The dynamics of existence is a power play between the actors. All sentient creatures believe they are the center of the universe and see other creatures as objects. Every creature…
Most traditions that have been imported from the east place consciousness right at the heart of their sales pitch. Gurdjieff was particularly inclined to do this, with talk of higher…
The God Word Many intelligent people are not particularly fond of the God word. It has all kinds of baggage, and not least a lack of critical thinking. But I’m…
It would seem that people adopt one of two attitudes as they get older. And by older I mean the last quarter of their lives. Some people, having seen that…
Right at the heart of you and I is desire. Thus says Spinoza, Schopenhauer and the Buddha. It only needs brief observation of the inner state to see this is…
I want to know how God created this world. I’m not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His…
We live in a world of transient things – the 10,000 things as Lao Tsu called them. Things are put together, reach some sort of maximum capability, and then fall…
There is an inherent blasphemy involved in writing about “the void” since it is inevitable that we try to give shape to that which has no shape. Essays of this…
The Terror Gurdjieff talked openly about the “terror of the situation”, or as Ernest Becker put it: “To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of…
People who are old enough to remember the pop music scene in the seventies may remember a pathetic song called “That’s the Way God Planned It” by Billy Preston. This…
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