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Science, Spirit, Energy and Matter
Alchemy can be applied widely, and it’s more a way of thinking or philosophy rather then ‘stir a pot and out comes gold’ as it’s usually portrayed. The association with making gold was narrow even in the heyday of alchemy. However, some say philosophy is just a subjective stance and has no substance in the…
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Does Matter Matter?
What matters is what you did and what you learned, not what you had. Now what you have can influence what you are able to do, so that seems a good guideline for getting. So matter matters to the degree it is energy. If you go rescue a friend or loved one from being stranded…
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We Matter
We need to feel like we matter. A well respected psychologist by the last name of Maslow said this. He was the first to look for a model of healthy, high functioning mentality. They think “mattering” is something you have when you have money. Yet we live in a system that can only really function…
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Matter And Spirit
Recent scientific research appears to substantiate a static material reality, neither entropic nor chaotic, inflationary nor collapsing. Matter suggests that you have no heritage, no lineage. You are your parents, and your grand parents, and all those who came before. We are all manifestations of an unimaginably deep latticework of expression having no beginning or…
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Mythological Matter
There are a great many forms of life on our planet. Some we know and feel we understand well. Some we know and know that we don’t understand well, and all across the world there has been a tendency to name animals after what we consider mythological creatures. Our consciousness allows for more creatures than…
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First Matter
There is a lot of religious symbolism that came to be admixed with alchemical lore as was perhaps inevitable. Much of Christian Gnosticism is heavy with alchemical symbolism, and with that connection, we move on to the philosopher’s stone itself. It could be created in two forms, a white stone and a red. The white…
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Mind Merged with Matter
We have discussed the karma of action without attachment to outcomes. We have discussed the yoga of devotion that absorbs the self and thus liberates it. Gnani yoga is a bit more like the scientific ideal without the materialistic bias. In Gnani, through contemplation of ancient wisdom, meditation and speculative exploration of our experiences of…
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Matter is Paint
I cannot help pondering whether this “persistent consciousness” would continue after physical “death.” Matter is a substructure, not a superstructure. Material existence is the “atomic” basis of a higher reality, and really only one such basis. Yes, so material death doesn’t end it. Matter is paint, a mirage over the underlying reality. Yes, it’s invisible and…
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Before Matter
Like an endless kaleidoscope of being, each nexus of potential being is a being unto itself just as each cell of your body is a being unto itself. The reason they are now able to write algorithms that lets them predict market behaviour, and fairly accurately, is that there is a cohesive being behind the…
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Matter of Life or Death: Hawaiian Legend
There is a [Hawaiian] legend about a teacher. So powerful she had power over life and death of her students. Her helper was a lizard. Both could change shapes and sizes. A lesson of that legend is what you teach the young is of such importance it is a matter of life or death. Ah…
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Body as Matter
To continue with the body as matter model… You don’t have a single channel of information, you have many. But even so, even with them all operating at the same time and in the same identifiable medium, would that explain human behaviour? Sound vibrating some of the systems, light triggering photo-response in others, heat triggering…