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Primacy of the Mythic
Ok, so now for the more complex stuff… Logos in theosophical thinking, ordered thought, perception and reason, is impersonal, universal. You share in it as a process, just like breathing air is something you share in common with the rest of life around you but it is not your own creation. It is the seat…
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Types of Personal Views
Today the talk is about monism which is the view that everything either is derived from a single thing, or identical to that single thing. Many forms of metaphysical thought actually qualify as monistic in structure. Some examples from the east being Taoism and Wuxing. Well, I suppose from the view of monism all metaphysical…
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Hitch in Monistic Thinking
The core hitch in monistic thinking is (if there is only one thing) why do there appear to be many things? And if there was only one thing that gave rise to many other things, how did this happen and what does it mean to individual things? Fragmentation? Like light through different planes of a…
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Breathing God Into the World
The brain only does one thing, unify or summarize. It’s a one trick pony really. This has even been proven in the lab, even complex tasks are processed as unitary pictures or representations. So our brain pushes us to monism? Indeed it does, and since this is what it naturally does it’s fine to let…
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Mayan Glyphs
Unfortunately, there isn’t a great deal to say on the mayan glyphic system. First off, it would be mistaken to call it an alphabet. It had no such structure or interrelationship between glyphs. The glyphs themselves can’t even properly be compared to modern alphabetic characters. If anything, their linguistic structure would be better described as…
Category: World Belief
On my spiritual path I have studied many world beliefs. While I don’t claim to be an authority on them, I will share some of what I’ve learned in the ‘World Beliefs’ category. Perhaps they will inspire you to seek further.
Those who abandon their faith are not faithless. Perhaps quite to the contrary, their faith has given them the strength to abandon trappings. Religion from the Latin religio meaning practice. We will all have practices. I was very devout myself, and in my devotion I found I could no longer devote myself to that creed. My faith isn’t weak. It motivates my seeking. I don’t subscribe to any specific faith. I find truth in my personal experience which does loosely label me a Gnostic. Many Gnostic schools say the logos indwells our sun itself.
The Buddhas wisdom was put into the context of the greater way as was the only way it could be, but in fact the symbolism is at best intuitively true. The spheres exist within us. Wisdom is simple. It is the sign of true knowing. Not if they can spout arcane jargon, but can they take an arcane topic and make it abundantly clear to the uninitiated.
I will state that these beliefs discussed are not necessarily my beliefs.
“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religious.” Friedrich Nietzsche