Thinker and philosopher U.G. Krishnamurti, 89, died at Vallecrosia, Italy, on Thursday (March 28, 2007)
I’ve said on other pages here at telesterion and other places, that I got “enlightened” a while back. Whatever it is that happened, that I call “my enlightenment”, seems very similar to whatever it was that happened to UG Krishamurti. His [...]

Recent experiments seem to prove a radical new theory of what matter and particles are, a new model hinted at by an experiment performed twenty years ago – and as it turns out, not only may this new “exotic matter” be what the universe is really made of, we may have found it naturally occuring [...]

Why do we live in a universe that seems so perfectly constructed to allow us, that is, conscious lifeforms, we humans, to exist?
(I’m sure my readers are familiar with the idea, popular in modern cosmology, that we exist in such a universe because such a universe is required for us to exist. That is, that [...]

Here’s a youtube video of Ken Wilber doing something with an EEG machine – one of the early Mind Mirrors, from the look of the device. (not to be confused with Tim Leary’s Mind Mirror game)
It’s a shame that personal EEG machines are still so rare and expensive. They could be really useful to people [...]

I was talking about malamat recently, and thought, “This has been such an important idea for me, but very few other people know anything about malamat, so, start the conversation.” ;-}
“Malamat” is a sufi idea, one I think of as being popularized by the sufi saint-poet Hafiz, altho it seems to have been a part [...]