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Suppose for a moment that all your favorite stories are true. Not literally true or true in every detail, but true in essence. What if the stories of our lives are not so different from, say, that of Bilbo Baggins? It may be profoundly un-postmodern of me, but I am suggesting that it's time to reacquaint ourselves with the notion of destiny. (more)

This astrological paradigm is based on the understanding that every incarnation, each lifetime, is created as a result of unresolved desires from previous lives. The evolutionary journey of the soul from life to life is a matter of gradually exhausting all desires until the only desire that remains is the desire to reunite with the Source. (more)

The artist is a shaman. The artist's role, especially in the West, has always been to alter the state of consciousness of the viewer, and to force the big Other, the collective superego, to face its own shadow -- as well as to face the super-consciousness, the One that is beyond the Other, that it denies. (more)

A strictly objective, materialist worldview gives us a skewed view of consciousness where all subjective phenomena become mere epiphenomena of matter without causal efficacy. If consciousness has no causal efficacy, how can we transform? How can we love? (more)