With respects to Alan Watts, mystic extraordinaire who said “Universe”, not “Reality”.
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DEFINITIONS OF MYSTICISM
There are so many defiinitions of mysticism today. Is this an indication of Reality at work, creating a growing popularity…
AN ASCENT INTO REALITY
Reblogged from zenothestoic.com “Words from a Garden” by Anthony Garner. Why is there something rather than nothing, he mused. Does…
REALITY
QUESTION: I’ve heard you say “we’re not ‘wired’ to know the whole of Reality yet’’. I think I understand, but…
“Humans were spiritual beings long before there were religions … religions only came 10,000 years ago.”
Nicholas Humphrey is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and…
SCIENCE’S FUTURE IN REALITY?
I was watching a couple of scientists talking about matter and reality when I realised they only knew of matter…
A NAUGHTY CHALLENGE.
A Wikipedia essay on the history of human mystic experience says: “Since the 1960s scholars have debated the merits of…
THE ‘GOD’ AND HUMAN DELUSION.
Fascinated by the discussion between four notable atheists on YouTube, Ben Stiller, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, I…
FOUR EARLY REPORTED SEMINAL DISCOVERIES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MYSTIC PHENOMENA
One of psychologies’ earliest practitioners was Dr. William James PhD., (1842 – 1910). He established psychology’s department at Harvard and…
BE REALISTIC ABOUT MYSTICISM!
The following essay is excerpted from Ron Krumpos’ free PDF book, “The greatest accomplishment in life – five traditions of…
Upanishads, Vedanta, Bhagavad Ghita flawed?
From the perspective of my mystic experiences of Reality, (MER), The Upanishads, Vedanta, Bhagavad Ghita are flawed. One way or…
INFINITY
Infinity is a human word. It’s too small, doesn’t come anywhere near to describing Reality. Even mystics don’t have a…
CONSCIOUSNESS “A DEEP MYSTERY”
Being interviewed on consciousness on the YouTube podcast ‘Closer To Truth’, Arkansas University professor Paul Davies, an English physicist, said…
SELF EXAMINATION?
SOMETIMES A poem by Thomas S. Jones, Jr. ‘Across the fields of yesterdayHe sometimes comes to me,A little lad just…
MYSTIC EXPERIENCE NOT “ECSTATIC”
The word ‘ecstacy’ has been used to dismiss the mystic experience of reality, MER, as merely human. If my multiple,…