“The strongest and most evil spirits have hitherto advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping-passions – all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan […]
from a recent exchange about disclosure: I don’t see it as just some isolated niche issue. Having got more and more into this issue the past years, I say with confidence that the presence of other intelligent beings is foundational to our whole existence. I don’t think one can even understand ancient or recent history
(letter excerpt 2/2019) The book I am starting on is tentatively called “Occult Semiotics” and will follow in the footsteps of academic interpretations of the occult such as that of literary critic Owen Barfield, who tried to give Steiner a fair hearing in the academia of his day. My purpose is a bit different. Rather
pdf click here drive file here “The reality was the myth. In such cases the interior events will always predominate, regardless of the physical facts, which are only symbols of those events.” -Seth (Jane Roberts)1 “The fact that we occupy an ever larger place in time is something that everybody feels.” -Marcel Proust2
Liberalism started as being about freedom, equality and fraternity, but it took off in different directions. The dominant form these days is very conservative in the sense that while it may talk about “institutional racism”, it is always framed as a collection of individuals. I call that conservative because it emphasizes individual responsibility and that
Aurobindo’s concept of the “physical mind” may seem pretty strange. It doesn’t mean anything technically physical but rather the level of the mind “closest” to the physical body that translates the mind’s most basic repetitive habits into the constitutional qualities of the vital and physical bodies. Though there are certainly a lot of connotations one
“..the One is not the transcendent that might contain immanence but the immanent contained within a transcendental field. One is always the index of a multiplicity: an event, a singularity, a life.”–Deleuze No one should deny the experience of transcendence, but I think it is important to think of transcendence as relative and relational. Derrida
Discussing what Jung said of Rudolf Steiner, that he had “not the slightest use for him”, John David Ebert says this attitude sums up what is wrong with myth studies these days, and I would say it also points to what is wrong with the New Age. Ebert’s point was that people like Steiner aren’t
Mr Ebert is right to point out the death denial driving Wilber’s project. You can even see it in tragic form in the book he wrote about his wife dying of Cancer. In that book, he goes out of his way to deny any kind of emotional bond transcending death, dismissing it as superstition. The whole
(the following is extracted from a letter on the role of thinking vs. devotion) Sri Aurobindo said, “There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility” This should be put in context. We are talking about a guy who spent a great deal of time in philosophy and culture. Is he here refuting his life’s
