Category: Philosophy
Shamballa and Simplicity – part 2
In an historical time when everyone has an opinion, frequently devoid of truth and often framed by rhetorical extremism, it can be challenging to form a reasonable thought. Cogent ideas are…
Creative Living in an Anxious Time
A period of transition from an old age to a new, causing upheaval of familiar traditions and assumptions, inevitably evokes uncertainty. The incrustation accumulated over the past 2,000 years isn’t easily…
The Battle for the Soul of Humanity
Humanity has faced many battles in the long course of its evolution. Physical warfare, from one perspective, has shaped the modern world. By force of arms, nation states, and the panoply…
Shamballa and Simplicity – part 1
At the deep center of mankind’s consciousness there lies a tenuous foothold into a vast land of simplicity. This sacred place is a hidden landscape pulsating with eternal truths. This is…
Envisioning a Better World through Creative Sharing
Living in a time of transition when the energies of the past age are withdrawing—a stage in which the lower aspects are now more visible than their higher, and the inflowing…
Imagination As a Tool for Compassion
The blog post “Imagining Other Worlds” considered the challenge of gaining insight into the worlds that animals, birds and insects inhabit. As the recently published book An Immense World—How Animal Senses…
Thinking with the Heart
“Great is the Mystery of Thought” and when thought begins in the heart we uncover the birthplace of joy. Thinking with the heart is both an art and a science. Creative…
Imagining Other Worlds
A new book which is receiving a lot of attention, An Immense World – How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong, focuses on the concept of…
Great is the Mystery of Thought
“Great is the mystery of thought”, wrote Alice Bailey, an eminent spiritual philosopher, in the last century. It is one of four profound mysteries, so we are informed, revealed to those…
The Doctrine of the Heart
From the holiest spheres of divine Life upon our planet to people everywhere, the flow of love ceaselessly flows, touching the hearts of all those who respond in some capacity. Quietly,…