Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Promethean mysticism
2009-06-12 12:42:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Promethean mysticism It is 7:13 AM Friday morning. I got up this morning around 6:23 AM. It is another cold day. It has been a cold wet Spring this year by Lake Michigan. I am down in the basement writing on my lap top. I came down here to read the News. I wanted to find out who ...
By: BackBeat
mysticism?s dark path
2009-01-17 22:46:00 Saturday 17: It was another late night last evening, trying to find the best etailer for my cartoon posters. However, after my bath, I found myself reading of Simone Weil (again). Earlier in the week, it was St John of the Cross and the Dark Night of the Soul. And, again, I thought how odd ...
On Mysticism and Mystery School | Interview with Dr. Stewart Bitkoff | Part
2008-10-20 21:18:00 "The goal of the mystical school is the completed person.The completed person has added a degree of spiritual development to their other capacities. This spiritual development is accomplished through an interaction between the Master, the student and Path."- Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, from the article Mystical SchoolThe following is the first part of interview with Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, author of the book 'A Commuter's Guide to Enlightenment'. Dr. Bitkoff is a doctoral graduate in education, an expert in Therapeutic Recreation, Psychiatric Rehab and Psychiatric Treatment. He has been on Faculty, served as Field Instructor (Social Work/Psychology) for New York University, Herbert Lehman College, Iona College, College of New Rochelle, East Stroudsburg University, and Northampton Community College. He has written many works centering on the topic of the completed person and the original human development system.For years, Dr. Bitkoff studied in two modern mystical schools and was designate...
Interview with Reb Zalman | on Mystic Experience and Mysticism for a New Hu
2008-08-19 08:35:00 Father of the Neo-Hasidic Jewish Renewal movement, Reb Zalman Scachter-Shalomi is widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Hasidism and Jewish mysticism, a leading spiritual elder of our time and recognized as a pioneer in ecumenical dialogue. This interview with Reb Zalman was conducted early August 2008.I opened up the interview by sharing how all the major enlightened beings, for example Moses, Buddha, Jesus or Muhammad, peace be upon them all, each has gone through initial mystical experiences at their time of enlightenment breakthrough. Sometime such experiences are perceived as outside experience (Burning Bush for Moses, mystical encounter with Archangel Garbriel for Prophet Muhammad) and sometime as inner experience (such as Buddha's awakening or receiving Quranic revelation in a lucid state for Muhammad). So we find mystical experiences very much at the heart of all tradition and thats where they started from.Now after encountering these inner experienc...
Importance Of Natural Archetypes In Mysticism
2008-08-03 00:48:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 2Related to the metaphysical concept of soul-friends as discussed in previous entries (Anam Chara - Reyah - Soul Friend and The Blessing Of Rejection) is the concept of natural Archetypes and their importance to soul craft, magic and mysticism.Scottish magician R. J. Stewart (The UnderWorld Initiation) distinguishes Archetypes as they pertain to esoteric traditions from those of modern psychology:We are not discussing an archetype in the modern psychological sense; an Archetype is a Matrix or key Image which gives shape and direction to energies arising out of the Primal source of all being.Modern astronomy has shown us the physical expressions of such Matrices in the vast spiral shapes of distant galaxies, while physics reveals patterns upon the most fundamental atomic levels. These material reflections of Archetypal Matrices (long understood by the ancients in the pure shapes of the Platonic solids) offer us exterior clues to our interior consciousness; and...
By: Walking On Fire
Dead Man (1995) R 2h
2008-07-09 07:33:00 Review: Dead Man (1995) This dramatic western starring Johnny Depp was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The plot: After death of his parents, William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, takes a job offer and moves to the Town of Machine at the end of the train line. However he arrived about two months late. Penniless, he’s picked ...
