June 19, 2012 Dr. Michael Jon Kell© WILL YOU LOVE ME ALWAYS? Calliope, will you love me always? Will you love me when others don’t, when all the world is aflame with hate, when all and everything seems against me? Will your heart hold true, … Continue reading Poems of the Heart Series (2)
Author: Baron Jean-Michel
Who am I? A physician, scientist, inventor, philosopher, poet, sculpture, friend, lover, partner, father, adventurer. All of these and more. Life is a wonderful sojourn in a miraculous, universal theatre with comedy and tragedy, where the unexpected is in all ways just ahead. A play where each can choose to be an active, conscious participant or simply a sleeping bit player. A play where perhaps one can attain permanence and return again and again to the Great Play joined with his or her matched half, or die like a dirty dog in the streets of Cairo. A play where an awakened couple can bring relief to the less enlightened players by decreasing unnecessary suffering. A play which delights in finding persons with magnetic centers and a thirst for life eternal. A play which has been and will remain center-stage for a very long time.
Poems of the Heart Series (1)
Happy Yuletide everyone! May we all share this ancient holiday season of love and thankfulness with our truest friends and functional family members. Still, we must not forget that the Yuletide Holidays are not joyful for those without friends or family, have very limited finances … Continue reading Poems of the Heart Series (1)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.9)
Today, we will finish with this particular subject. More detail will be provided as part of the Study Course for the Institute. A donation site via PayPal was initiated today to accept donations of any size. The Institute is a nonprofit entity organized by an … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.9)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.8)
Before commencing today’s blog, I need to interject a methodological comment. While, the general intellectual contents of the blogs follow a linear sequence, in actuality, a portion of the information presented is nonlinear and multilayered. Sufficient linearity is provided so the seeker ‘will not stray … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.8)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.7)
Reviewing the ‘data’ portion of this blog series (typical of religions and metaphysics), we find a significant variance as to the ways God is conceived by different cultures. While, such variance may appear to present a problem in solving definitively the ‘God Conundrum,’ in truth, … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.7)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.6)
I have received a number of insightful and useful comments pertaining to my recent blogs from members of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, as to my development of reality employing modern scientific thought, rather than deferring to the mysticism of Plato, Philo of Alexandria, Plotinus and … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.6)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.5)
Today, we conclude the descriptive phase of our analysis of spirituality; as such provide the cognitive data necessary to postulate useful and meaningful conclusions, as to what human theological systems can tell us about spirituality, i.e, is spirituality [1] an evolutionary psychological-CNS process for dealing … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.5)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.4)
Hermeticism: The theological school we will discuss herein, is Hermeticism. Hermeticism comprises the purported teachings of an Egyptian Initiate known as Hermes Trismegistus (the ‘thrice-great’). Though, many claim that the teachings of Hermes predate recorded history; others, as AMORC, state that such teachings arose early … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.4)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.3)
Vedic Schools Differ: All orthodox schools of Hinduism – Nyaya, Vaisesika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa and Vedanta – accept the foundational premise of Vedas and Upanishads that "Ātman exists.” Jainism too accepts this premise, though it has its own perspective on what that means. In contrast, … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.3)
The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.2)
Evolution of the Vedic Schools of Thought: One of the most ancient and long enduring theological systems is found in the Indian subcontinent. Such theology, modern Hinduism, is the offspring of a merging of [1] a foreign religious system, the Vedic philosophy of the Aryans, … Continue reading The Changing Face of Spirituality (Part 3.2)