Tagged with Mysticism

The primordial point is the world seed, the supreme formative and paternal potency, which is sown in the primordial womb. What constitutes the womb of the ‘supernal mother'? Geometry provides the answer as we shall see. (more)

Sacred Geometry is undertaken as a contemplative exercise. Each operation reveals fundamental processes of atomic and molecular organization, patterns of biological systems, and the structure of Space and Time.  (more)

Humanity plays a key role in the repair and restoration of the world. The purpose of evil is to provide a context for humanity's redemption, which puts evil, humanity, and God himself in their proper places within the cosmos. (more)

Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, in print ever since 1877, targeted the materialist, reductionist science that was reducing the universe to a machine. Sadly, that vision remains firmly in control, but Blavatsky struck a powerful blow against it and started the ongoing struggle for a more spiritual view of the world that many are carrying on today. (more)

In Kabbalah, if we desire to cross consciously from one world to another, and, as things fall apart, to be actors and not just observers of the electromagnetic shift, the first stage of the process is referred to as "going down to the chariot" or "descent to the Merkavah." A modern phrase might be "descent to the unconscious," as used by Freud and Jung. (more)

During meditation your brain changes, your blood chemistry changes, your stress level goes down, your muscles relax, your heart beat slows, your blood pressure decreases, and your sense of well-being increases. Not bad for 20 minutes. (more)

Which is true: the picture of reality that natural science presents us, or the one that the mystic experiences in visions? This question can only be asked by one who thinks that natural science and the mystical worldview are mutually exclusive.  (more)

The passage to heaven or hell lies through the world of spirits, which is much like our own world. The newly dead are often unaware of their transition, and linger on, trying to gratify their carnal desires. Gradually they come to terms with their "true affections." (more)

Patrice Chaplin is an internationally renowned playwright and author. Her most notable work includes Albany Park, and Siesta, which was made into a film staring Jodi Foster and Isabella Rossellini. In this interview, Patrice discusses her journey through the foothills of the Pyrenees, the land where the Grail and its Troubadours have left their indelible imprint. (more)

Aurobindo Ghose (also known as Sri Aurobindo) was a Bengali mystic, poet, political activist, and social theorist. What would society look like if Aurobindo's views, methods, and practices were applied on a wide scale, and formed the basis of spiritual ethics of social action? (more)

We're told that without integrating spiritual insights into our daily lives, even the greatest of peak experiences is just a narcissistic thrill. We say true spirituality, and certainly Jewish spirituality, is about being in the world. But I think we integrate too quickly, and use this language to avoid making the changes that true spirituality would demand of us. (more)

According to the Prophet Muhammad, the most pernicious form of idolatry was the worship of one's self. Sufis of all forms were concerned with the eradication of self-conceit, but the malamatiyya, in particular, became renowned for accenting the efficacy of "blame," or relentless self-inquiry, in eradicating all vestiges of egoism. (more)

The social activism and consciousness revolution of the 1960s and '70s moved toward social change through individual spiritual transformation. This new sensibility is growing; we can perceive that a genuine evolutionary transformation of human personality is already well under way. (more)

The Greeks regarded sexual passion as a kind of madness -- possession by Eros -- which deprived you of all dignity and made you betray your friends. Nowadays we are particularly prone to such madness because we have lost the religious depth which would contain and define the soul's desire for something beyond the human.  (more)

Fear spreads its hypnotic field across the architecture of the vacuum, disrupting any sense of how the 2 halves of a symbol interlock. We must stare into the sun. We must share our wealth -- as tiny as it may seem to us -- with the birds that terrorize the back-side of the mirror. We must dare to celebrate their feats of reptilian camouflage. (more)

Western religion can be so focused on God that it forgets the world, and it criticizes those who love it as "pagan," as too entranced by the world of appearances. But I like the world and its pleasures.  I am convinced that God is dancing right now, and not to take Her up on it is a little bit offensive. (more)

Baba Ji learned that he would have only three disciples. One would perish in a fire, one would lose his powers and eventually be murdered, and the third would be a foreigner. I asked him several times what would happen to the foreigner, but he never told me. All he would say was that he knew the exact moment I would cross the threshold of his ashram in Rajasthan ten years later. (more)

The Akashic Records are a dimension of consciousness that contains a vibrational record of every soul and its journey. From them, we can derive understanding and direction. (more)

In America, we're used to hippies being for peace and love not just rhetorically, but politically as well. But in Israel, many "fundamentalists" are actually part of the "peace and love" hippie crowd. These people are pulling a trigger and experiencing the Divine. (more)

Paradise theology holds that the human heart, mind, body and soul are patterned after the divine, and that humanity's task is to realize this fully. Once it is realized, there will be a global shift that will end suffering and invite Paradise. Paradise theology respectfully, mindfully, and enthusiastically invites the end of the world. (more)

Some believe that without free will, we are mere biological instruments, with no soul.  But from a nondual perspective, this argument is theologically backward. The autonomous soul isn't the gateway to God; it's the gateway to delusion.  This is the yetzer hara, the selfish, separating and, occasionally, evil inclination that sees the self as the center of the universe.  (more)

What is the connection between divination and parapsychology? Why is divination's mode of operation so alien to science, and rejected by mainstream religion? The MA programme in the cultural study of cosmology and divination at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) seeks to bridge the gulf between theory and practice in the study of divination. (more)

In my dreams, the religion most directly associated with the global collective is Judaism. The story of exodus and diaspora is everyone's story. To find the Promised Land, every person must wander the desert for forty years. (more)

Imagine a world in which everyone understood that all of us are God. According to one interpretation of prophecy, the messianic age is already unfolding, and the gradual emergence and dissemination of nonduality is among its signal phenomena. (more)