Sep
13
2011
(New readers will want to start with the first installment.)
We ended the last installment by discussing the esoteric nature of the injunction. We continue this exploration, and bring this series to a close.
LoF p. 81
In the command "let the crossing be to the state indicated by the token" we at once make the token doubly meaningful, first...
Aug
09
2011
(A full PDF of this article can be had here.)
George Spencer Brown (in his spirit, I would like to say: "Let George Spencer Brown = GSB"), a logician, engineer, and teacher, wrote a curious little book called Laws of Form, that inspired countless interesting people of widely varying backgrounds. The book is not a...
Oct
29
2010
"What is the connection between a transformative learning approach and the sense of one's own spirituality? In what way does transformative learning nurture the spirit any more than any other learning style does?"
There are many styles of transformative learning. In general, however, one key aspect of transformative learning the explicit recognition that learning...
Dec
03
2009
The world has problems; LOTS of them. But as long as there are people like my friend Nancy, who devote their lives and love to one of the most important and practical callings on the planet, education of our young, I have hope for the future.
Let me give you a picture, in her own words,...
Aug
16
2009
A cursory Google search (2009) didn't turn up anything promising in regards to comparing Rudolf Steiner and Sri Aurobindo. Hopefully this will help:
Rudolf Steiner and Sri Aurobindo: A Beginning Comparison
Summary:
This longer essay summarizes the basic elements of the spiritual-cosmological worldviews of two of the most important modern, integrative spiritual thinkers: Rudolf Steiner and...
Mar
15
2009
Evidence can be gained through a variety of means. Just as you would wish to use a sensitive detector of particular frequencies of light if you are doing x-ray crystallography, and not, say, an acoustic detector, so too we need to develop and use detectors that are appropriate to the realm in which we...
Mar
08
2009
Projective geometry offers a window into the human soul -- not as a mere analogy, but directly: projective geometric processes are manifestations of the same archetypes that work through and within human experience.
Doing projective geometry is to move your soul in accordance with these archetypes, and in so doing you start to train your...
Mar
04
2009
Dennis Klocek is holding a Coros Institute meditative retreat on April 3rd - 5th (Palm Sunday Weekend) at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, CA.
Topics will include:
· Death of the spirit in the material world as a source of unconscious anxiety.
· Working on the essential steps of separating the soul forces in the process...
Feb
19
2009
Our experience of ourselves is in many ways completely mediated by aspects which are located beyond the normal boundary of the "I". I'd like to offer one possible way of looking at the issue.
I approach this question concerning the boudaries of the "I" by taking into account the transformations of the "I" as...
Jan
15
2009
what spirit speaks the heart re-echoes
its lofty chambers with choric ringing
twist and fold in timely rhythm
the fountain's deep moods springing
unshadowed now, revealed and waking
all forge and fire, veils rent aside
the swallowed sun, see! - beaming again
'cross the rivers, stride in stride
the call's heard round from distant shores
the ferryman's change cast far away
for the...