To “If a man does not walk on the path of Wisdom, he cannot have light and knowledge. If a man does not walk on the path of truth, he cannot have freedom.

Three rules for living:

• Make Love be a way in your life.
• Have Wisdom be a way for knowledge and light.
• Let truth be a way for your freedom.

Apply this as a foundation, and you will avoid unneeded suffering. …If a man loves truth, it will always help him. The man who lives and loves in truth will always be helped; truth is reasonable.” ~Biensa Douno

Path of Wisdom

“The words in this quote have to be read and studies carefully. Douno doesn’t say that one has to have wisdom before he can have light and knowledge. He says only that he must be on the path of wisdom.

“If you are in any spiritual groups in social media, you probably see quite regularly posts, or answers to posts, that say there is no correct path, no right path. All paths are the same they say. The only ones who teach that are those who simply don’t know what the true path is and don’t want to admit it.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JUNE 16, 2018

“Man is not organized as a self-consistent unity. He always demands more than the world, of its own accord, gives him. Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied. And our thirst for knowledge is but a special instance of this dissatisfaction. We look twice at a tree. The first time we see its branches at rest, the second time in motion. We are not satisfied with this observation.

“The something more which we seek in things, over and above what is immediately given to us in them, splits our whole being into two parts. We become conscious of our antithesis to the world. We confront the world as independent beings. The universe appears to us in two opposite parts: I and World. We erect this barrier between ourselves and the world as soon as consciousness first dawns in us. But we never cease to feel that, in spite of all, we belong to the world, that there is a connecting link between it and us, and that we are beings within, and not without, the universe. This feeling makes us strive to bridge over this antithesis, and in this bridging lies ultimately the whole spiritual striving of mankind. The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art and science follow, one and all, this aim. The religious believer seeks in the revelation” ~Rudolf Steiner

Seeking More

Actually, man is fairly consistent in one thing: wanting more. Whatever he has, he wants more. Whatever he knows, he wants to know more. This is a good thing. Contented cattle may be easy to control, but they don’t grow, they don’t evolve. Man grows and evolves simply because he is not content with the status quo. He always looks for something better. Yet, while we have this discontent, we also want happiness and unity.

We also have to work to get things. It is our nature as well as that of the universe. Everything is moving. We must move also, we must work also. And we tend to not appreciate that which is handed to us without earning it.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Mark Gober explores the unresolved scientific puzzle: how and why does consciousness exist? In Mark’s book An End to Upside Down Thinking, he summarizes some of the voluminous scientific evidence which suggests that consciousness is not generated by nor confined to the brain. A major focus of his evidential summary is the amazing abundance of scientific studies, dating back more than half a century, into psychic phenomena, such as telepathy, ESP and precognition.

A parallel field of investigation is survival of consciousness – that is the study of near-death experiences and even purported communications with the dead by so-called mediums.

This presentation is produced by the Thunderbolts Project. While The Thunderbolts Project takes no position on these issues, in the past the project has presented interviews and public presentations by such noted scientists as Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Dean Radian, both of whose scientific research into consciousness Mark outlines in his book. In this talk, Mark offers a brief yet comprehensive overview of compelling evidence that the locus and source of consciousness is non-material.

Watch the presentation on YouTube (15:35)

link submitted by Robert Petrovich

Rowena Pattee Kryder (October 29, 1935 – October 11, 2014) was a friend of the Community and a resident of Reno during the final years of her life. During those years, she gave of her time as a featured speaker at the “Spiritual State of the World” conferences held in Reno. Rowena was also a benefactress of the Church, donating her vast library of 2000 books to the Church before she moved here to Reno from Albuquerque, New Mexico be closer to the Community.

Now her legacy as an artist and author is being preserved by her friends and students through a web site dedicated to her work. Her final book, WHOLENESS: Healing the Cosmic Spirit, is being offered for the first time as an electronic book on this new web site.