Approach to an Unknown God: Religion collapses back into Mysticism | Sanctu
2008-06-21 11:40:00 1.Eli, Eli,lama sabachthani?- Jesus Christ at the Cross at ninth hour, Matthew 27:46My God, My God, why have You veiled YourSelf (from me)?- a mystical interpretation of mysticsaint2.In the end, religion collapses back into mysticism as it recognizes that after we have said all we can say about God, we are still surrounded by an imprenetrable silence. Thomas Aquinas devoted his most rigorous thinking to trying to establish how we could speak about God based on analogies taken from human experiences.But after our minds have erected the ladder of analogy as high as possible toward God, he concludes, "we remained joined to Him as to One Unknown." Augustine, after writing endless words trying to explain the Trinity, admitted in the end, "I only write in order not to be silent."Mysticism counsels us to follow the via negativa, to honor the infinite distance that separate the finite and the infinite, to live within "the clouds of the unknowing" (Jacob Boehme), to respect the silence of th...
Discussion: Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss
2008-04-24 15:05:00 This is a very interesting discussion between two rather well-known and well-mediatized scientist: famous anti-god and anti-religion flagbearer Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss one of the many pretenders to the throne of former physics/astrophysics for the layperson champion Carl Sagan. It is a very interesting discussion, about the agelong conflict between science ...
By: Loopy's Manifold
MYSTICISM - ABDUCCION (2006)
2008-03-26 05:29:00 MYSTICISM es formada a finales del año 2005 por Miguel TAIFE y Sergio MEYHAS, como proyecto paralelo a la agrupación CHAQUEN de la cual pertenecían; fueron llamados a completar la alineación de MYSTICISM, Anibal SADIST que pertenecía a la agrupación ORDOG y Ricardo MANTIX de la agrupación SARGON; estando completa la banda se inicia trabajos en enero de 2006. Luego de entrar a composición, trabajo de ensayos y acoplamiento se realiza una grabación en vivo en los estudios KEOPS de la ciudad de Bogotá bajo la ingeniería de FERNANDO y la mezcla de SADIST sacando al mercado un demo llamado "ABDUCCIÓN" el cual consta de 4 temas de puro y devastador BLACK METAL; en la composición de letras, 2 de los temas están en ingles y dos en español, este incluye multimedia de la agrupación su distribución y venta se define básicamente en conciertos y correo directo, el cual lleva a que el CD a termino de 8 semanas quede descontinuado del mercado; viendo esto MYSTICISM entra a finales de agosto de...
By: Descarga Metal
A new dawn of Bonaventurian mysticism!
2008-02-15 18:35:00 We do not frequently hear much about Saint Bonaventure. However, he is a noted Doctor of the Church and a pupil in the schools of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi. His writings have influenced the Scholastic age of the Church and perhaps the thoughts and pontificate of Benedict XVI. Today the ZENIT ...
Reader Submission: Big Ron?s Discovery
2008-02-04 06:06:00 Sydney, AU — An arts student at some university in Syndey has shaken the religious world to the core by unexpectantly discovering the fundamental truth of the universe. Big Ron, 29, says he found The Truth while attempting to scrounge change towards a bus ride to his mate’s place and said that he really ...
Number Theory & Mysticism Part 4
2008-01-31 03:27:00 Fibonacci Numbers The Fibonacci sequence mentioned in part 3 has many interesting properties. If we divide the golden ratio formula Φ^2 = Φ + 1 by Φ, we get Φ = 1 + 1/Φ. Since the right side of the equation is equal to Φ, we can substitute it for Φ in the ri
Number Theory & Mysticism Part 3
2008-01-26 02:15:00 The Golden Ratio If a line of length x is divided into sections y and z such that x/y = y/z, the ratio of x to y or of y to z is called the golden section or golden ratio, which we will call Φ. x ——̵-2;——-212;|——&-;#8212;
Javanese believe ancient mysticism shielding ex-dictator Suharto from death
2008-01-24 11:35:00 As a young soldier, former Indonesian president Suharto was visited by powerful Javanese shaman who bequeathed him mystical charms to shield him from bullets and make him invisible during battle.Suharto is now 86 and has been languishing in a Jakarta hospital for weeks. But magical pins and metal ? some said to be embedded in his body ? are keeping the one-time strongman from passing to another world, according to popular Indonesian legend.Doctors said Thursday his condition was improving after briefly deteriorating the day before. Fluid and infection in his lungs were reduced overnight and Suharto was able to whisper and take a few bites of food.The 40-member presidential medical team struggling to stem Suharto's sepsis, pneumonia, failing kidneys, lungs and heart ascribe his resilience to tough army training and physical strength.On the streets, however, theories about his spiritual powers prevail."There are many strange objects in his body. They are making it difficult for Suhar...
