The Soul of Things

Posted on January 25, 2010 by theosophywatch

RESCUING consciousness from the camp of reductionism, where it has languished for centuries, takes an imaginative and fearless investigator.
Dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy,” Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as mere automatons.
Unlikely to be a popular concept with animal rights activists!

The French philosopher-mathematician was also the one who famously [...]

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Buddha’s Big Fish

Posted on November 14, 2009 by theosophywatch

CHOOSING Theosophical principles of Universal Unity and Harmony over brutality, the country of Bhutan has a developed “a unique way of judging the development of its society,” says the Humane Society International.
Bhutan accomplishes this, the Society reports, “by measuring its GNH (Gross National Happiness), rather than the more conventional GNP (Gross National Product).”

“In Bhutan the [...]

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Sins of the Father

Posted on November 3, 2009 by theosophywatch

THOUSANDS of honest employees in the Enron scandal revealed in 2001, paid dearly for the misdeeds at the top of their corporate leadership.
Maybe most of the non-managerial staff were “innocent” — possibly, others knew what was going on and remained silent.
Either way the lesson is clear: No one is safe working for a [...]

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Visceral Knowing

Posted on October 2, 2009 by theosophywatch

THE EPIPHANY for astronaut Edgar Mitchell occurred when he looked out the window of his spacecraft at the Earth, Moon and Sun, and at the infinitely vast star systems. Suddenly it came to him that the molecules and cells of our bodies must have had their origin in those faraway stars.
It was at that moment [...]

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Future Seeing

Posted on September 11, 2009 by theosophywatch

“THE PAST, the Present, and the Future are, in the esoteric philosophy, a compound time,” wrote Helena Blavatsky, “for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane—but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity.”
Our generally accepted worldview of duration and time “are all derived from our sensations [...]

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Journey to The Heart

Posted on August 26, 2009 by theosophywatch

WHEN our earthly Mothers welcomed us back in the house after a hard day’s play, we assumed there would be a lovingly prepared meal waiting for us, a soothing bath and a bedtime story. Clean pajamas and sheets were as much Mother’s rule as her unconditional love.
Mother Nature knows how to care for Her children [...]

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Breath of Heaven

Posted on August 6, 2009 by otownley

How comes our physical body to the state of perfection it is found in now? Through millions of years of evolution, of course, yet never through, or from, animals, as taught by materialism.
For, as Carlyle says: — “The essence of our being, the mystery in us that calls itself  ‘I,’ — what words have [...]

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Descent Of Darwin

Posted on February 12, 2009 by otownley

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on February 12,1809. His seminal work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, was published in 1859.
Sixteen years later with Isis Unveiled (1875), and twenty-nine years later with The Secret Doctrine (1888), the World Mother of Theosophy H. P. Blavatsky (HPB), in [...]

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The Secret of Intention

Posted on October 2, 2008 by otownley

Lynne McTaggart, author of the Field, talks about her vocation, the basis of happiness and the power of intention.

For it is the motive, and the motive alone, which makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white, beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ spiritual forces if there is [...]

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