O Awaken not the Beauty until the time comes Inscription in Chartres Cathedral Let’s be honest on the matter – as a dominant species on this planet we haven’t been very nice of late to the feminine. And by the word ‘feminine’ I don’t just mean the woman – or even the body of [...]
God is alive, magic is afoot God is alive, magic is afoot God is afoot, magic is alive Alive is afoot, magic never died Leonard Cohen The sense of the sacred does not require any image of the gods. There will be no more gothic cathedrals built to exalt humankind to the heavens; no more [...]
Over the course of history the world has been appearing and disappearing to us. We have attempted to map the world, to frame and understand it, as it slips out of one hypothesis or grand narrative into another. The world as we know it has gone from being flat to round; from being the center [...]
‘It is the tragedy of our time that the average individual learns too late that the materialistic concept of life has failed utterly in every department of living.’ Manly P. Hall We have entered times of incredible change, readjustment, and upheaval. There are many contrary forces pushing through our diverse societies and straining to [...]
‘I am not of the East, nor of the West/Not of the land, not of the sea/Neither of this world, nor of the next/My place is placeless, my trace traceless.’ Rumi What the opening quote by Rumi hints at is that our true dwelling place does not exist in any physical location but [...]
I do not have to justify my quest for spirituality in physical terms. If you ask me to do so, it means that you understand nothing of spirituality. Henryk Skolimowski The way of nurturing and sustaining an ‘interior life’ (the subject of a previous essay) has been present throughout human culture and society [...]
‘We are dreaming a symbolic world, only briefly waking to what is real’ Arthur Deikman, M.D. ‘He not busy being born, is busy dying’ Bob Dylan Something is not quite right...you feel it…you may have experienced this feeling, this nagging, for a long time. So you most probably just try to ignore it and [...]
And so, in mythological terms, what is to happen now? All of our old gods are dead, and the new have not yet been born Joseph Campbell Stories emphasize the operations of divine immanence in the world Jonathan Black In the beginning…there were many myths of creation. Many of the great spiritual traditions told [...]
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness Woody Allen It often feels like many people today are coming around from chloroform, as if waking up from some drugged sleep wherein post-modernity was invented as an in-joke and then left lying around like a left-over alien jigsaw puzzle. Our new cultures are re-forming after their post-modernity heyday [...]
The virtual topographies of our millennial world are rife with angels and aliens, with digital avatars and mystic Gaian minds, with utopian longings and gnostic science fictions, and with dark forebodings of apocalypse and demonic enchantment Erik Davis …All our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but [...]
‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ Arthur C. Clarke ‘What the universe becomes depends on you’ Henryk Skolimowski Magic may not be what we think it is. In fact, it may be very much more. It may in fact be everything, and everything that is not magic simply is not. In other [...]
CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOS & PURPOSE PART III – Emerging Planetary Consciousness & What it Means for Us Emerging Planetary Consciousness The philosopher Karl Jaspers referred to the period from 800-200 BC as the Axial Age. It was a time that, according to Jaspers, new yet similar ways of thinking appeared in Persia, India, China and the Western world. He [...]
