At the age of five I was sent to Catholic school and almost immediately got into trouble with the priests and nuns who ran the parish...
In his preface to Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Lewis Carroll writes: Human beings might sometimes become conscious of what goes on in the fairy-world...
When I worked at a psychiatric clinic in my youth, I convinced the supervising nurse at the hospital to hire a friend of mine...
To begin I should make it clear that Meher Baba considered himself an avatar, and that what I have to say here is partially an attempt to understand what that means. In simple terms an avatar is a god who became a man, rather than a man who, through efforts in his life, evolves into a god. This does not…
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Another characteristic of the hasnamuss is that he appeals to the lowest in his followers, and in doing so destroys whatever higher possibilities they have.
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Aristotle classifies friendship into three types: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and perfect friendships…
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Dreaming is just a particular way that consciousness organizes experience; it can be used by higher centers to communicate spiritual truths, or it can be used to express our buffered fears and confusion…
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Besides Gurdjieff, no one in the early days of the movement did more to support, clarify and promote the work than Ouspensky…
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Psychologically an ordinary man is not prepared for such an intense flow of energy, and the resulting manifestations (symptoms) are what we call the manic phase of bi-polar disorder.
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When people react negatively to inner work, it is often because ideas of conscious evolution threaten to expose the lies they tell themselves.
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As a rule, we either don’t think about how identity will organize itself without a body, or we assume we will be given a soul after death in the same way we were given a body at birth. But to believe that a soul can be given is a misunderstanding of what a soul is…
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