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Sokal’s Hoax

Submitted by Dr. Daria on Monday, July 22, 2019 10:44 AM

Sokal’s Hoax

Image by Ryan McGuire from http://Pixabay .com "I love a good hoax and this one was a beauty. In 1996, Alan Sokal, a New York University physicist and self-described “academic leftist,” composed an essay that was basically a bunch of bologna. He sent it to the left-leaning “cultural studies” journal Social Text. Perhaps the best description of Read More…

Holy Hyperlink! – The Bible And Its 63,779 Cross-References

Submitted by SALAAM – Presider on Sunday, July 21, 2019 3:03 PM

Holy Hyperlink! – The Bible And Its 63,779 Cross-References

Image by charlotte_202003 from http://Pixabay.com I’d like to share with you one of the most amazing and awe-inspiring images I have ever seen. Period. Professor Jordan Peterson recently and brilliantly described the Bible as the first “hyperlinked text,” that is, the first text that complexly references itself throughout the entirety of its structure in a Read More…

The Reversal Of Consciousness

Submitted by Ali Rasha Bey on Saturday, July 20, 2019 2:07 PM

The Reversal Of Consciousness

Image by Dayron Calero from http://Pixabay.com To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has in the mental field. It may be said of someone that he hasn’t much mental, vital or physical capacity, that his possibilities are Read More…

Dangers Of Soul Retrieval

Submitted by Rhondo on Friday, July 19, 2019 10:07 AM

Dangers Of Soul Retrieval

Image by Pete Linforth from http://Pixabay.com By Mary Shutan Part 1 Eloise (fake name, of course) contacted me because she felt something was really wrong spiritually. She had received a “soul retrieval” from a “shaman” six weeks prior, and since then her life had gone rapidly downhill. She was initially interested in soul retrieval because Read More…

Self-Deprecation

Submitted by Dr. Dave on Thursday, July 18, 2019 10:02 AM

Self-Deprecation

Image by hansiline from http://Pixabay.com SELF-DEPRECATION is one of seven basic character flaws or “dark” personality traits. We all have the potential for some self-doubt and social anxiety, but in people with a deep sense of personal inadequacy, Self-Deprecation can become a dominant pattern. To deprecate (or depreciate *) something is to belittle it or downgrade it. That is, to reduce Read More…

When Science And Religion Converge

Submitted by Dr. Arati Mishra on Monday, July 15, 2019 9:58 AM

When Science And Religion Converge

Derivative Images Science has not replaced religion, nor does it have the potential to do so. The two amount to different ways of knowing: objective and subjective; ascending and descending. Science pursues knowledge of the objective realm in an effort to master it, while religion pursues knowledge of the subjective realm in an effort to Read More…

Towards An Informationist Post-Metaphysic

Submitted by Gestalt on Sunday, July 14, 2019 10:11 AM

Towards An Informationist Post-Metaphysic

https://media.giphy.com/media/QqS8lFawhFYCk/giphy.gif I recently came to the conclusion that the universe is not fundamentally composed of ‘matter,’ at its explanatory bottom, but rather of information, indeed a field of infinite potential and informational possibilities that manifest as finite actualities within universes constrained by discrete sets of physical constants and universal principles (“laws of Nature”). “Matter” and Read More…

Lightning Crashes

Submitted by Joseph Morningstar on Saturday, July 13, 2019 9:00 AM

Lightning Crashes

Derivative Images With a thundering and ominous boom, lightning struck fiercely into the redwood tree nearly splitting it in half. As the rain continued to pour, Mother Eagle knew she had but one chance to save her offspring before the tree would no longer stand. She knew they all had at least another 30 years Read More…

Putting The “Hedge” Back In Hedge Druidry

Submitted by Niamh Ardgall on Friday, July 12, 2019 4:36 PM

Putting The “Hedge” Back In Hedge Druidry

Image by Kathleen Handrich from http://Pixabay.com What do you think of when you hear the words, "Hedge Druid?" Someone who works with the green and growing things, of working with nature, with the seasons and the tides? Yes, Hedge Druidry is that—working to find our place within nature, to find where we fit into our Read More…

Six Obstacles To Ceaselessly Abiding In The Feeling Of Being

Submitted by SALAAM – Presider on Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:36 PM

Six Obstacles To Ceaselessly Abiding In The Feeling Of Being

http://pixabay.com “There will be periods of frustration; there will be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would hamper your Sadhana (practice) and an atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come what may, just throw everything aside, don’t bother about anything and continue your abidance in the ‘I am’ with all earnestness. The ‘I am’ would Read More…

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