Death
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Divine Madness
At the end of my last article on Empedocles, he claimed that the only way to make our way through the illusions of this finite material world is through Strife or “Madness.” This…
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Empedocles and the Garden of Eden
This is my third article on Empedocles’ story of the cosmos and the soul. In the first one, I laid out the basics of the story. You can read it here. It is the…
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Empedocles: Cosmologist and Magician: Part II
In my last article, “Empedocles: Cosmologist and Magician,” linked here, I laid out Empedocles’ story of the cosmos and his story of the soul and merged the two. For background, please read that article.…
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Heading to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine?
There was an interesting article in the opinion section of the New York Times a couple of days ago. It was by Sergey Radchenko, who is an historian of the Cold War. It…
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Carl Jung on the Dangers of Modernity
I was in a discussion with fellow Medium writer, Graham Pemberton, over why Carl Jung had refused to meet with the Indian Holy Man, Ramana Maharshi, while he was in India in the…
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Nothing “Really” Matters
Notice the word in parenthesis (it wouldn’t let me italicize it) “Really”. That word, generally, adds nothing to a sentence. For example, instead of saying, “He is a really good person, we should…
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The Bardo of Becoming
We have now just about come full circle. We started out with the bardo of this life, and now we are at the final bardo of the six bardo series, the bardo of…
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The Parable of the Blue Sky and the Clouds
It’s amazing to think that our real fear of death is really a fear of life. It is a fear of who we really are. Our fear of death is at bottom a…
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The Bardo of Dharmata (After-Death)
After we have officially died, meaning the journey of our physical body and the appearances of this life have ended, the journey of the mind continues into the Bardo of Dharmata. This is…
