Philosophical Speculations

If time is unreal or Eternal, then reincarnation is an artifact of duality. And, from the East, Ramana denied reincarnation.

Why can it not make sense tribally and in the sense of ancestor worship without notions of reincarnation? And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents , that he was born blind? Clearly they make distinction between the individual man and the ancestors (the pare...

Probably the greatest difference between exoteric and esoteric (gnostic) Christianity is the question of Karma and Reincarnation. In certain sense it was an evolutionary necessity for most of the Western souls to pass through the pedagogical school of one-lifetime-only paradigm. This places a certa...

Probably the greatest difference between exoteric and esoteric (gnostic) Christianity is the question of Karma and Reincarnation. In certain sense it was an evolutionary necessity for most of the Western souls to pass through the pedagogical school of one-lifetime-only paradigm. This places a certa...

Happy Easter! A son of man went down into hell, took all our bad karma with him, and clung to the good with such fierce spirit and love that it couldn’t hold him down. Even with my small experiences of hell, I can see that this is an unimaginable triumph, it’s like the Battle of Thermopylae, but th...

Yet now, because of that modern era, we are also in a position to experience and know that wisdom even more deeply within our individual souls. Much like this guy: “ Were not our eyes profoundly of the sun How could they behold the light? Were not our strength from God's own being won. How could we...

Simon - I think you have mistaken an evolution of ideas-values for an evolution of the collective subconscious itself, the latter being what I am referring to as the process revealed in scripture. It is an evolution of how humanity has experienced the world. This process is discussed in the writing...

Re: The secret of synchronization [/i] Yes, who knows ? ... There are times when I think there is no friggin' way enough individuals are ever going to synchronously awaken from the maya spell on a large enough scale to create the tipping point into a collective phase transition, and then other time...

So his smile at the "decrease in brain activity" should be steadied by the fact that he believes we could and probably should very well eventually see an increase. I'm a bit lost in the thread, so I'm not sure who 'he' is but I'd say that the empirical results will continue to reflect the...

I feel like the old gelding sitting in the barn. [/i] Likewise, corporeally speaking, at times I feel like that lame gelding. Other times I feel like this 'I', that ipseity which one is in essence, is somehow non-locally displaced, dispersed in space, while observing that diaphanous form ~ like Kun...