Tagged with Mind

Materialism is the doctrine that only matter is real. Hence minds are in brains, and mental activity is nothing but brain activity. This assumption conflicts with our own experience. When we look at a blackbird, we see a blackbird; we do not experience complex electrical changes in our brains. But most of us accept the mind-within-the-brain theory. (more)

Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self-managing the imagination, to defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, and sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate and nourish it. Knowledge of this is essential to the story of human survival into the 21st century. (more)

The new, pervasive communications media have pushed us into what mystics have called the etheric realms. Without proper tools and preparation, we can become trapped in a maze of electronically magnified addictions and fears. We must call upon the protector archetypes as we embark on our cyber-shamanic initiation. (more)

Current research is supporting the phenomenon known as out-of-body experiences. Here are a few techniques to try it out yourself.

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[Daemonic Dispatches] • "He prays for it, and so he gets it." No, that isn't a line from The Secret. It's a line from Henry Thoreau, just nine words of the over six million he penned in his extraordinary journal. In many ways those nine words encompass Thoreau's central thought and discovery. Despite his distaste for fortune-finding, Thoreau had an uncanny aptitude for discovering treasure. (more)

Macular degeneration is a progressive disease, leading inexorably to blindness. But as sight dims, sufferers experience dreamlike hallucinations, glimpses of a realm somewhere between spirit and reality… (more)

Richard Tarnas' opus on archetypal astrological, Cosmos and Psyche, offers a new paradigm for understanding our relationship to the cosmos.
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The story you are about to read is true. (more)

When I was in my twenties, literature was my ruling passion, and my heroes were writers such as Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, and Henry Miller. I longed to emulate the passionate intensity of their prose, and the “negative capability” which infused their characters with recognizable life. (more)