Hermetic Reality – Chapter from “Creating the Universe”
Can perception change your reality? Explore the possibilities with this theory of the basis of reality and our relationship to it!
Imagine a 3-D World
Film, television, and video games pack in as much fast-paced, loud, intense action in a minute as real life does in a week. The nervous system, conditioned to such intense stimuli, becomes uncomfortable in the presence of the slow, the quiet, and the natural. As Lao-tau said, “Colors blind the eyes, sounds deafen the ears, flavors spoil the palate.”
A Revolution in Human Consciousness
Are we being coerced into altered modes of consciousness? Is is possible that the non-linear connections over space and time between our species will be one of the aspects that will become more dominant in the years ahead?
The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense
This essay is about a shocking contradiction in our common sense about the nature of reality, a contradiction that you are probably totally unaware of. Becoming aware of this contradiction has the potential to change your life.
Five Ways Materialists Beg the Question
In this essay, I want to summarize some of the common ways in which materialists beg the question: that is, the ways in which they argue for the validity of materialism by assuming materialism in the argument. The circularity of their reasoning becomes clear once it’s pointed out, but it is astonishing how often educated, intelligent materialists fall for it.
Experiential Reality
Imagination is the window into the infinite universe. Free of the boundaries of linear space and time, and cause and effect, imagination provides us the power to create “realities” where anything is possible.
Dream Perception: An Encounter with the Oracle at Delphi
Ibn ‘Arabi maintained that imagination is one
of the senses. Aristotle explored the relationship
between imagination and perception. Intellect draws from our interior world, not just from material reality. We move through that world in our dreams.
Welcome to the Future Nauseous
We live in a state of manufactured normalcy. There are mechanisms that prevent us from realizing that the future is actually happening as we speak. To really understand how the world is evolving, we need to break through this manufactured field. Unfortunately, that leads to a kind of existential nausea.
Are Minds Confined to Brains?
Materialism is the doctrine that only matter is real. Hence minds are in
brains, and mental activity is nothing but brain activity. This
assumption conflicts with our own experience. When we look at a
blackbird, we see a blackbird; we do not experience complex electrical
changes in our brains. But most of us accept the mind-within-the-brain
theory.
The Lost Marble
I spent increasing amounts of time just gazing into the
clear marble, fascinated with the way it contained a distorted image of my
entire bedroom and everything in it. So deeply, in fact, did I enter this distorted
but complete inner world that I forgot myself.