AN INTERVIEW PROPOSITION DECLINED.

Despite being told it would help circulate my book, I declined the following invitation received today, and my reply: INVITATION:…

NOT BEING FAMOUS

QUESTION: Why aren’t you famous? ANSWER: In my mind, I am! LOL! But seriously, I started this blog and published…

QUESTION: You have been criticised for using the term “mere humans” in your posts. Does this indicate bias, bigotry, or prejudice against…

Ron Krumpos kindly nudged me to be a little more forthcoming. So, as suggested, I now have a ‘spiritual’ profile…

Can Individuality Survive? QUESTION: You suggest you are a ‘pratyeke’ in a buddhist meaning of your mystical experiences of Reality,…

By kind permission of Anthony Garner zenothestoic.com Release from the shackles of a mind made prison, sought for so many…

QUESTION: How do you know your mystical experiences of Reality are true? ANSWER: Because of the ineffable but undeniable, implacable,…

See below for a review of a paper sent to me by Academia.edu: “A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF TRANSCENDENT STATES ACROSS…

THE CASE AGAINST REALITY, 370 pages, pub. W.W. Norton. By Dr Donald Hoffman, cognitive psychologist, University of California. According to…

“Stanzas Concerning an Ecstasy Experienced in High Contemplation” By St. JOHN OF THE CROSS I only come across Dr. Saint John…

QUESTION: You have said Reality does not use names. ANSWER: True, Reality does not use names. In Ultimate Reality, where…

By Anthony Garner, zenothestoic.com (on Weltanchauung): Sitting in the garden listening to the rain. There may be no more to…

Some buddhists say buddhism cannot be understood without direct experience. This is certainly true of the Reality of all existence…

In this excerpt from his excellently illuminating book, The Fifth Dimension – An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm, Dr Hick…

‘Faith in mind’, is a poem attributed to the Third Chinese Chán (Zen) Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan. It is shared here…