Number Theory & Mysticism Part 2
2008-01-18 21:36:00 Prime Numbers Prime numbers are those with no integer factor. The first five are 1,3,5,7, & 11. The intervals between successive primes are irregular, but tend to get longer as the numbers increase in size. The fundamental theorem of rational arithmetic states that a positive integ
mysticism and memories
2007-12-27 19:38:00 Thursday 27 Thanks to the ineptness of two Royal Mail staff members, Ma had a serious panic attack today. On Christmas Eve, I missed a 09:30 ?special delivery?, and rang to be told it would be re-delivered on Thursday morning (today). I was supposed to be having lunch with Ma at the NandD?s, and I told ...
Rebellion in Islam: the fight against doctrine part 2
2007-12-16 17:28:00 A spiritually inclined apostate of Islam, sherryx, continues his article. The movement of Mysticism emerged as a reaction against the nexus of Arab imperialism - the Mullahs or the clerics and the emergence of a culture of the rich and the fashionable , against which the “rough shirt” of wool became the symbol of resistance ...
Rebellion in Islam: the fight against doctrine
2007-12-11 17:21:00 Another apostate of Islam, sherryx writes about the historic forces that led to the rise of Sufism. It’s an enlightening article that highlights the mystical and libertarian force within Islam, suprisingly in the language of Marxists! I recommend everyone read this, especially the unfriendly critics of Islam. I am He whom I love, and He whom ...
At the Gates of the Underworld
2007-12-05 21:11:00 Little red dragonflies are flying back and forth harmlessly all around me, engaged in seriously in their own business. The water undulates serenely. The white goose stands on the ledge at the edge of the water. Calmly, he looks around, takes a couple of paces back and forth and then returns to the ...
By: Loopy's Manifold
The sufi who would destroy Islam
2007-12-02 16:47:00 From my favorite blog, Lame Crab Walks Straight I will incinerate this creed and religion, and burn it. Then I will put your love in its place. How long must I hide this love in my heart? What the traveler seeks is not the religion and not the creed: Only You. - Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani, executed at the age 33, on the charge of ...
Morphed Mysticism
2007-11-08 17:27:00 firoze shakir photographerno1 posted a photo: You take what you get Morphed mysticism Disfigured dogmatism A soulless sunset Click fraud poetry Unwired to her Internet Online sharing and scaring Called Buzznet Androgynously amorphous Playing hard to forget A buzz blot..Inkjet That makes my Testicular fortitude Perspire and sweat my dharma her karma colliding collectively much before we met a room with a view overlooking her wretched heart that says to let? unflushed emotions harboring liquid joy in her blue toilet
The Mysticism of a Malang
2007-11-08 17:10:00 firoze shakir photographerno1 posted a photo: Penetrating the pain On my eyes This Malang Did realize My foolhardiness Pretending to be wise My virtue tainted By a hackers lies Deleted diaspora of my blogs when living I did not optimize Stumble upon Olivia B some surprise thank you out there blindfolded shia guys the chosen ones in utter disguise you must in your saintly sanctimoniousness never compromise my fate emboweled to a loaded dice contractors of our faith on our bodies and souls build new high rise touching the feat of god in celestial skies
The Observer Effect (Quantum Mechanics and Mysticism)
2007-11-03 01:47:00 The following is written by Alex Paterson, and is from the page OBSERVER EFFECT. I find this VERY VERY interesting, something I plan to pursue seriously. I am familiar with the 'Observer Effect' phenomenon, having studied Quantum Physics formally, but am now studying it in greater detail. Am studying it from the mystical point of view now. It is not just Quantum Physicists who say what is
By: Life-1
Journeying Into Mysticism
2007-09-19 17:38:00 Guest Post by Raza Rumi I turn my face towards the monsoon breeze and lament that I?m in Delhi for work. How will I manage the sightseeing agenda? The faint scent of champa flowers seems hauntingly familiar and I?m reminded of Lahore. Despite my efforts, visa hassles and my non-Indo-Pak-peace-brigade status have prevented this journey from ...
