Many thanks to all who attended last week’s Love or Fear seminar at NYOC. We had a full house (they had to find more chairs) and it was an enthusiastic group. Each one of these seminars is different because each group brings their own experiences and concerns. We would like to get enough people familiar with the Level 1 concepts to get a solid group for Level 2. We’ve been pushing the envelope at the Wednesday class in Staten Island and there’s a ton more to share in Level 2. Keep coming to the Level 1 seminars though. There’s a… Read More
Mystical Physicists
February 7, 2012 By 4 Comments
In the mystical consciousness, Reality is apprehended directly and immediately, meaning without any mediation, any symbolic elaboration, any conceptualization, or any abstractions; subject and object become one in a timeless and spaceless act that is beyond any and all forms of mediation. Mystics universally speak of contacting reality in its “suchness,” its “isness,” its “thatness,” without any intermediaries; beyond words, symbols, names, thoughts, images. —Ken Wilber This quote is from Wilber’s Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Greatest Physicists. It is a collection of essays from the likes of Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Einstein, Planck, Pauli,… Read More
Are You Experienced?
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… mind is always now. There is really no before and after for mind. There is only a now that includes memories and expectations. But I grant that our language is not adequate to express this… Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize physicist (yea, the cat guy) In Taijiquan: Through the Western Gate, I discuss the importance of discerning insubstantial (xu) from substantial (shi). That is, stuff from non-stuff. I won’t recapitulate that here, but it is important to remember that both are present in every thing. Mutually arising. And we see the aspect we focus on. It is analogous to… Read More