Note: This originally was part of the notes for an open class in non-duality, given in the summer of 2005. In The Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler writes: Not only scientists, painters, and musicians find it often difficult to convert their ideas into verbal currency, but writers too. Even H. … Continue reading
Galileo: Stop the Presses
Somewhere in Italy, in the 17th century. One beautiful morning, Giovanni is sitting out on his patio, sipping on some espresso and reading the newspaper. His wife comes out of the house and begins hanging up some clothes to dry. “Listen to this, Maria,” said Giovanni. “On the front page, … Continue reading
Nuclear Energy, Evolution, the Unconscious
When science changed its methodology from the description of phenomena, to the search for occult causes, it then made its three most significant discoveries of modern times. These are Nuclear Energy in Physics, Evolution in Biology, and the Unconscious in Psychology. Continue reading
Science at a Standstill
Science seems to be at a standstill after centuries of revolutionary developments. Physics is stuck with incompatible theories – Relativity and Quantum Mechanics – and remains far from a unified theory. Biology is no closer than Darwin to explaining the origins of life and the actual mechanics of the evolution … Continue reading
Conscious Participation in World Events
Meditation leads to conscious participation in objective world events. Continue reading
Violence and Revolution
The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world … Continue reading
The Seven Enigmas of the World
The physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond proposed seven riddles of the world that science cannot answer and most likely never will. Continue reading
Have you ever drunk the Silence?
Concentration without effort … is your life tossed to and fro by random events, thoughts, feelings? Or do you live life consciously? It begins with Silence … Rene Guenon claimed that at times when the authorities had lost the inner meaning of things, initiates would pose as jugglers or horse … Continue reading
Man Makes himself Happy and Immortal
Theory of the Will In The Key of the Mysteries, Eliphas Levi, who was a devout Catholic at least in his own mind, promises to harmonize reason with faith, and to exhibit true religion with such characters, that no one, believer or unbeliever, can fail to recognize it; that will … Continue reading
Scire, Potere, Audere, Tacere
Scire, Potere, Audere, Tacere To know, to be able, to dare, to keep silent ~Zoroaster Nature does not open the door of the sanctuary to anyone. In these pages, the uninitiated will perhaps discover some proof of a genuine and positive science. I do not however, flatter myself that I … Continue reading