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Tag Archives: Reality
THE TRAP OF THE SELF, OR THE LIMITATIONS OF EXISTENCE, EPICTETUS SUBJECTIVE FREEDOM
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked … Continue reading
Posted in Being, Counsciousness, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Dreams, Ego, Epictetus, Freedom, Imagination, Inspiration, New Values, Ontology, Philosophy, Self, The Subjective, Uncategorized, Values, Virtue
Tagged Dreaming, Epictetus, Freedom, Illusion and Reality, Personal circumstances, Philosophy, Reality, The Self, The Unexamined life
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LANGUAGE AND COUNSCIOUSNESS
“Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious time of nothingness. Since I had no power … Continue reading
Posted in Adam, Advaita Vedanta, Ancient Religions, Angels, Atman, Aum, Brahman, Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Deconstruction, Ferdinand de Sassure, Haggada, Helen Keller, History, Ibn Arabi, Imagination, Inner Journey, Jacques Derrida, Language, Mandukya Upanishad, OM, Ontology, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pragmatics, Reality, Sanatana Dharma, Self, Semantics, Solipsism, Spirituality, Subjective, Syntactics, The Deaf, Theology, Transformation, Uncategorized, Wisdom, Words Meaning, Writing
Tagged Adam, Angels, Aum, Brahman, Consciousnesses, Deconstruction, Derrida, Ferdinand de Sassure, Haggada, Helen Keller, Ibn Arabi, Language, Linguistics, Mandukya Upanishad, OM, onomatopoeia, Origins, Reality, Reductionism, Self, Semantics, Semiology
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AQUILA, OPHIUCHUS, QUETZALCOATL, ALCHEMY OF TRANSFORMATION
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu We generally think we know what we want, and some of us may think they know who they are, but if you consider the … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemy, Archetypes, Aztecs, Aztlan, Cosmogony, Cosmology, Myth, Quetzalcoatl, Spirituality, Symbology, Tenochtitlan, Transformation, Transmutation
Tagged Advaita, Alchemy, Aquila, Aztecs, Aztlan, Chicomoztoc, Destiny, Dragons, Glorious Robe, Jivatman, Judas Thomas the Apostle, Mantle, Maya, Mesoamerica, Mexica, Nahuatl, Nirguna Brahman, Ophiuchus, Paramatman, Purpose of Life, Qutzalcoatl, Reality, Saguna Brahman, Tenochtitlan, The Pearl, Toltec, Transformation, Ultimate Meaning
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MYTH AND REALITY
MYTH, REALITY AND THE QUEST FOR TRUTH This is two little essays I wrote at different times, but here I bring together, they deal with Reality and Myth, two big words that are little understood, here I deconstruct. The truth … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmogony, Cosmology, Critical Thinking, Myth, Philosophy, Spirituality
Tagged Carl Jung, Cosmology, Dostoevsky, Education, Emotions, Enantiodromia, Facts, Holbein, Impartiality, Life Meaning, Methaphysical dimensions, Myth, Psyche, Reality, Truth, Values
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