Magic Never Died – The Sacred is Still Alive

By |2018-01-03T17:55:14+01:00July 11th, 2017|Blog, Essays|

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 [...]

A NEW MAP

By |2018-01-03T17:55:14+01:00December 22nd, 2016|Blog, Essays|

‘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 [...]

Seeking Our Mythologies – Where Did All the Gods Go?

By |2018-01-03T17:55:16+01:00July 19th, 2016|Essays|

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 [...]

Neon Tribes – Ecstatic Highs, Techno-Trance & Digital Gnostics

By |2018-01-03T17:55:17+01:00July 19th, 2016|Essays|

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 [...]

Modern Fictions – How the Sacred manifests in Chaos, Superheroes & Outer Spaces

By |2018-01-03T17:55:17+01:00July 19th, 2016|Essays|

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 [...]

CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOS & PURPOSE – PART III

By |2018-01-03T17:55:17+01:00February 11th, 2016|Essays|

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 [...]

CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOS & PURPOSE – PART II

By |2018-01-03T17:55:17+01:00February 11th, 2016|Essays|

CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOS & PURPOSE PART II – Living in a Coherent Cosmos   If our observed universe is indeed a projection – of ‘in-formed’ – from an underlying conscious matrix (as suggested by the hologram theory), then we would expect the universe to manifest a marked degree of order. That is, there would be evidence [...]

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