The philosopher will read that there is a form of knowing, called “Intuition”, that is superior to what the rational mind can achieve. This is the case in metaphysics from India, to Greece, to Egypt, to Arabia, to the Scholastics. Yet the veil blocks his understanding so he ignores it. Intuition is akin to “seeing”, not to “thinking”. Continue reading
The young widow Lucy Muir moves to the English seashore only to discover that the cottage she rented is haunted by the ghost of Captain Daniel Gregg, a rough and tough seafaring man. Undaunted, she develops a relationship with him. His crude and direct manners contrast with her prissy upbringing. Continue reading
As he had never spoken so harshly to me before. Perhaps it was the sun and the alcohol. I have known him a long time, sometimes closely, but often with gaps in our relationship. Usually, we are so close that it seems that we share the same brain, but use it for different thoughts. Continue reading
The corporeal world is, in Tradition, composed of five basic elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. That means that the world was understood in a qualitative, not quantitative, sense. As such, they represent the different densities of matter. Continue reading
The principal aim of Socratic activity may be to improve the soul of the interlocutors, by freeing them from unrecognized errors; or indeed, by teaching them the spirit of inquiry. Continue reading
There is no point being concerned about conscious experience, although everyone is. All your pains, anxiety, depression, fears, and so on, do not matter for the world process. Neither do your joys, pleasures, and so on. They are merely epiphenomena of biological processes. That view is eerily reminiscent of those Gnostic sects that believed we were created by an evil demiurge. The Demiurge trapped our consciousnesses in a world of matter, with no ability to escape. We are doomed to suffer in matter, yet unable to do anything about it.
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The world is represented in consciousness which may alter over time. Continue reading
When one is incapable of doing metaphysics, it is certainly better not to be concerned with it. Positivism seems to us still much preferable to the rantings of pseudo-metaphysics to the rantings of pseudo-metaphysics. The greatest mistake of the German orientalists is therefore to be unaware of their incomprehension, and to carry out works of interpretation which have no value, but which are imposed on all of Europe and very easily succeed in doing making themselves authoritative Continue reading
Normally, the worlds of the jinns and humankind do not interfere with each other, but that is not always the case. Some believe that the jinns invade our world just to trick us or frighten us. Actually, it is the other way around. We have invaded their world. Continue reading
Once upon the time, three kingdoms developed: the jinn, the insects, and the vertebrates. They each inhabited their own worlds, with blurry boundaries between them. Hence, their respective worlds often collide, creating tensions. The jinns are the most ancient beings, followed by the insects and then vertebrates. Continue reading