Zen skanner!? I am surprised over and over at the way the new age legacy is mutating and probably dissipating/ I am not a guru or meditator source of advice but the idea of meditating ten to forty five minutes a day sounds comical. I recall in the seventies when the Tibetans arrived a typical … Continue reading Zen slammer! (pronounced like red queen in the movie saying ‘off with their heads’) long meditation sessions – Google Search
The Last of the Zoroastrians
A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. Source: The Last of the Zoroastrians
Another email exchange
I am having an email exchange (a short selection below) with a student of the eonic effect. I am fortunate for such intelligent interest: the broad range of responses is little but blank stares. In… Source: Another email exchange, the eonic effect: free will issue, art in clusters, super hi tech of the future? – … Continue reading Another email exchange
An email exchange over the eonic effect …Decoding World History (version 5xa)… – 1848+: The End(s) of History
Here’s a new update of Decoding World History, the book is reaching completion. The book will increase its length with an abridged version of WHEE. I recommend a close look. Unfortunately, th… Source: An email exchange over the eonic effect …Decoding World History (version 5xa)… – 1848+: The End(s) of History
An email exchange over the eonic effect
I am not a prophet of doom, but the eonic effect and its history require a close look at the apparent failures of civilization. I recommend a study of the whole model and its associated literature/… Source: An email exchange over the eonic effect: is human civilization a failure in cosmic terms? – 1848+: The … Continue reading An email exchange over the eonic effect
Buddhism and the demonic
This review (previous post) has a possible flaw in its statements about Buddha and the Demon Mara. It is one thing to consider naturalism but what is the status of ideas of demonology. Secular humanism is almost fanatic on such a subject. But the legacy of Buddha requires more than kneejerk naturalism. Even so, humanists … Continue reading Buddhism and the demonic
Review of Wright’s ridiculous ‘Why Buddhism is true’ at Amazon
(will provide link later) This book is a strange puzzle. Why would anyone write such a book so far outside the spirit of Buddhism? The answer seems to be that the new atheists can't dispense with Buddhism as they do with theism, but must strip it of any or all elements that create nightmares in … Continue reading Review of Wright’s ridiculous ‘Why Buddhism is true’ at Amazon
Paths versus paths: garbled info
https://gurdjieff-con.net/?s=raja+yoga It might be clear why this blog has often acted 'crazy': one mainstay after the other collapses nad you move on to the next fiasco. Forty years down the drain. Every path was a failure or bogus or both. The core buddhist doctrine falls apart as bad history. You have to start over from … Continue reading Paths versus paths: garbled info
Now you tell us, forty years down the drain…//Anatta / anatman. Original Buddhism from Doctrine. Negating the “no-soul” nonsense part 1 – YouTube – The Gurdjieff Con
This is more than interesting: it is useful and a lifeline out of 'new age' confusion Brand #x: just locating teaching is almost impossibly difficult and full of surprising surprisings: multiple decades after buddhist musings over atman, anatma, we see it clearly claimed the whole game as verbiage in books is garbage. Over and over … Continue reading Now you tell us, forty years down the drain…//Anatta / anatman. Original Buddhism from Doctrine. Negating the “no-soul” nonsense part 1 – YouTube – The Gurdjieff Con
