• Two quotes from James Hilton

    Years and years ago, I was entranced by James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. (It was to continue that story that I wrote my own novel Messenger.) It has seemed to me that much of the essence of that book can be deduced from these two quotations: First, the high lama saying to Conway, “Laziness in doing…

  • Making the transition

    This is a somewhat unusual post, for me, but it has its points of interest. It came to me via a friend, from the British paper (a very good one) The Guardian. Particularly note the website toward the end, http://www.transitiontowns.org/ NATURAL BORN SURVIVORS By Harriet Green The Guardian May 2, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/02/communities.fossilfuels/print For three years,…

  • Hemingway’s Puzzlement About the Soul

    My recurring theme is that our culture, by turning its back on its spiritual roots, has lost contact with the reality of spiritual (that is, non-physical) life. In so doing, it has lost contact with reality, for how can you understand the meaning of things if you systematically disregard a significant portion of what exists?…

  • Sri Aurobindo on the coming of a spiritual age

    “The coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital, and physical existence of man, but perceive that a greater evolution is the real goal of humanity, and attempt to effect it in themselves and lead others…

  • Ouspensky on lying

    “What is lying? “As it is understood in ordinary language, lying means distorting or in some cases hiding the truth, or what people believe to be the truth. This lying plays a very important part in life, but there are much worse forms of lying, when people do not know that they lie. I said……

  • The vague intimations of D.H. Lawrence

    When all you have is a hammer, they say, all the world looks like a nail. When all you have is a sure sense that “things aren’t right,” all you can do is cast about, hoping to find a way to make it right. If you cannot believe in that, you are reduced to trying…

  • Lord Clark on our civilization

    I well remember the series. Back in the early 1970s, I was living in Florida, working as an assistant audio-visual librarian for the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library system. Somehow — can’t remember, now, it’s been so long — I found time to watch the ten-part television series “Civilization” by Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark. The shows…

  • Well, guess what?

    With a little help from my friends–okay, a lot of help from my friends–here we are. Now to the fun part. I will soon start posting examples of the TGU material as illustrated by sketches. I have been going back over the original TGU material that Rita and I “downloaded” back in 2001 and 2002, and…

  • “Those questions are metaphysical”!

    When I read this Letters at 3 a.m. column by Michael Ventura, my reaction was, roughly, “YES! YES! YES! He gets it!” Not that the fact that he gets it is a surprise, but the way he uses his mind as a precision tool is always such a delight. Science is based in metaphysics. There…

  • If you can’t figure out why the buttons don’t work…

    It’s because the site is still under development, but we didn’t want to freeze this blog while waiting to finish the site. We’ll get there. Meanwhile, if this site is new to you, there’s a boatload of material here: Check the archives, for instance.