Mystics and Mysticism - Who Are These Mystics and What is Mysticism? - Part
2007-09-11 04:09:00 Christian Mysticism or any kind of mysticism - what’s it all about? Why do Christian Mystics seek a god? They contemplate - why do they do that, and to what end? Who does it impress or edify, if at all? Are they just a bunch of tricksters? All will be revealed in this my latest ...
Bridal Mysticism is Ecstacy personified !
2007-09-10 11:27:00 Amongst the Yogas Four, Bhakthi Yoga is extolled. This is because Absolute Self as Love is more endearing than Absolute Self as Wisdom or Action or Psychic Control.The veil between the Ego and the Self, the Mind or Maya or the Mirror suddenly ceases to be, revealing the face of the Beloved.What bliss can equal the Bliss that is coming from Thee !
By: Fourfold Yoga
Study reveals Psychiatrists least religious
2007-09-06 18:47:00 The following has been shamelessly ripped off from Mind Hacks. A just published study that looked at the religious beliefs of different types of medical doctors in the US has found that psychiatrists are the least religious among the medical specialities. The study also found that non-psychiatrist physicians who were religious, were least likely to refer ...
Spirit Orbs At The Grey Moss Inn?
2007-09-04 13:29:00 After Dark Paranormal Research in Texas shot some very interesting video at The Grey Moss Inn with lot’s of orb activity. I just recieved this from MySpace. The best one is at the end. Enjoy!
By: Strange And Cool
The Journey of Sulook (Mysticism) | Pearls of Wisdom
2007-08-30 17:51:00 Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali, Baabaajee Sarkaar, QaddasAllaahu Ta'alaa Sirruhul 'Azeez. May God bless his soul. I so love this picture of the master in samadhi, lost in remembrance and contemplation of the Beloved. May your glance at the face of the master bring baraka (blessings and magnetism) for you.Blessed birth: Thursday, 27th Rabee'uth Thaanee, AH 1329, 27th April, 1911. His blessed wisaal (going behind the curtain): Sunday, 16 Ramadaan-ul-Mukarram, AH 1417, 26th January, 1997. creditThe Journey of Sulook (Mysticism) has three land marks:1. (To know and believe) that everything good and evil is from Allaah (with His permission)2. All that has been mentioned above is based on Divine Wisdom.3. (All that happens to me) is for my welfare only.Till such time as one accepts with a sincere heart these fundamental rules (laws), one cannot find tranquility. Accept with complete faith ? with a true heart every good and evil is from Allaah (and) taking place under the total c...
Eastern Mystical Bullshit
2007-08-25 22:24:00 I stumbled upon this delightful little blog. Robert Priddy (check his own wikipedia page!) blasts a guy called “Sathya Sai Baba”, an Indian mystic. Check out his blog. Here’s a great excerpt that reflects the profoundly idiotic claims of mysticism: This magnetism ?does not come from anywhere outside? but then it is in temples? Sathya Sai Baba ...
Why mysticism is irritating bullshit
2007-08-21 18:18:00 In this entry I will detail why I find mysticism irritating bullshit. It bloody well makes no sense on its own merits. Smug mystics (who don’t believe they are arrogant but are one of the most arrogant & pretentious bastards in the world) smile to themselves in their condescending way, thinking; “You just don’t get ...
The Salvia Divinorum Experience
2007-08-20 00:56:00 I don't quite know how to start this post except by just telling you what happened last weekend when I went to see my friend Brian. We hadn't seen each other for about 2 years. We've been best friends for a god aweful amount of time so I decided it was time we hung out for awhile and talked. Well, I went over there and he started talking about this stuff called Salvia Divinorum. He said it was
By: Strange And Cool
FINDING MY RELIGION III - Kabbalah scholar Daniel Matt takes the mysticism
2007-08-17 22:18:00 For centuries, the study of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, was considered off-limits to anyone but the most mature scholars. Some believed you could go crazy if you weren’t ready to take its powerful truths about the nature of God and reality. That was, of course, before a wave of Hollywood stars became entranced with the teachings ...
