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The official history of science says that with the birth of modern science astronomy and chemistry soared into the heavens while astrology and alchemy were condemned to lurk in the shadows. That’s not how Professor Leon Marvell sees it.
To understand the play of surface events in the world — whether social
and political upheavals, natural cataclysmic events and gradual shifts
such as climate change, or unpredictable and uncanny events in one's
personal life — it is necessary to understand the deep play of the
Supreme Intelligence that underlies and pervades reality.
The recent rash of shootings is beginning to look like a recurring nightmare. If we were to analyze the mass shooting phenomenon as if it were a dream, what would this show us about the
state of our colletive psyche?
Yin and yang, dark and light,
square and round, masculine and feminine interact, intersect, and
intercourse to comprise the cacophony of life. The seasons describe the phases of
emergence, flourishing, gathering, and storage of yang, of vital warmth.
As holographic microcosms of the universe, we cannot maintain health
apart from this natural cycle.
The following is excerpted from Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere, available from University of Washington Press (2011). If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines …
In my eyes, Rolf came to represent a now rarely practiced, but time-honored approach to healing: that of the vision quest, where the "goal is to get back inside nature to hear her original medical voice."
To deny or distrust our own perceptions is to reject our authority as author of our own experience. It takes courage to stand for our experience when our perceptions are not validated by others. In not disassociating from our experience, we are on our way to becoming autonomous individuals.
Last week, I attended the Psychedelics and Spirituality debate between Daniel Pinchbeck and Dharmanidhi. Putting aside the issue of psychedelics, what was more intriguing to me was that there seemed a persistent gap in their conceptions of evolution and change. Given their shared emphasis on doing good and maximum benefit, how then do we reconcile the divergence?
When the alchemists had a living experience of God through their relationship with the imaginatively created philosophers' stone, they realized that the whole experience was nothing other than an experience of the divine imagination, which is to say that they were realizing that they themselves were living inspirations of the divine, creative imagination itself.
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