If you don’t know who Issac Bonewitz is, that’s not necessarily a surprise, for he represents an earlier more idyllic time in the study of the art form of intentional religion.
(I mispelled his name – my apologies, spelling is a personal weakness. His name was Isaac Bonewits. I leave my original mispelling as evidence of [...]

Several articles about the mental differences between lucky and unlucky people have come out recently, all apparently triggered by the book the author of this current article is trying to sell. However, the ideas involved are worth thinking about for esoteric practicioners and explorers, so I picked this article as an example of the bunch, [...]

A post in metafilter about AO Spare was interesting – in case you missed it – things rip by fast on metafilter – I archived it here. Basically a bunch of links to Spare art…

http://www.metafilter.com/76360/AOS

When I first started this website I included a link to the website of Jan Cox, not because I knew the fellow, but because he seemed like a more interesting than average teacher, influenced by the Gurdjieff materials, but with a style of his own. And he had one of the few websites of a [...]

An interesting short article – interesting to me mostly because it is a conversion and disillusionment story, and I think conversion and disillusionment are extremely important and understudied topics in the field of self-development.
Does it say anything new about Ken Wilber? No, I don’t think so, it merely expresses a common arc in the various [...]

Remembering U.G. Krishnamurti
“In 1939, when UG was 21 years of age, he went and met Sri Ramana Maharshi and asked him, ‘This thing called moksha, can you give it to me?’ Ramana reply, ‘I can give it, but can you take it?’ struck him like a ‘thunderbolt’ and set him up on a relentless search [...]

An interesting mp3, if you have the time, can be downloaded at RU Sirius’s website. There’s a few minutes of extraneous stuff at the beginning. It does kind of give you a sense of Jody’s take on this whole business. Some interesting descriptions of several gurus, mostly concentrating on their obvious flaws.
Nothing revolutionary, but I [...]

Doug Hofstadter of “Godel, Escher, Bach” fame has a new book about consciousness. I’ve not read it, I’m just referencing this review of it, which was rather low on actual detail. I found the mention of the death by brain tumor of Hofstadter’s love touching – it’s interesting how grief magnifies and shapes the consideration [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]