Simon V.

Interesting–I’d never heard the f-sharp, centre of the earth connection though it makes perfect sense. It’s been my conviction for some time that the pyramids must be amplifiers.

Finding the tone of the centre… It seems they took their ‘meditation practice’ rather seriously in those days. Naturally they would also be fine places to perform…[Read more]

In Jane Roberts’ material that’s exactly how building of the pyramids is said to have occured (as you say, using vibration).

This might belong more to the philosophy section, but what you’re saying about enlightenment and special abilities like levitation makes me think of reading The Book of Five Rings (by the 16th century samurai, Miyamoto…[Read more]

Though my last limerick’s scansion was off,
As a drunk taoist at stiff rules I scoff;
Being of quick wit,
And terribly fit,
The chains of creed I easily cast off!

When a monk is caught napping,
It’s not enough to sound out with one hand clapping…
But I’d rather be a carefree taoist drunk,
Than a comfortably napping monk,
Receiving from the master a stern slapping!

That’s true. Stuck in his own ancestral stream perhaps. Also, he wanted to revive and renovate christianity; that’s one of the main reasons he split with theosophy–he didn’t like their mostly eastern focus. I’m not sure myself of his big emphasis on Christ’s role in history, but do sympathasize with the desire to rescue the western tradition from…[Read more]

Steiner (I recently read in a Wikipedia thing) was really stung by early Nazism. Steiner died in ’25 but warned that if the Nazis were to come fully to power it would mean dire consequences for Europe. A lot more prescient than many powerful intellectuals of the day…

I don’t know what the current Steiner scene is like, only that the Waldorf schools are still going strong (and I don’t know much about those). I just know that I like Steiner’s books, though some of it’s pretty cryptic, occult even. : )

I find Steiner very interesting, a cut above the rest.

There are some great new teachers. This is a good place here.
I also think the primal shamanistic emphasis is important. I like to ask: ‘Which came first, the guru or the student?’ The origin has to be in the deep dreaming mind, poetically giving birth to situations of spiritual tuition.

Yeah, I mean, the guy is definitely devoted to the dharma, you have to give him that.
: ). And I’d get my pals to give me glowing reviews too. “The most stupendous book ever written. I fainted through sheer joy.”

You’ve been a naughty buddhist eh? A new buddhist school should be started I think, based on the union of emptiness and naughtyness,…[Read more]

I find nothing fundamentally wrong with this statement, and much good.

I don’t remember exactly, but I was fond of the idea–which I seem to remember was in the first mission statement–of what I recall as an idea of openness to other points of view (i.e., different spiritual traditions not dissimilar to daoism). This attracted me at that time.

Simon

You know, the only thing I really want to say is: my heart is with with you all.

Hi Rex

No, I haven’t read it. But in general as I said I have found the Dalai Lama to be a competent teacher, who’s presentation is in keeping with other teachers; Tibetan lamas are extremely well-educated. The Gelugpa lineage, which he is the head of, is often considered (as you probably know) the most scholastically accomplished (though this…[Read more]

“(PS: Steiner comes partly from same tradition as Yeats does)”

I’ve just been discovering that… The Rossicrucian connection. And later chapters of what the Golden Dawn became partly adopted him as a teacher it seems, at least for awhile. Steiner is much more up my alley than the other theosophists (I realise he started his own…[Read more]

That’s a great video, thank you.

My first teacher is somewhat like that (not quite as impressive, though as a healer he has a great track record). I briefly took lessons from another guy in Stuttgart who sat on a chair with his legs off the ground, then pushed a student across the room using one finger. Can’t argue with that! Interesting fella.…[Read more]

Thanks Max

It’s really interesting to see Gurdjief in motion; I’d never seen footage of him before. He had a more relaxed style than I’d assumed he had–those intense eyes and many stories gave me this idea of someone like a kind of mannic, enlightened Groucho Marx (esoteric Groucho Marxism… Where do I sign up!).

And thanks for the…[Read more]

I’ve lately become suspicious of Krishnamurti, while still holding out some respect for him.

Spyrelx mentioned the obscurity of the statement concerning him.

Basically my suspicion rests on his tendency to reject everything that wasn’t his own particular mode of non-dwelling (not a foible entirely unique to him), which is (somewhat) like…[Read more]

Thanks very much for this link.
I have read books by G.R.S Mead on Gnosticism, and other authors. I had been planning to read Mead’s translation of the Pistis Sophia (I’d read a summary by him in his overview of Gnosticism), but it seems to me Hurtak’s would clearly be the better translation to read at this point (Mead was an excellent scholar…[Read more]

I agree. Things are so volatile now it’s tempting to lose track of the possibility of seeing things as ‘gamelike’–as in how children-cum-teenagers take things only half seriously, though I’m of course aware that situations with children and teenagers, namely schools, can in modern times be the site of the most awful grimness and violence. Still,…[Read more]

I can relate to that as my father was in Taiwan for a big earthquake. I could tell that for him it was like being at an amusement park. Wheeeeeeee!

That’s great to hear. But tornadoes and giant waves are only part of a healthy diet, so you might want to add a few earthquakes to aid digestion (even better than Jaegermeister). ; )