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Greetings, all! I wonder if you good folks could help me with a research question? The subject might also spark an interesting discussion. I have in my cluttered toybox of a memory the recollection of a pholosophical/theological idea--that we and all of creation exist from instant to instant...

[The myth, continued.] It’s tough to learn and grow and *become* when You are All that Is. Ungrowing, unlearning, unmoving is stasis . . . You might as well be dead. Many human myths see the Divine dividing Itself into many facets, many separate Be-ings, beginning with a separation of male from...

With respect, Thomas, I disagree with you on this point. If religion was something created by God and given to humanity, that would be full justification, I would imagine, for the juvenile “my God is the only true God and you are an evil heretic or an infidel” nonsense that has plagued religious...

[Quick aside to Brian]: Absolutely! My book deals with, among other things, Schrodinger wave functions, the Observer Effect, and the nature of both consciousness and reality as holographic consequences of wave interference--and how these can be applied to magic. I'm always happy to bat...

Prophecy is very much alive within certain branches of Christianity. I used to be a Charismatic Christian, a group that is not confined to any single religion but which includes members from all established Christian churches and even some Messianic Jews (Jews for Jesus; they consider...

For me, religion is a specific set of practices, usually, but not necessarily practiced by a group and drawn from a specific religious tradition. By this definition, Catholicism, Mormonism, Presbyterianism, Wicca, Islam, and all such institutions created and organized by humans are religions...

Thanks, littlemissattitude! It DOES have quite a lot to do with it, especially if we try to understand consciousness as a quantum phenomenon. A few years ago--1994, I believe--some wonderfully evocative experiments were carried out at the University of Mexico. Two test subjects spent time...

LOL! Nah, de Ferrière had it wrong. You can't trust demons to get it right, so I prefer to do it myself!

This aspect of things touches very closely to the whole question of free will versus predestined behavior. Wonderful! Yes, I've read the Crowley story. The full story is this. According to the friend's account, Crowley was walking down a sidewalk with that friend some feet behind a stranger...

Oh, dear! Now *I* sound like a New Age fluffy bunny. In my hyper-scientific days, I used to rail at the metaphysical weirdos who spoke breathlessly of "vibrations." When I said "vibratory shift would include" I was speaking theoretically or potentially, not in absolutes. My apologies. What...

I'll go along enthusiastically with littlemissattitude and say "all of the above." Geeze, Brian! You should know better than to set me off on this topic! What . . . are you looking for another twenty-page thesis from me?! Okay, here goes. Hopefully for less than twenty poges. Some folks...

As always, so much depends on the definition of terms involved, as well as in the personal experience of the definer. I agree with bruagach's discussion on pantheism and panentheism, with the added statement that we find few examples of these philosophies in a pure or absolute form. Even in...

I, too, question this story. It has all the trappings of an urban legend. But--my God! It's hilarious, in a gruesome way! Please, please cite the source, if you have it! I can relate a story--not NEARLY so dramatic, but it is true. Perhaps thirty years ago, I was still a Charismatic Christian...

I've been doing some research recently (for my current book) about coherence in the vibration of water molecules within cellular microtubules, and how this effect may explain both how information--especially about healing--is transmitted through the body or to other people, and how this may...

Great! Back in Pennsylvania, where I used to live, up in the mountains, there was a ski resort area where, every Halloween someone rigged up a witch-go-splat much like this one . . . but put it more than half-way up the side of a telephone pole, maybe thirty feet off the ground!

Hey, guys! Keep in mind that--whatever Siege or her parents might have done about American citizenship--she remains a British subject until the Queen tells her otherwise. You've GOT to take her back! She's still yours! I agree completely, Thomas. And I don't think I was misunderstanding you so...

And here comes Part II. The closest thing to rapturist political intervention in world events I can think of in the '70s was support—by a VERY tiny minority of churches—for a similarly fringe-element splinter of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. You see, one of the many interpretations of Second Coming...

Hi, folks. Okay, Siege . . . what's the idea of dragging me over here from my nice, safe hidey-hole over in Alternative Spirituality? ;^D Thomas—respectfully, I can't agree that rapturist theology is connected in any serious way with recent U.S. politics. We have, of course, the New Testament...

Actually, a wide range of studies show that most plants appear to feel and communicate more than we give them credit for. One tree in the forest isd attacked by a particular beetle, and within hours every tree in the area is secreting a chemical designed to repell that insect. How do they...

And an excellent two cents they are, too. I remember the theory you're talking about--or maybe it's a related concept. I seem to remember it surfacing in the late '80s. The idea was, if I recall, that humans didn't have a true sense of individuality. As you say, they didn't think the same way we...