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Nonduality Revisited
The latest Closer To Truth newsletter featured interviews with Gino Yu and Jeffery Martin exploring the topic of Non-Duality. While their effort to present this topic is laudable, it seemed to me that Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Gino Yu talk … Continue reading
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Tagged closer to truth, consciousness, Gino Yu, Jeffery Martin, lawrence kuhn, nonduality
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The Soul’s Choice
[Editor’s Note: This material was revised in November 2018 and integrated into a PDF booklet, Christian Meditations on the Tarot: The Soul’s Choice] The choice is ours…Towards a Contemplative Model of Christian Faith & Spiritual Formation… We are of two … Continue reading
A Thought Experiment
Note: This experiment was originally published as A Spiritual Exercise on Yeshua21.Com. A Thought Experiment: Imagine, if you will, your brain setting on the table in front of you, complete with the necessary blood supply, temperature control, and appropriate “wiring” … Continue reading
The Ten Thousand Things
[Editor’s Note: The material below is taken from the current listing of Robert Saltzman‘s new book, The Ten Thousand Things, on Amazon.Com.] Quoting Robert K. Hall: When I imagine speaking to a person who for the first time opens the pages … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, book review, nonduality, Robert K. Hall, Robert Saltzman, The Ten Thousand Things
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Did you ever have the feeling you were being watched!?
Many thanks to Facebook friend Robert Saltzman for sharing these lines from one of Carlos Castaneda’s books together with the photograph, below (the tarot cards were my idea). The thing to do when you are impatient is to turn to … Continue reading
Posted in Nonduality, The Perennial Philosophy
Tagged being unto death, Carlos Castaneda, death, don juan, Robert Saltzman
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Gnosis and the Active Intellect in Aristotle
“This does not mean that at one time [the active intellect] thinks but at another time it does not think, but when separated [from the body] it is just exactly what it is, and this alone is deathless and everlasting … Continue reading
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Tagged active intellect, angst, aristotle, despair, existence, gnosis, hard problem of consciousness, nihilism, passive intellect, rudolf steiner
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Salvation History or the Phenomenology of Spirit?
Part of the confusion we run into when discussing the sometimes conflicting claims of scripture and theology, on the one hand, and science and history, on the other, has to do with what (if anything) God intends to accomplish in … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Vision, Nonduality, philosophy
Tagged Christ, creation, evolution, faith, gnosticism, myth, natural selection, reason, salvation history, telos, transcendence
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Getting to Know Gnosticism
Note: This “post” is part of a longer essay which has been posted as a separate “page” under the Nonduality menu: Gnosticism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly–which is, in part, a response to those who from time to … Continue reading
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