Fields of Dream

WHEN our rational brains are all heated up, arguing life’s complexities, that’s usually the best time to kick off our shoes and give it a rest.
“Ever drifting down the stream, lingering in the golden gleam,” Lewis Carroll wondered, “Life, what is it but a dream?”

Yet, at times when we are faced with a [...]

Unlocking the Cage

SPACE, time, matter and consciousness are omnipresent. But in science, a fundamental problem is created because they are considered independent things—a mistaken starting point for unlocking the nature of reality.
Their view is sustained because “most researchers still believe they can build from one side of nature, the physical, without the other side, the [...]

Hanging by a Thread

TO TRULY comprehend the how and why of human genius— like Mozart or Blind Tom—we are led to consider reincarnation and karma.

Teilhard de Chardin’s idea that we are “spiritual beings immersed in a human experience,” only begins to explain the many contradictions of life on Earth.
Yet, we all have a knowing sense of individual [...]

Does Mind Over Matter

IF you saw yourself as nothing but matter, how would that affect the way you live right now?
According to IONS senior scientist Dean Radin, research suggests that our moral sense is deeply tied to our worldview. (Believing You Are)

It says that our underlying beliefs make all the difference in our behavior—how we treat others, [...]

Reflecting Pool

BETWEEN us TheosophyWatch editors, we know loved ones who’ve died or almost died at the hand of psychiatrists who over-prescribed them with powerful anti-psychotics.
More recently, we grieved for 12-year-old Denis Maltezm and 7-year-old Gabriel Myers who, the Miami Herald reported, allegedly lost their lives this way.
Denis’ mother is suing the psychiatrist and a [...]

Buddha’s Grace

MAITREYA, the Future Buddha whose name means “loving kindness,” is a very active Bodhisattva, Buddhist tradition says, involved intimately with the Earth.
We saw in the story of Asanga, how closely Maitreya was in his relationship with his chela.
Not only did this boost Asanga’s spiritual progress, but that propelled him to a point where he [...]

Amphibios

We recently updated the companion post, Lofty Strangeness, with a new formation that appeared in an English barley field on May 30, 2009.
Further investigation reveals an exciting Theosophical interpretation of the “jellyfish” formation.
The form may symbolize the Circle Makers themselves—living simultaneously in an astro-spiritual and terrestrial matrix.
Experts in the field, the Alexanders, say [...]