... -forms of distress ... Lonny" I like Ken Wilbers statement, "Psychotherapists are the pimps of ignorance." The only real spiritual dilemma is the ego's...
Hey Lon I guess I have to agree with Wilber, however, I would reframe it. Much of psychotherapy is useless. There are numerous citations to psychotherapeutics ...
There are numerous citations to psychotherapeutics ... it *De ... Lonny: This is debatable. It all depends on what your translating. Plenty of people translate...
There was a fascinating article in Spring issue of "Inquiring Mind" (a quarterly publication of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre (Marin) Calif., where...
Hi Chris - Buddhism clearly has a perspective on reality that is effective for those who participate, as do Daoists. We are into a slippery slope when we work...
So if I may add another model to the mix. In Rudolf Steiner's vision, our being is most easily divisible into an Upper Complex and a Lower Complex. The LC...
Hi Will, Slippery indeed. Buddhist phenomenology actually (originally) didn't deal with ego concepts, but rather with states and processes of mind, including...
There is no substantive "self" (anatma), just a hodge-podge of attachments to past and projections into future which we are conditioned to roll into ...
As for ego, we now have ... Lonny: The understanding of words evolves overtime just as our understanding of an herb, point function, or significance of a pulse...
... I have to agree wholeheartedly. But isn't there still an "I" who obtains clarity, who sees, an "I" who fulfills a destiny and achieves enlightenment. Do...
Kevin Wrote ... No, I must respectfully disagree. The illusion of separateness has resulted in wars, hatred, the destruction of our habitat, beginning with...
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These are the shamanic "teacher plants" you are referring to. Actually it is DMT that is released at death that allows for those to have near death...
... always making choices based on preferences and values. "I" am responsible for those choices. TO say there is no "I" goes to far and has the danger of...
Hi Luke: Â I couldn't agree with your statements more! Â Industrial society and now the electronic techological revolution deifies the cult of the individual...
Do you not agree that adherence to the illusion of separateness, however tenuous, is necessary to function in the world? Lonny: I think that a person with a...
It is said that enlightenment is the moment of re-unification, cognitively speaking, of awareness of the unified whole of all that exists. What happens after...
Dear All What a rich dialogue. I suppose I see the complexity of being as one...the wu ji. And paradoxically the yin and yang play through nuances of...
Agency and communion... This is the best solution I have seen to the linguistic problem of Oneness/ No Self/ Unity and function in the world. Thank you. What I...
Patricia, Yes, DMT is a fascinating molecule, produced in the pineal gland via the same enzymatic pathways and from the same raw materials (5-HTP) that...
Will, Thanks for the extensive bibiography. It's intimidating even for bibliophilic text-junkies. Meditation, definitely more efficient, but study also seems...
What I was attempting in too few words was to convey the idea that ego-as-"sense of individuality" (not ego-as-narcissism/pride) is a functional requirement of...
Meditation, definitely more efficient, but study also seems fulfilling and complimentary to meditative practices. Lonny: All lines of development need to be...
Hi everyone, This may be tangential to the discussion but I posted it today on my own board and thought it somewhat relevant here. I appreciate the opportunity...
Lon - These are interesting points of view, and Pu Songling is a fascinating read. I am referring to Han Dynasty literature which is arguably the earliest ...
Back to Will's illuminating characterization of C.J.Jung's morphology of psychic components (Mon, 1 Sep 2008)… (noting a minor exception, c.f. note below at...
Hey Lon - It is great to have you hangin' 'round. I think that what you bring forward here is highly pertinent because the practice of medicine and pulse ...
