In Integral Zen I learned about the big mind and the little mind metaphors. The Stroke of insight is talking about this exact same distinction of 2 different parts of the mind, largly associated with the hemisphere’s of the brain. Often called the left brain and the right brain. Sign Up Now! […]
This was a great video about concepts that Eckhart Tolle discusses, which I also find within the teachings of Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Integral Theory, Hermeticism, etc. Eckhart Tolle is great at describing these concepts, and I felt this video does a nice job of summarizing. We become emotionally anchored to thoughts and this fuses them […]
“Color’s five hues from th’ eyes their sight will take; Music’s five notes the ears as deaf can make; The flavors five deprive the mouth of taste; The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange, Sought for, men’s conduct will to evil change. Therefore the sage […]
“Favor and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind). What is meant by speaking thus of favor and disgrace? Disgrace is being in a low position (after the enjoyment of favor). The getting that (favor) leads to the apprehension (of losing […]
How to Change Your State of Vibration “There are degrees of Love and Hate, and there is a middle point where “Like and Dislike” become so faint that it is difficult to distinguish between them. Courage and Fear come under the same rule. The Pairs of Opposites exist everywhere. Where you find one thing […]
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”—The Kybalion. In this post we are going to look at 2 of the principles of the Hermetic teachings and see how we can apply them to our own lives. The 2 principles we are going to look at are the principle of vibration and the principle of polarity. […]
“At the beginning we may as well consider the question so often asked by the neophyte, who desires to be informed regarding the meaning of the word “Plane,” which term has been very freely used, and very poorly explained, in many recent works upon the subject of occultism. The question is generally about as follows: […]
Chapter 11 “The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form […]
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.” – Mediations
