Category: Religion and mysticism

  • The Undiscovered Self — a book by Carl Jung

    I recently came across the book ‘The Undiscovered Self,’ by Carl Jung and I thought it so relevant to these times that I would draw attention to it. Of course, really one should read the book in full — it’s available here. It’s not a long book — around 80 pages — but in an age where 10 minutes is considered a…

  • The red pill and the blue pill

    In the movie ‘The Matrix’ Neo is offered the choice between two pills: the blue pill will keep him in the dream where he can believe whatever he wants to believe. The red pill ejects him into a reality. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe…

  • The seven layers of consciousness

    Or how we influence the world we live in In a previous article I wrote about dimensions and how what we call consciousness is an attribute of the fifth dimension. Consciousness also has many layers. Consciousness is layer zero. It is a point, outside of space and time. The first level is awareness. Our senses send signals to our brain which…

  • The two universes

    We live in two universes. There’s the one which most people are aware of, what we could call the physical plane, and another universe that is at right angles to it. In mathematics there is the concept of i numbers. Briefly, I’ll explain these. You are probably aware of the square of a number, which is a…

  • A Guide to Finding Contentment

    A sage once said: all your problems are because the world doesn’t work in the way you want it to. There are two ways of dealing with life. The way of the modern Western world: if you’re not satisfied with something then change it. And the traditional, Eastern way: if you’re not satisfied with something then…

  • When I rejected the beliefs of my parents

    It’s probably not completely true to say that this account marks the day I rejected the beliefs of my parents, rather it was a major event in an on-going process that led me to reassess all my assumptions. It was Christmas 1977, I think. I was living in the UK, in St. Albans in Hertfordshire…

  • The solution to all your problems

    All your problems get down to one issue: the world doesn’t go as you would like it to. Of course there are a number of ways that this presents itself. We may be disappointed that something didn’t happen (we didn’t win the lottery), or that something did happen (a car accident) or that we did…

  • A new Approach to the Consciousness-Mind-Body Problem

    Modern theories of consciousness, or the ‘Mind-Body Problem’ are rather depressing, as I’ve written about this here. This is a new and totally original theory on consciousness which, when understood, could completely change our research into this area of philosophy. Anyone who thinks beyond what we may call the superficial level has probably at one time…

  • Guilt. And why we should do good things

    Some years ago I saw an interview with a Jewish (or lapsed Jew to be more specific) professor where he talked about why he became an Atheist. He came from a very strict Jewish household, I think his father was a cantor at the local synagogue, but questioned his faith when he was 13 — around the…

  • Some questions for Atheists

    Question 1: How old were you when you decided that you weren’t going to believe in what you don’t understand? If you had attempted to explain heavier than air flying, or radio communication to someone in the 12th century you would undoubtably be met with disbelief, and your attempts at an explanation would probably just…