Tag: consciousness
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What should be the role of Black people in this time of political despair?
Just because the world puts empathy for Black people at the bottom of the rung, does not mean we ought to expect the world to put empathy for us at the middle-point or highest rung. No doubt, empathy everywhere by everyone is needed. Just because empathy for Black people is at the bottom of the…
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Alan Watts on Dying and the Ego: How We Define Ourselves
Alan Watts on dying and the ego and the harmony in the chaos of life. “So, I would never invoke spooky knowledge, that is to say that I’ve had a private revelation or that I have sensory vibrations on a plane which you don’t have. Everything is standing right out in the open. It’s just…
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Readings from Isis Unveiled: Man’s Yearning for the Proofs of Immortality
The narration explains some theosophical ideas of H.P. Blavatsky from her early major work, Isis Unveiled on the source and possibility of thaumaturgical powers in man. MEDITATION ON READINGS FROM H.P. BLAVATSKY’S ISIS UNVEILED TITLED “MAN’S YEARNING FOR THE PROOFS OF IMMORTALITY“
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Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven Principles of the Human Constitution
The concept of the Septenary Constitution describes two distinct beings in man: (1) The spiritual (or monadic); and (2) the physical (or somatic), i.e.— “The man who thinks and the man who records as much of these thoughts as it is able to assimilate.” †In Theosophy, the spiritual constitution is termed the “imperishable triad.” It…
The American Minervan 