When the Girl from Ipanema walks by, all the beach boys sigh. Just like the gravitational fields, she creates a distortion in the noosphere. As the psychic waves emanate, they affect the voyeurs in various ways. Some daydream of a day with her, some of a night, a few of a lifetime. Do they owe her a Brazilian Real for the sweet 15 minute daydream she gives them? Continue reading
The Knight’s final journey, following his Psychopomp.
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His intellectual life becomes so fascinating and pleasurable, the memories of sweet love begin to fade. Instead, he longs for a higher connection. His desire is to share ideas on music, literature, poetry, history, metaphysics, and the like. Procreation reappears as intellectual creation at this stage. Continue reading
Diotima, in the Symposium, describes the ladder of ascent to the knowledge of the eternal idea of Beauty. Sometimes in order to know where you are, it is necessary to know where you were. Since the ideas are eternal, prophecy is outside of time. Prophecy therefore can be a revelation of the past as well as of the future. To forget the past is to have no future.
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Know, truly, that I have never written a word in my books except under the direction of the Holy Spirit. In all men is found, by the same nature, a triple unity which, among the righteous, is moreover supernatural. ~ John of Ruysbroeck Continue reading
Forgetting is analogous to death so remembering is life giving. Some memories arise spontaneously. Others take some effort. One should not stop at intellectual memory. It may take more effort to expand that memory to deeper levels. This essay has been some time in planning. The events mean nothing to you, but each time I’ve relived them, there is more intensity. Humor may be used to hide it. Nevertheless, over time, a common thread has been revealing itself to me. Continue reading
Contemplation of God without formal support is not possible… Since therefore some form of support is necessary, the best and most perfect kind is the contemplation of God in women. ~ Ibn Arabi Continue reading
For the benefit of all things, but without charity nor pride, he is limited to concentrate in himself an intact Majesty … this sovereign Majesty is not distinguished from pure Power nor from integral knowledge … An unknown Autocrat, he does his work without anyone noticing it, and this work is accomplished without affecting in any way the one from which it emanates. Continue reading
Plato famously claimed the knowing is remembering. In particular, we have forgotten the world of essences, that is, the ideas in the mind of God; Hence, knowing an essence is just a recall of that which was forgotten. A fortiori, knowledge of the Self, our essence, and our destiny must also be a form of remembering. But memory of the forms takes place in stages. We understand more as we rise up through the states of being. Continue reading
Love is not a choice. Either you love or you don’t, but it is not a decision. You can decide to pursue a relationship with someone. It is a choice to sleep with somebody. You can choose to get married. But to love is not a choice. The choice a woman has to make though is to let go of herself — let go of “subjectivity”. Continue reading