Vietnam. Let’s say I hate Vietnam. Consider that more than 50,000 men of my generation died there, and more than that came home all messed up. People who have been everywhere, boast about their Vietnam vacation. Don’t know why: all they can do there is visit a few Buddhist temples … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Polymaths and Self-Creation
A way stands open into heaven, but none can enter the way except those who have heaven within them. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg It is very difficult to become an expert in one field. To become expert in two or more fields is extraordinary. Such a person is called a polymath … Continue reading
The Law of Success
Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born. ~ Nisargadatta, I Am That You are the “master of your fate” and the “captain of your soul,” by reason of the fact that you control your own thoughts, and, … Continue reading
Cosmic and Positive Law
Following the Cosmic Law. Continue reading
Dabbling in the Quantum World
Despite the incredible accuracy of its predictions and the elegance of its mathematical models, quantum mechanics still remains unintelligible. Continue reading
Pseudoscience and Scientism
In which we review several books by Wolfgang Smith on the metaphysics of science. It is impossible that these things should be understood by men in general, but only by the small number of those who are destined to prepare in one way or another the germs of the future … Continue reading
Mayday, Mayday
When Being is forgotten, there is only becoming. Knowledge of becoming alone is illusory because the ego superimposes its own interpretation onto the real. A real science will dispel such illusory interpretations in order to penetrate to the real. Continue reading
The Open Universe
Once in a while, it is useful to regard current events from the Traditional perspective. This week we ponder about whether the world is a computer simulation engineered by some evil aliens and how that might explain the political system in the USA. The World as Simulation We ought to … Continue reading
The Religion of Europe
[I] believe that the Christianization of Europe, the integration of Christianity in the European mental system was the most disastrous event in history that has happened up to this point — a catastrophe in the true meaning of the term. ~ Alain de Benoist, The Religion of Europe With that … Continue reading