[Part I] [Part II]

Reality as a Horror Movie: The Case of the Deadly Sweat Lodge (Part 2)

How far can "transformational thinking" take us?

By Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.

Doctorates in English… Read full post »

The following article was posted in Psychology Today and is an analysis of the James Arthur Ray sweat lodge disaster and prosperity “spirituality” in general. The contents largely echoes my own views on this subject.

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Nearly two years ago I wrote a manuscript titled The Scourge of our Time: The Demise of Critical Thinking in the Age of “The Secret” critiquing the movie/book “The Secret”. In it I warned that this doctrine posed a grave danger to any unquestioning follower’/… Read full post »

Shaping Spacetime

“The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be.”  – Charles Dubois

What we can infer from our consciousness model is that the mind truly is all that there is on either… Read full post »

Time as an Aspect of Expanding Consciousness

The Virtual Reality Suit

 Perception is reality. Or is it virtual reality?

That our essential identity has difficulty perceiving its true spiritual nature while experiencing materiality can best be understood using an… Read full post »

On Monday one of our fellow bloggers, Rolling, (Nabina) left a disturbing comment (refer below) on my blog suggesting that she was being harassed and mistreated by certain members of her community. Since this comment she has not made any comments on any other site with the exception of her last/… Read full post »

Dialectic Progress

“Compartmentalisation is easy. Integrity is painful.It requires we be fully open to the conflicting forces and ideas and stresses of life.” – [M. Scott Peck]

The irony with regard to modern science is that it now is in a position to prove much of what… Read full post »

 When you have gone so far that you can’t manage one more step, then you’ve gone just half the distance that you are capable of. – [Greenland Proverb]

As I inferred (first read Lucifer’s Law), the above view is pure unadulterated evil, thriving on the mos/… Read full post »

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — [Mary Wollstonecraft]

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – [Aristotle]

To further highlight how baseless the many claims in The Secret are I will look a little more closely at one in particular. The following was given attention to in The Deception and there indeed are innumerable/… Read full post »

[The Heart of the Matter] [Growing Pains] [The Miracle of Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The Release]

“Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.” – [Emerson]

One can literally define the spiritual journey as… Read full post »

 [The Heart of the Matter] [Growing Pains] [The Miracle of Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The Release]

 “The people we are in relationship with are always mirrors reflecting our own beliefs… So relationships are one of the most powerful tools for growth…

If we honest… Read full post »

 [The Heart of the Matter] [Growing Pains] [The Miracle of Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The Release]

The Five Layers of Mind

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labour does the body.” – Seneca

An interesting question that arises from The Heart o… Read full post »

 While informing a friend at the University of Cape Town Medical School about my manuscript his faculty at the time wa… Read full post »

"We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra in which each living instrument is essential to the complimentary and harmonious playing of the whole.” – J. Allen Boone

On an experiential level, once you have quietened the chaos in your mind, you can begin to perceive that the universe seeks… Read full post »

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you've always imagined.” –

Henry David Thoreau

And so we come to this particular journey’s end, and we find ourselves once again face to face with paradox. Not only to agree with… Read full post »

[Discipline][Love I][Love II][Religion][Grace I][Grace II]

The Problem of Evil

The problem of evil is perhaps the greatest of all theological problems.

Four conclusions can be drawn concerning its nature:

Firstly, evil is real, it is not the figment of the primitive religious mind. There really… Read full post »

[Discipline][Love I][Love II][Religion][Grace I][Grace II]

The Miracle of Health

Something amazes us when it is out of the ordinary course of things, when it is not predictable by what we know of as “natural law”.

One amazing phenomenon is how people survive the traumas o… Read full post »

  Why do apparently deliriously happy comedians have a higher suicide rate than the rest of us boring folk?  

This is a question that confronted me when the question was raised in a previous post titled Happiness in a Mad World. It was/… Read full post »

This extract was taken from Wellbeing, one of The Art of Living Series by Mark Vernon posted on his blog on January 19 2008.

My motivation for posting it now is twofold. The first is that it is a continuation of a discussion in The Road Less Traveled – Religion… Read full post »

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. – [Albert Einstein]

The reason for much of… Read full post »

The Work of Attention

Having looked at some of the things that love is not, let us now examine some that love is.

Love implies effort. When we extend ourselves, when we take an extra step or walk an extra mile, we do… Read full post »

 [Discipline][Love I][Love II][Religion][Grace]

Love Defined

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. The force that provides the motive, the energy for this discipline, is Love.

In attempting to examine love one must be conscious that one is trying to… Read full post »