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.”
The relationship between avocado and flesh, or avocado and pit, is an example of non-duality. (What’s less immediately clear but just as true is the non-dual relationship between flesh and pit, because of their shared “avocadoness.”) It doesn’t mean the flesh doesn’t exist or the pit is an illusion — it simply means they don’t exist independent of their “interbeing” with and within avocado.
The negation of something is not the same as the assertion of its ubiquity. Imagine two identical rooms; one of them is completely full of oxygen, and the other is completely empty of it. You have to spend ten minutes enclosed in one of them. Does it make a difference which one you choose?
#2: Energetic pattern = energy + will This principle was lifted directly from the title of Part Two, “Soul = Dust + Breath,” with the terms converted to a layperson’s vocabulary. The translation “soul —> energetic pattern” was covered in the first principle. The next part, “dust —> energy,” could also be “dust —> material,” […]
#1: The body is water; the soul is the wave Thanks to dualistic thought, there is a widespread misconception that the soul is something added to a body, in the words of Wendell Berry, “like a letter into an envelope.” Western religion has done as much to complicate this concept as to clarify it, suggesting […]
Uncreated Light made incarnate — that is the individuated will within all created things and beings. That is the true “I am.”
BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE RIDE Back to Part One / Part Two “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only […]
SOUL = DUST + BREATH Back to Part One “Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.” Martin Buber Now, let’s take stock of where we are. (Or at least, I will; you are free to do the same in your place and time.) It is the […]
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.
If your ego is the main character at the center of your unique “I am” story, your soul is what your character experiences as it starts to suspect that it is being played by an actor. This experience makes no sense in the context created within the walls of the stage, but something tells you nonetheless that it’s true, that when the curtain falls on this stage, you, the actor, will persist.
Noesta Aqui 