In The Romance of the Rose, there is speculation about what would happen if animals had free will. Perhaps the hens would refuse to lay eggs, the cattle would conspire against the cowboys, and your dog would stop sniffing your ass. Continue reading
Category Archives: Musings
Tempted by Calypso
If you come upon a pure contemplator, ignorant of the body, banished to the innermost places of the mind, he is not an earthly, nor a heavenly animal: he more superbly is a divinity clothed with human flesh. Continue reading
Odin Sightings in Europe
As I suspected, Loki informed me that he was a member of a religious cult that has been practicing the old ways without interruption from the dawns of time. But I did not expect what came next. With unconcealed excitement, he told me that recently there have been a significant number of Odin sightings in Sweden! Of course, I enquired about the reason for that. Continue reading
Neo-Vedanta, Evil Spirits, and Don Quixote
Everyone else is like Don Quixote fighting imaginary battles in a world they no longer understand. Continue reading
Do Dogs Go to Heaven
The complete man actualizes all his possibilities, not just the angelic ones. The spirituality of the monks has dominated religious discourse, although it is not necessarily appropriate for the man living in the world. It is to these latter men that the future belongs. Continue reading
The Succubus and the Houri
A frustrating aspect of spiritual development is backsliding, i.e., reverting to the same unhelpful states of consciousness repeatedly. I can go for days with a mind as still as the ocean on a calm summer’s day, interspersed with periods of bliss. Yet, unexpectedly, a demonic attack occurs, usually in that twilight state between waking and sleeping. Continue reading
Idea Density
It is not the man who chooses the way. It is the way that chooses the man. In other words. the question of a choice does not arise, since the finite cannot choose the Infinite: rather the question is one of vocation, and those who are “called” to use the Gospel expression, cannot ignore the call without committing a “sin against the Holy Ghost” any more than a man can legitimately ignore the obligations of his religion. ~ Frithjof Schuon Continue reading
Polymaths and Self-Creation
A way stands open into heaven, but none can enter the way except those who have heaven within them. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg It is very difficult to become an expert in one field. To become expert in two or more fields is extraordinary. Such a person is called a polymath … Continue reading
The Open Universe
Once in a while, it is useful to regard current events from the Traditional perspective. This week we ponder about whether the world is a computer simulation engineered by some evil aliens and how that might explain the political system in the USA. The World as Simulation We ought to … Continue reading
Ship of State
Propaganda must become as natural as air or food. It must proceed by psychological inhibition and the least possible shock. The individual is then able to declare in all honesty that no such thing as propaganda exists. Continue reading