Simon V.

I think everything is available at once, all methods, all abilities, and at the same time there is endless room and need for discipline, for development, for refinement, and for artistry.
It’s like G. I. Gurdjief said: A cow can be raised to a higher state of being (his lingo, but let’s say to ‘the qigong state’). What will happen? It will…[Read more]

I think everything is available at once, all methods, all abilities, and at the same time there is endless room and need for discipline, for development, for refinement, and for artistry.
It’s like G. I. Gurdjief said: A cow can be raised to a higher state of being (his lingo, but let’s say to ‘the qigong state’). What will happen? It will…[Read more]

This article might satisfy some of your desire for official scientific support for his experiments:

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/acupunc.php

This article might satisfy some of your desire for official scientific support for his experiments:

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/acupunc.php

Got your tummy rumbling did I?
I was just making a dumb joke : )
Although, if you think of it, the cosmological systems of the different wisdom traditions do tend to discuss things in terms emanating from a sun-like, subtle or formless, creatively fertile centre, to increasingly solidified/materialized forms, and then as cycling back again as a…[Read more]

Got your tummy rumbling did I?
I was just making a dumb joke : )
Although, if you think of it, the cosmological systems of the different wisdom traditions do tend to discuss things in terms emanating from a sun-like, subtle or formless, creatively fertile centre, to increasingly solidified/materialized forms, and then as cycling back again as a…[Read more]

I find these to be really fascinating observations that remind me of a dream I had recently, which I view as a combination of digesting several lines of study: reading Henry Corbin, who I quoted in the subject line–“Psychology is Cosmology”; Isabelle Robinet, author of “Taoism, Growth of a Religion”; my meditation practice; a particular message…[Read more]

Very good book that speaks to and supports much of what Michael just said here (and which cites Mae Wan Ho) is “The Biology of Transcendence” by Joseph Pearce, usually known as ‘the guy who wrote The Crack in the Cosmic Egg’ (not to be confused with my lesser known ‘poached egg’ theory of the universe).

Very good book that speaks to and supports much of what Michael just said here (and which cites Mae Wan Ho) is “The Biology of Transcendence” by Joseph Pearce, usually known as ‘the guy who wrote The Crack in the Cosmic Egg’ (not to be confused with my lesser known ‘poached egg’ theory of the universe).

Excellent points.

I think an emphasis on, “just do the simple technique, that’s all” is generally the ticket in terms of sidestepping the discursive mind; whatever comes up, just return to the technique, period. But different people have different experiences of what is simple–some find complexity simple and simplicity difficult, and vice…[Read more]

Excellent points.

I think an emphasis on, “just do the simple technique, that’s all” is generally the ticket in terms of sidestepping the discursive mind; whatever comes up, just return to the technique, period. But different people have different experiences of what is simple–some find complexity simple and simplicity difficult, and vice…[Read more]

The teachers of buddhism I am most attracted to all point out somewhere in their work that translating “sunyata” as “emptiness” was an error of early Western translators that we have never recovered from/are still suffering from.

Herbert Guenther in fact does define sunyata as “openness”, and D. T. Suzuki seems to focus most, in his exposition…[Read more]

The teachers of buddhism I am most attracted to all point out somewhere in their work that translating “sunyata” as “emptiness” was an error of early Western translators that we have never recovered from/are still suffering from.

Herbert Guenther in fact does define sunyata as “openness”, and D. T. Suzuki seems to focus most, in his exposition…[Read more]

Before this thread disappears into the nether regions–I recommend Mind Race by Russell Targ and Keith Harary (Targ is one of the scientists who worked with Ingo Swann and others in the original remote viewing experiments for the American intelligence community). A practical guide and quite an enlightened agenda (I think they pulled a fast one on…[Read more]

Before this thread disappears into the nether regions–I recommend Mind Race by Russell Targ and Keith Harary (Targ is one of the scientists who worked with Ingo Swann and others in the original remote viewing experiments for the American intelligence community). A practical guide and quite an enlightened agenda (I think they pulled a fast one on…[Read more]