In an earlier blog, I introduced the most direct reality experienced by higher mammals, including, primates and human beings. As you will recall, the sensory organs transmit information from the external physical world to the sensory and associated cortices of the brain. The brain processes … Continue reading Why You Believe in Unicorns and Trolls
Month: November 2015
Type III Reality (caveat)
In my last blog, I stressed that legitimate enlightenment only occurs in persons having succeeded in experiencing Actuality via an unadorned ergoegotic center. Normally, the ergoegotic center unknowingly clothes itself with one persona after another; each persona reigning as sovereign for the moment, many oblivious … Continue reading Type III Reality (caveat)
Type III Reality
First, I would like to sincerely extend my best wishes for peace profound to each of my readers. Every writer hopes that his or her prose will be of use to at least one sincere seeker of Life, Light, and Love! Having briefly introduced type … Continue reading Type III Reality
Dreamtime (part III)
In the last blog, I promised to discuss the multiple manifestations of 'bare observing' during our dreamtime and their importance for personal inner growth. After a person begins studying dreams, he or she will notice that the focal point from which each dream is experienced … Continue reading Dreamtime (part III)
Dreamtime (part II)
Happy Thanksgiving to every seeker, new or old: Today, we continue our investigation into the operation of the ergoegotic center during wakefulness, meditation, and REM (and likely in NREM) sleep. As you recall, the ergoegotic center, or working ego, is the central point of our … Continue reading Dreamtime (part II)
Type II-Dreamtime(part 1)
As discussed earlier, enlightenment cannot be fully appreciated, understood, nor appropriately applied in mundane life until an aspirant has first tasted the peach of immortality and the bitter pear of the human condition. The Buddhists often refer to this event as "entering into the stream." … Continue reading Type II-Dreamtime(part 1)
Type II Reality
Today, we continue our discussion of the several types of mental realities (or realizations) found in human beings. Yesterday, we dealt with pseudo-physical or type I reality. i.e., the virtual 'physical' world experienced by each of us. This virtual world is created by the central … Continue reading Type II Reality
REALITIES v. ACTUALITY
Type I Reality: Dear Friends, for the next few posts, I shall address the difference between what is called reality and that which is Actual. By Actual, I am referring to the essential, underlying structure of this universe--as it is, in and of itself. Such … Continue reading REALITIES v. ACTUALITY
Enlightenment
People spend endless hours trying to describe the 'state of enlightenment' and failing to reach common agreement. In a sense, the situation is similar to trying to describe the taste of a perfectly prepared chocolate souffle served with Creme Anglaise to another. To succeed, one … Continue reading Enlightenment
MY BUTTERFLY FAIRY: A PROPOSAL OF LOVE
21 October 2008 A woman's warm heart is a summer butterfly, wings painted in so many different hues, brilliant sky blues, luscious, Crimean red wines, radiant yellows lilies, moonless nights on the Steppes, harvest orange pumpkins, early Spring daffodils, each crafted by careful, angelic brush … Continue reading MY BUTTERFLY FAIRY: A PROPOSAL OF LOVE