“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.”
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.
I don’t see what is so hard or controversial about observing that the telos or purpose of the universe is to grow purpose like a garden grows crops. We won’t find the purpose by digging into the ground, but nothing at all could grow without that ground. It should also be clear that the crops are not separate from the ground — they are extensions of it in a very real sense — and so the garden is not two things, ground and crops, fused into one. It is one thing that is all of a piece.
I think most of us who aren’t rabid fundamentalists are small-c cafeteria “catholics” in the original sense of the word –”universal”– and I mean that in a very good way. We are all pursuing the same Truth, diffused through our diverse human cultures in a wide variety of ways, and we sample from the whole selection available to us and choose what resonates the most.
#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 […]
Q: If there is no such thing as free will, then why do we make choices? (Posted in a Facebook group 06.25.23) A: I’ve always found it amusing that people need to categorically discard whichever side of the free will-determinism debate they are certain is wrong, then wrestle with conceptualizations of a reality that clearly […]
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 […]
Noesta Aqui 