Category: Other People

On Friendship

by williampage | | Conscious Evolution, Consciousness, Esotericism, Essays, Essence and Personality, Friendship, Other People, Reincarnation | 2 |

Aristotle classifies friendship into three types: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and perfect friendships…

Shakespeare, Gurdjieff, and the Idea of Good and Evil

by williampage | | Essays, Gurdjieff, Other People, Self-Remembering | 9 |

When Shakespeare created Iago, he imagined a character that had never been seen in literature: a brilliant and sophisticated devil…

Emotions

by williampage | | Essays, Other People, Transformation | 4 |

Once in my role as a counselor at the psychiatric clinic where I worked as a young man, I spent an afternoon talking to a new mother…

Esotericism and Morality

by williampage | | Essays, Other People | 0 |

If esoteric practice is about creating higher consciousness and not about being good so that you will be rewarded in an afterlife, doesn’t that give students of esotericism the licence to be selfish and to take advantage of others?

Being Present and Other People (External Consideration)

by williampage | | Essays, Other People | 0 |

The point I want to make here is that inner considering is based on a delusion, the delusion that other people spend any amount of their time thinking about us.

Download and Donate

Details Preview Download

My Mystic Initiation

You can set your own price for My Mystic Initiation. Your generosity will assist me in paying to keep Be Present First up and allow me to write new articles. Available in epub and pdf formats.