What is virtual is not our reality within the Principle, but only the awareness we may have of it as manifested beings, which is obviously something quite different; and it is only through metaphysical realization that this awareness of our true being, which is beyond and above all becoming can become effective, that is actualized in the awareness Continue reading
Some say iguanas are a myth. Others dismiss them as a conspiracy theory. A few know the truth. Continue reading
The spiritual adepts were inner-world adventurers of the highest daring, the Tibetan equivalent of our astronauts—I think it is worth coining the term ‘psychonaut’ to describe them. They personally voyaged to the furthest frontiers of that universe which their society deemed vital to explore: the inner frontiers of consciousness itself, … Continue reading
the realities comprising the external world are not immediately or directly given in consciousness, but are abstractions of them in varying degrees performed by the external and internal senses, and transformed into knowledge of the external world by means of intellectual construction. Continue reading
A mathematician, a carpenter, and a physicist walk into a bar. The carpenter is touching and admiring the bar’s woodwork. The mathematician is siting and thinking, while the physicist was busily doodling on his napkin. After a while, they struck up a conversation. Continue reading
Venus is the source of the power of taste. She governs the stomach whence emerges the ability and taste for eating and drinking. ~ Picatrix Continue reading
Anyone who has acquired a certain clairvoyance does not simply feel that one thing is correct and another incorrect, but he suffers actual pain when confronted by illogical thinking, and a sense of well-being in connection with clear, transparent thinking. Continue reading
One thing that struck me about Descartes, and I’ve remembered it my entire life, was that he was allowed to lie in bed in the morning. He retained that habit throughout his life as he believed it was “conducive to intellectual profit and comfort.” I’ve never had that luxury until the last dozen years or so. Since I am now blessed with insomnia, I awaken early in the morning. I just simply lie still with nothing but my thoughts and prayers. Every now and then a revelation comes to me and a post is born. Continue reading
Once you can survive, once you have achieved some consistency in your life, then what is your best life? Are you driven by the desire to think, to know, to understand, to serve the Good? Or do you prefer to “feel good” by increasing your serotonin levels? Continue reading
Contra all the psycho-babble online, Plato understands “true love” as the willingness to die for one’s love. Orpheus was therefore a coward because he could only sing about it. Continue reading