By: Templar Globe
The Ordinary Mystic is being invaded by spirit orbs. :-)
2007-08-16 12:28:00 I was browsing around today and spotted a post with pics from The Ordinary Mystic about spirit orbs (dust bunnies?) showing up at his house. It's an interesting phenomenon. If you look around on google there's all sorts of info about it. Get It Here... I'm also interested in Electronic Voice Phenomenon. I've got some equipment and I plan on doing some experiments soon. Stick around. L8rZ
By: Strange And Cool
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, the Sufi and Islamic Mysticism
2007-08-16 08:10:00 It was in the course of his practice of Islam that the 19th Century contemplative Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886) had one of his remarkable visions: ?I was meditating under the banyan tree when I was shown a Mussalman (a Muslim). He came to me with rice in an earthen plate. The Mother (Kali) showed me that there exists only One and not two. It is Satchidananda (Truth - Knowledge - Bliss - Absolute, Brahman) alone that has taken various forms; He alone has become the world and its living beings.?Ramakrishna was initiative into Islamic practice by a devout Sufi Govinda Rai. He repeated the holy name of Allah and recited the namaz (the formal prayer of Islam); the Hindu mode of though vanished from his mind during this period, which culminated in his vision. As his disciple Mahendra observed: ?The mighty river of Islam also led him back to the Ocean of the Absolute.?Ramakrishna?s life is unique in the annals of religious experience. Although born to an orthodox Hindu Brahmin family...
Why mysticism (Sufism) in Pakistan has lost its pedigree?
2007-07-31 22:47:00 Living in the country like Pakistan where at every step we come across a soul buried ? a mystic; nowadays we can?t find a true Teacher who could help us in taking the oath of Allegiance or Bay?a read more
Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism Blog
2007-07-18 00:37:00 ?' ??? ???"?I've added a new magickal Judaism blog to my Torah blogs list. Check out the blog authored by Rabbi Dennis, Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism.
By: Walking On Fire
Integral mysticism in the postmodern world | Integral Spirituality
2007-06-04 12:49:00 "Integral Spirituality" as renowned philosopher and theoretical psychologist Ken Wilber puts, "will recognize the universal transcendent core of the world's spiritual traditions while simultaneously embracing the multiplicity of religious practices and beliefs. It will provide an integrating framework, grounded in spiritual experience, which unites the disparate theological systems by representing each as a unique but partial view of the same infinite divine reality.In a dialogue series titled, The Mystic Heart posted by IntegralNaked in youtube, Brother Wayne Teasdale and Ken Wilber discuss the advent of an integral mysticism in the postmodern world. Reflecting on their own spiritual experiences, the relation of science to spirituality, the lives of the great inter-spiritual pioneers, and how youth culture is revitalizing the mystical traditions, Brother Wayne and Ken show how an integral perspective can bring the revelations of mysticism into everyday life.In so doing, we learn t...
Astrological Mysticism
2007-05-17 00:00:00 The nine planets, grahas, are existence itself. Truly the planets form the Person of Time, Kalapurusha, and their abode is the Wheel of Time, Kalachakra. Each person is the fulness of this Cosmic Identity. The whole wheel of energies, shaktichakras, is itself the fullness of Being. The...
By: Woman portal 007
Astrological Mysticism
2007-05-16 16:43:00 The nine planets, grahas, are existence itself. Truly the planets form the Person of Time, Kalapurusha, and their abode is the Wheel of Time, Kalachakra. Each person is the fulness of this Cosmic Identity. The whole wheel of energies, shaktichakras, is itself the fullness of Being. The...
