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The esoteric tradition is also intuitive, focusing on our subtle, inner worlds, rather than our obvious outer one. It believes in a living, organic, spiritual, even conscious universe, rather than a dead, mechanical, oblivious one. It is also concerned more...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World
by Gary Lachman
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we—not this crude matter.
Source: The Empire Strikes Back
From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being...
Source: The Cosmic Perspective
The right brain is geared toward engaging with living things, McGilchrist says, and with recognizing overall patterns, meanings, and relations. It is attuned to the network of connections that links everything with everything else. Its fundamental attention is to the...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World
by Gary Lachman
The word ‘cosmology’ is derived from the ancient Greek word kosmeo, which means ‘to order’ or ‘to organise’, reflecting the belief that the universe could be understood and is worthy of analytical study. The cosmos had patterns, and it was...
Source: Big Bang
by Simon Singh
Indeed, imagination, linked to the right brain, is one of the central pillars of the esoteric tradition. As the historian of esotericism Antoine Faivre writes, imagination is “a kind of organ of the soul, thanks to which humanity can establish...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World
by Gary Lachman
Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....
Source: Cultural New Deal Urged to Bring Order
🎼 Song Excerpts
Everything I say falls right back into everything
Source: Still Sane
by Lorde
Well, we ain't sure where you stand - You ain't machines, and you ain't land - And the plants and the animals, they are linked - And the plants and the animals eat each other
Source: Never Ending Math Equation
by Modest Mouse
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down - You know the one that takes you to the places where all the things meet, yeah
Source: Bitter Sweet Symphony
by The Verve
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