Wisdom Skill

“What is wisdom? What does it mean to be wise? This is a question we will speak to throughout this boook, but for now let us simply say that to be truly wise one has to understand experience. A high degree of transpersonal attainment is required to understand our relationship to the whole and our place in the world. Lacking that, most of us are conditioned by experience and do not understand it. At best, we have some sort of highly subjective external knowledge of it. Lost, confused and conflicted, we remain victims of the existential double break, removed from our Original Source and separate from the world. Our confusion expands to create the three primal dilemmas of identity, direction and meaning: we are doubtful as to who we are, where we are going, and, finally, the significance fo the things we perceive in the world”. Read the rest of this entry

Pure Experience is the end point of Self-knowledge. We can pinpoint the different aspects of Pure Experience and relate it, through metaphor, to the art of archery. We will correspond, in a creative fashion, many of the deeper areas of experience, to the different processes to drawing the bow and arrow. Read the rest of this entry

In the realm of healing, therapy has been one of the most fruitful forms of healing. Specific psychological conditions have been improved and even eradicated with this modern form of treatment. However, we will see that deeper states of mind, particularly, Nothingness, can provide a more general, existential healing that extends to larger life issues. Read the rest of this entry

Our frontal lobes, located on the front end of the skull, or at the forehead, is the most evolved area of the brain. Humans have large frontal lobes in comparison to mammals, because of the complexity of culture and the immense amount of knowledge and skills, necessary to engage this culture. Although there are many capabilities that this important lobe has, the major one involves execution and administration. It has been called the “executive” of the brain, because it organizes the other areas and lobes from the central and back areas of the brain Read the rest of this entry

The conventional identity moves from low to high and back again as part of the dual emotional self-image. Through the formation of various subpersonalities, we utilize these images and subsequently, influence our actions in the world. When we do any transformation on the identity, which involves their stabilization, particularly in True Philosophy, they go through a transformation. We can look at the way the different faculties operate or co-operate, through the analogy of a political institution, for as in a governmental organization, our faculties are like departments that Read the rest of this entry

In the book, “the Skill of Wisdom”, we mentioned that the ability to bring together a deeper, spacial area of the mind, referred to as Nothingness, together with being-in-the-world, is much like an actor, for she is two people at the same time: she is the person behind the role and she is the actor in the role. This metaphor has been used before, particularly with William Shakespeare in “As you like it”. Read the rest of this entry