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Friday, February 27, 2015

The Institutionalization of Man's Depravity

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Although Truth inheres in man -- in our spiritual substance -- it seems that this substance is susceptible to corruption. That would be the...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

I Dream of Gagdad, Gagdad Dreams of Madonna

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The ? in the margin tells me that this must be a place where I depart from Schuon . Either that, or it signifies an idea which requires fur...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

God is Proof that Man is Intelligent

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I don't like to read more than one chapter a day with Schuon. Not that he's difficult per se, just that it's too rich. Dense. ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

If Atheists are Correct, Only God Knows

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Seems like most people who encounter Schuon either accept his program entirely or else reject it out of hand. There's very little middl...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

A Science of Religions?

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I'm reading this new translation of Schuon's In the Face of the Absolute . I've read all of his books, but these new editions -...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Three Shades of Magic

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In Letter III, our Vertical Pal (VP) says that "magic" may be understood as "the power of the invisible and spiritual over t...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

There's a Party in My Brain!

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We're discussing practical means of achieving vertical and horizontal integration. Importantly, these are things we should take the tim...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Pocket Guide to Magically Rewiring Your Brain and Knowing God

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Our vertical friend suggests that what we call "tradition" is the residue, so to speak, deposited by mystical experience. Thus...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Original Syntheses and the All of Man

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Now that I'm playing the Glass Bead Game between interpersonal neurobiology and Meditations on the Tarot , I see that there are links e...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

It Takes One(ness) to Know (the) One

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Well, it's President's Day, a quintessentially postmodern helliday in which the federal government compels schoolchildren to conflat...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Cosmic Defense Mechanisms and the IKEA Brain

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Yesterday we discussed the bilateral integration of left and right cerebral hemispheres. But there is also the vertical integration of hind...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Whole Brains vs. Halfwits

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We're in the midst of a discussion of the various domains within the brain-self-relationships trinity that need to be integrated in orde...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

End Psychic Segregation Now!

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Yesterday we spoke of various types of integration that result in the release of human potential. Two of the main types are vertical -- brai...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Respect Your Monkey! Honor Your Reptile!

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As we've been saying, one of the principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is that mind, brain, and relationships represent an ir...
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Monday, February 09, 2015

On the Genetic Transmission of Original Sin

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As you know by now, one of the purposes of this blog is to try to make traditional religion relevant to intelligent people in the modern wor...
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Friday, February 06, 2015

The Sad Divorce of Mr. Substance and Mrs. Process

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The bad nose: sinus infection. The good nose: antibiotics are on the way, but not until my 2:30 appointment. Not that uncomfortable, but...
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