ANIMALS are just instinctual machines, most people believe. But it’s not true.
Controlled scientific studies suggest there are powerful spiritual and intellectual forces embedded in the kingdoms of nature.
In the 17th Century, René Descartes, dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy,” started us thinking the wrong way.
“Descartes held the living animal as being simply an automaton,” H. P. Blavatsky comments in her article Have Animals Souls — “a ‘well wound up clock-work,’ according to Malebranche” — to which she countered:
“One who adopts the Cartesian theory about the animal, would do as well to accept at once the views of the modern materialists.”
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Koko and Tabby
A woman who clearly did not subscribe to the Cartesian theory, found a young lion injured in the forest on the brink of death. She took it home with her and nursed it back to health.
Later she made arrangements with an animal rescue group to take the lion.
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Some time passed before the woman had a chance to visit. A video was taken when she walked up to the lion’s cage to see how he was doing. Watch the lion’s reaction when he sees her!
EMBARRASSMENT can be, well, embarrassing—especially if you blush in public. We empathize, and also feel embarrassment for others.
ASTROLOGY is just unscientific superstition many skeptics insist. Real philosophy, Theosophy counters, seeks “rather to solve than to deny.”
MOST of us are so preoccupied with future expectations, we fail to see what’s right in front of us. 
WE are surrounded today by untold numbers and varieties of energy-intensive, man-made machines and gadgets.
THOSE who think Theosophy is only about abstract metaphysics, invisible worlds and mystical hierarchies, might want to think again.
YOU must not think that the gods are without employment, declared Synesius, the Greek bishop of Ptolemais.
VIEWED as the dependable Gaia, our Mother Earth is a beautiful and bountiful haven for life in the cosmos. 
CONSCIOUSNESS is a living force, and like the law of 
BLIND chance could never on its own have produced a self-conscious thinking human being, nor would it have any reason for doing so. 
ABSOLUTE certainty requires you to read a person’s mind directly. 
MESMEROMANIA is how the Paris press reported it. 
GOD is by modern science’s definition unscientific because it has as no way to explain or measure the idea of deity.
IN the surreal landscape of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, Alice wonders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror.
