I discussed Kabbalah many years ago on the Institute’s international radio show, Mind, Brain, and Body with the Good Doctor. If you go to our website, you will find several recordings from the show and some written discourses concerning Kabbalah from my perspective.  The Rav … Continue reading Kabbalah and Psychology ©

Having a scarcity of time to produce new blogs during the day, I found myself composing this blog in my dreamtime. So here goes. Fate or Destiny? A perpetual conundrum, “What are they? How do I know which is which? Does it matter? Is human … Continue reading Chaos Theory, Fate, and Destiny

A very long time ago, when I was four or five years old, I lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Every day, I went across the street to my neighbor to have red beans and rice during the midday meal. But, most of the time, … Continue reading A Visit to Judgment Hall

During my university career, I transferred a few times. I had begun at Brown University with a merit-scholarship and stayed my freshmen year. As they did not have a program in Chemical Engineering, I transferred to UC Santa Barbara for a quarter and then to … Continue reading The Golden Dawn, the AA, and Beelzebub

I feel that I owe everyone a blog, so while I am involved in legal stuff, I will fill you in with some curious stories of my life.  All absolutely true outside of memory lapses.  I trust you all shall be entertained! Before and after … Continue reading Starry, Starry Night

Hello friends.  No time for a path of study blog, just something new on the website.  I have added an autobiographical section recalling some of the strange experiences I have lived through.  Such experiences being part of another life I entered in very early childhood … Continue reading NEWS FLASH

Some Readers may be of the opinion that I spent an inordinate amount of time explaining: [1] the reality of self and self-ascribed operations, [2] common misconceptions as to the existence of individualized, permanent spiritual selves, [3] the operational meaning of the psychological term, ego, … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychospiritual Significance

It came to pass, on this first day of the New Year, that Adam, as has been his custom since his Awakening, partook and ate another apple from the Tree of Knowledge. No longer did he call it the Tree of Knowledge of Good and … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Riddles of Adam and the Nāgárāja©

I think it prudent to briefly summarize what we have discovered. First, the social belief impressed upon us since early childhood, i.e., that each possesses a single, unified, homogeneous, and isotropic Ego, or Self, is inconsistent with conscious observation of our mental function, awake or … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (3) ©

Every day is a blog day, are you not pleased? Yesterday, I modernized portions of Freudian terminology. In particular, I introduced Federn’s terms, ego and object cathexes. Today, I we move deeper into analysis. I am not fond of how the word ‘ego’ is utilized … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (2)©