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)©

I wish, each and every seeker of truth, a Good New Year. May all experiences prove necessary for completion of your journey. As it is New Year’s Eve, I want to remind you that these blogs are not meant ‘to be easy to comprehend’ or … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (1)

Before moving onward and upward to Paul Federn’s psychoanalytical innovations, I need to digress and discuss an extremely misleading and harmful concept introduced in the writings of post-Aryan India, the Mediterranean Neo-Platonists, the Occidental Hermeticists and Alchemists, the 19th century Spiritualism Movement in England and … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Most Dangerous Concept of Self

Today, we continue our emergent evolutionary physicalist analysis of how people came to possess the feeling of being an independent self–both physical and aphysical. We start from biology so to avoid foolish and unfounded speculation as to the nature of the personal self. For seekers … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Autobiographical Self