It’s curious that even atheists and neo-Darwinists are sometimes willing to believe that the human race was seeded by aliens or even that we “inhabit” a computer simulation created by more advanced beings; in other words, the implication is that the world was designed, albeit not by God. Continue reading
This young woman understands Eve’s curse, probably better than most. Woman’s sex drive is so strong in order to overcome that reluctance to pregnancy. In most if not all materially advanced countries, the birth rate is becoming precipitously low. Continue reading
A cult is easy to find, but hard to leave. An esoteric center is hard to find but easy to leave. Continue reading
During the Kali Yuga, what is the point of being conscious enough to observe it? Continue reading
Memory does not consist in a regression from the present to the past, but on the contrary in a progress from the past to the present. … pure memory is a spiritual manifestation. Continue reading
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Continue reading
Not all men are in the same condition, and all are not led or disposed to a knowledge of the truth in the same way. For some are brought to a knowledge of the truth by signs and miracles; others are brought more by wisdom Continue reading
What a shame that one must give up life. I was finally getting used to it. ~ Charles Peguy If you do not meditate on death upon waking in the morning, your entire morning will be wasted; if you do not meditate on death at noon, your entire afternoon will … Continue reading
Chuang Tzu makes clear that one can admit the principle of a universal regulator (from which the principle of every unity, family, people, etc. derives through participation) but on condition that one does not make a distinct personal being out of what is intended “as an influence without a comprehensible form” Continue reading
The universe of Being is the tour de force of physics and mathematics. However, it is a universe without love, without life, without consciousness, and without moral life. Those are all mysteries without explanation for science. Nevertheless, the scientist himself experiences all those things. Continue reading