VISIT ROWENA’S ONLINE STORE

For more info: rogdavis@mac.com or loumedia@gmail.com

Freedom Hill Creatives publishing house in Taiwan is publishing a Chinese language edition of Kim MacQuarrie’s book The Last Days of the Incas, in which Gene Savoy’s discovery of Gran Pajaten is featured.

Milky Way (stock image).
PHOTO CREDIT: © mandritoiu / Fotolia

Date: December 5, 2018

Source: University of Oxford

Summary: New research could shed light on the ‘missing’ dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of our universe and yet are wholly invisible to us.

Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses ‘negative mass’. If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.

Read the entire article posted online December 5, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

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“The enlightened man shall also mark and behold the attributes of the Father in the Godhead: how He is omnipotent Power and Might, Creator, Mover, Preserver, Beginning and End, the Origin and Being of all creatures. This the rill of grace shows to the enlightened reason in its radiance. It also shows the attributes of the Eternal Word: abysmal Wisdom and Truth, … Eternal and unchangeable Rule,Seeing all things and seeing Through all things, none of which is hidden from Him. … So it also shows in the enlightened reason the attributes of the Holy Ghost: incomprehensible Love and Generosity, Compassion and Mercy, infinite Faithfulness and Benevolence, … a flame of fire which burns all things together in unity. … All this is observed and beheld without differentiation or division in the simple nature of the Godhead.” ~John of Ruysbroeck

Enlightened Person

“Trying to explain enlightenment to a materialistic person is like trying to explain atomic energy to a caveman who has just discovered fire. Yet the materialists will ask and then think enlightenment doesn’t exist if you can’t give a simple answer in ten words or less.

“Even those of us who have been spiritual students for ears only have a vague concept of it. It is something that can be known only by those who have experienced it. Ruysbroeck may be one who did experience it and is trying his best to explain it. Because of the limitations of language designed to explain the material world, he cannot totally succeed. But he does give us a good idea of what it is.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on AUGUST 15, 2018

Consociate Paul Young, editor and creator of the Australian-based monthly magazine Australian Esoteric, is planning a series of articles on Cosolargy to be published in that magazine during the 2019 year.

An article introducing the series appears in the December 2018 issue.

 Read the article by Paul Young posted in the December 2018 issue of Australian Esoteric.

“The occult claim that there are seven senses in man, as in nature, as there are seven states of consciousness, is corroborated. … The Brahmana speaks on it ‘of the institution of the seven sacrificial priests (Hotris)’. He says: ‘The nose and the eyes, and the tongue, and the skin and the ear as the fifth (or smell, sight, taste, touch, and hearing) mind and understanding are the seven sacrificial priests separately stationed’; and which ‘dwelling in a minute space(still) do not perceive each other’ on the sensuous planes, none of them except mind. For mind says: ‘The nose smells not without me, the eye does not take in color, etc. I am the eternal chief among all elements (i. e., senses). Without me, the senses never shine. …

“This, of course, with regard only to mind on the sensuous plane. Spiritual mind … takes no cognizance of the senses in physical man.” ~H. P. Blavatsky

Seven Senses

“Since spiritual, occult, and religious writings always speak of things in sevens, it makes sense that we should think of the physical senses as being seven rather than five. The ancient book Blavatsky quotes from calls the sixth and seventh mind and understanding. She doesn’t explain what was meant by understanding. I think it would be more accurate to call those two senses mind and intuition. This will be confusing to some since what we are here calling the seventh sense is commonly considered to be the sixth. Some will also say that the mind is not really a sense but an interpreter of what the senses detect. That is splitting hairs, I think. And interpreting the environment is what senses are all about. The mind plays a big part in that process. Seven senses just makes sense.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JUNE 1, 2018

In this speculative and thought provoking talk recorded at Reconnect 2018 on July 7, 2018 at Bath, UK, Rupert Sheldrake asks listeners to look beyond the strict confines of scientific materialism and consider how the consciousness of stellar bodies (such as our Sun) is not only of anthropological or cultural interest but a valid field of enquiry in modern philosophy, psychology, cosmology, and neuroscience.

Watch the talk on YouTube (47:14).

link submitted by Robert Petrovich