Divine Beings, Responsibility and Evil
An open divine or suhul being is one who has reached that stage of sumarah or surrender wherein experience is defined openly, which means there is no...
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Divine Beings, Responsibility and Evil
An open divine or suhul being is one who has reached that stage of sumarah or surrender wherein experience is defined openly, which means there is no...
OPEN PSYCHOLOGY
The cultivation of the essential and the examination of the difference between the Principle of Nature (T'ien-li, Principle of Heaven) and human selfish desires are things that...
DIVINE ORDERS
Thales, one of the early Greek philosophers, observed that "all things are full of gods," i.e., often overlapping ordered unions of consciousness serving large visions where...
JUSTICE DEPENDS ON CONFRONTATION AND ALL THINGS HAPPEN BY CONFRONTATION AND REALITY
The Greek philosophers are deceptive. It is easy to take the position that they are almost contemporaries...
AND DELUSION REIGNS
In our attempt to reinterpret and perhaps make some sense out of Greek thought and philosophy, we start at the most obvious beginning, Homer, and, in particular, The...
December 7, 1996
Dear Dr. Hawking:
I was pleased to read your debate with Roger Penrose called "The Nature of Space and Time" in Scientific American. I find your vision interesting but have...
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and...
Basically, too little, too late, for all of it.
As for your somewhat surprising defense of hedonism, pleasure itself is not a problem but seeking it constantly is. We fear it can result in not...
We have good news
And bad news
First the bad news
There's only one place:
Here!
There's only one time:
Now!
Here, Now, Forever...
Sorry everybody. As for Sandra Ingerman, I got it from her secretary that she just does rituals now. I don't know beyond that.
Thank you for your comments. My beef with Harner was that he basically asked for the letter and for shaman-type experiences through a colleague but then never responded to the letter and left me...
In proper terms my hometown is Solo in Surakarta, Jateng, Indonesia, in that I bow to my experience and feeling for the people of my city. They are very dear indeed to me; I am their servant -- nya...
As you can see, my confrontational path did not start in Java: my initial M.A. research proposal in 1975 was "You Make Me Sick," a study of the effects of intercultural, cultural and interpersonal...
The questions that were always foremost to me and that all those who love eventually have to face are: "Where are you?" or "Why did you leave me?" or "What went wrong?" or maybe "What hit me?" or...
August 18, 1996
Dear Dr. Harner:
I am now reading The Way of the Shaman which I obtained from Prof. Roberto Baruzzi, who you met at the meeting in Brazil. I find your work stimulating and...
June 10, 1997
Dear Ms. McKennitt,
Heaven knows I've listened to you often enough so I feel that I know you. You and your sweet, loving voice oft bring tears to my eyes. My other favorites are...
September 27, 1999
A "big dream" (unusually vivid and colorful) wherein the Fury induction process I began with Magali in 1993 was completed. Now that her spirit has settled, it was my job as...
Dear Pak Wondo,
Mamayu hayuning bawana
Mamayu hayuning jagad
Serve the harmony of the world
Serve the harmony of the universe
I am writing to report in after some 16 years out...
I'm an anthropology PhD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980). I'm retired but I have a couple of websites that keep me busy. One is a discussion of Javanese mysticism (Sumarah), which...
For some centuries now the western world has been making every effort to destroy itself by forcing undue appreciation out of everybody else on the planet. The hard-sell pretended superiority the west...