By: Woman portal 007
Scholarly Read: Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development
2006-12-07 21:13:02 Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousnessby Evelyn Underhill from Christian Classics Ethereal LibraryWe have now no means of knowing, for instance, the amount of true mysticism which may have existed amongst the initiates of the Greek or Egyptian Mysteries; how many advanced but inarticulate contemplatives there were amongst the Alexandrian Neo-platonists, amongst the pre-Christian communities of contemplatives described by Philo , the deeply mystical Alexandrian Jew (20 B.C.-A.D. 40), or the innumerable Gnostic sects which replaced in the early Christian world the Orphic and Dionysiac mystery-cults of Greece and Italy. Much real mystical inspiration there must have been, for we know that from these centres of life came many of the doctrines best loved by later mystics: that the Neoplatonists gave them the concepts of Pure Being and the One, that the New Birth and the Spiritual Marriage were foreshadowed in the Mysteries, that Philo anticipated the the...
Evelyn Underhill - Demystifying Mysticism
2006-12-02 15:42:07 I've begun reading some of the works of Evelyn Underhill, an Anglican writer on mysticism, a novelist, a metaphysical poet, and a student of Baron Friedrich von Hügel. Early in the Twentieth Century she wrote many books on mysticism, some of which go a long way to demystify it (if you'll pardon the pun).In the first chapter of The Mystics of the Church she gives a useful description of the words "mystic" and "mystical":"Mystic" and "mysticism" are words which meet us constantly in all books that deal with religious experience; and indeed in many books which do not treat of religion at all. They are generally so vaguely and loosely used that they convey no precise meaning to our minds. and have now come to be perhaps the most ambigous terms in the whole vocabulary of religion. Any vague sense of spiritual things, any sort of symbolism, any hazy allegorical painting, any poetry which deals with the soul - worse than that, all sorts of superstitions and magical practices - may be, an...
Defining Christian Mysticism
2006-12-02 15:42:07 First, let me apologise for the disjointed order of these posts, although I shouldn't need to apologise - blogging gives an author the freedom to post items as they come to mind. The reader must wait in anticipation to see if and when some order emerges from the heap. Why should I deprive anyone of that adventure?Today I plan to begin discovering what mysticism is, and I will begin with a definition from Wikipedia:Mysticism from the Greek ???????? (mystikos) "an initiate" (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, ???????? (mysteria) meaning "initiation") is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious wareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an important source of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Traditions may include a belief in the literal existence of realities beyond empirical perception, or a belief that a true human perception of the world trancend...
Charismatic Mysticism
2006-10-11 19:30:04 In my last post I mentioned the more obvious mystical stream in the Evangelical church, based on the contemplative tradition. Much less recognised, however, and one of the primary motivations for my explorations, is the clear mystical content of the Charismatic movement. This movement, following on after the original Pentecostal movement of the early 20th Century, introduced the direct, tangible experience of God into the lives of many otherwise conservative, evangelical believers, who would probably neither have, nor desire, contact with anything they thought of as mystical.Evangelicals have long had a suspicion, even a fear, of mystics and mysticism, seeing their teachings and practices as closer to Eastern religions than true Christianity. Some of the old mystics appearing to engage with the occult did not help either. The modern equivalent is seen in the New Age movement. Yet, when we look at the goals of many mystics and those of many charismatics, they are identical - only the...
Reason, Mysticism and Christianity - Part 1
2006-09-18 04:45:02 So, what do I mean when I say I am a reasonable mystic? And then, in what sense can I be a reasonable mystic and a Christian?Such descriptions are open to many interpretations, and misinterpretations, depending on your perspective on the nature of mysticism, the role of reason, and the validity of Christianity as a worldview.When I coined the term "reasonable mystic" I was unaware of its having been used before. Since then a quick Google search throws up a number of references, many of which are my own websites. A few websites on the Beguines have it refering to William of St. Thierry (1085-1148), a friend of Bernard of Clairvaux. William described in emotional terms the human desire to know God in perfect love, and was also known as the "learned lover".Some other references were to a site by Douglas Muder called Tips for a Reasonable Mystic. It was interesting, but contained many ideas with which I could not agree. His characteristics of the next religion sound to much like humanis... |
|
 |
|
 |
