No tengo por qué justificar mi búsqueda de espiritualidad en términos físicos. Si me pides que lo haga, eso significa que no entiendes nada de espiritualidad. Henryk Skolimowski La forma de nutrir y sostener una «vida interior» (tema del anterior ensayo) ha estado presente en todo momento en la cultura y la sociedad humanas. No [...]
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 [...]
«Estamos soñando un mundo simbólico, sólo despertamos brevemente a lo que es real» Arthur Deikman, M.D. «Quien no está ocupado en nacer, está ocupado en morir» Bob Dylan Algo no está del todo claro…lo sientes…puede que lleves mucho tiempo notando esa sensación, esa desazón. Así que lo más probable es que sólo trates de [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOS & PURPOSE PART I – Implications of a non-local view of human consciousness Philosophers, artists, and scientists have been debating for centuries the questions concerning human consciousness: what it is and how it emerges. The question of human consciousness has also been at the heart of many mystical teachings, although these have [...]
CONSCIENCIA, COSMOS, PROPÓSITO Parte III - Consciencia Planetaria Emergente y lo que significa para nosotros El filósofo Karl Jaspers se refería al periodo entre los años 800 y 200 AC como la Era Axial. Fue un tiempo en el que, según Jaspers, en Persia, India, China y el mundo Occidental aparecieron nuevas y similares formas de pensar. [...]
