“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