The deceased are around us and participate in our lives. Even our thoughts, desires, insights are influenced by them. We have to be aware of this. Continue reading
The Others
Dreaming with the Animals
There are four kingdoms or realms of Nature: the mineral, plant, animal and human. The human realm incorporates all four realms in its being. Continue reading
The Hour of the Morning Star
I am Matter although I go by many names: death, sleep, turmoil, night, darkness, void, abyss, silence. I was there at the primeval chaos. From nothing, I created everything, then the rhythm of night and day, the dark and the bright. Yet the Silence remained. There was no experience, no one hears the sounds. Just the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. Continue reading
As the Sun Brings Fire
Love also comes out of the night, hidden by darkness, so it is a surprise when it suddenly appears. It lights up knowledge. Then there is the knower and the known. Esoterically, knowing is the same as being, so in cosmic love, the knower and the known are One being, entangled throughout time and space. Continue reading
Heaven and Earth Are Silent
English esoteric translation of Petrarch’s Sonnet 164. Continue reading
Hidden Meanings in Texts
There are four levels of meaning in an esoteric text: Literal, Allegorical, Moral, Anagogical. How to unravel the true meaning. Continue reading
Intergalactic Columbus Day
Things seem to be going well until they reach their teenage years. They having been unknowably taking a daily drug that reduces libido and helps with anger management. A couple of the boys discover the purpose of the drug, which they then stop taking; by mimicry, they all stop taking the daily dose. This decision brings violence and sexual desire into the ship for the first time. Continue reading
Buridan’s Donkey
A free choice is one made by the conscious subject or person. The free person knows the good and acts on it. That is our real and true nature. Freedom, therefore, is to act in accordance with our true nature. Continue reading
Knights of Light
Without that guiding light, a knight stumbles in the darkness or wanders aimlessly like a lion on the savannah. Ahriman is the supreme bureaucrat, who strives to organize everything to keep it in its place, to subdue it, to confine it to logic. Artificial intelligence is his dream and our nightmare. Continue reading
Homunculi and Virtual People
The artificial creation of human-like life has been a pre-occupation: from the golem of Hebrew folklore, to the homunculus of the alchemists, Frankenstein’s monster, and more recently, the androids and robots of science fiction. Continue reading