Turn and Become Like Little Children

“You can be confident that the “I” who thinks your thoughts and looks through your eyes and feels the world as the delicate nexus of your nervous system right now — that “I” will be like a little child again, scrubbed of all cognitive notion of being “you,” but with an intuition that will be giving you hints along the way.”

Perennialism Rediscovered

According to Armstrong, Sawyer asserts that the form of Perennialism espoused through the mid-20th century by Huxley, Houston Smith, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell, “rather than being a ‘new’ form of perennialism…is what the classic perennialists themselves had in mind.”

E Unum Pluribus

Nature is an inside with no outside. Our methods of observation and selective attention create the illusion of boundaries, but in order for Nature to have the meaning that naturalism gives it, we must also recognize its boundlessness. We must see at as the One from which many have come as opposed to an assembled collection of many.

Faith and Fear

This is a condensed version of an article originally published at Not Two. Faith is not the opposite of doubt. It is the absence of fear. Like “God” and “divine,” faith is one of those pesky words that seems to erode the meaning of any sentence where it is placed rather than contribute to it. […]