Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
A perspective that systems must be understood as integrated wholes, not merely as the sum of parts.
As McGilchrist argues, the Renaissance was a time when the two rival hemispheres came together briefly, that is, they “integrated,” and formed a creative union that produced remarkable works of art and architecture.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
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
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
But there is one new and encouraging element present in most of the recommendations of today's experts. They are recognizing the necessity of conceiving the world as one interdependent structure.
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
But I Feel It Still…
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling. Listen to reason, reason is calling.
