The Fifth Element

DarkMatterOwen K Waters – The legendary  Fifth Element holds the key to the answer to one of today’s top mysteries in the worlds of physics and cosmology. Scientists estimate that 84% of the matter in the universe is composed of invisible dark matter, but they have no idea what it is. With a short venture into the world of metaphysics, you are about to find out the answer!

In ancient Greece, all material things were said to be composed of a mixture of the four elements ofearth, fire, water and air. There was also said to be a more subtle, fifth element. This was called the quintessence (literally, “fifth element”), implying its very delicate or refined state of existence. Continue reading

Enlightenment: It’s All Within

Consciousness Wes Annac – We tend to search for fulfillment everywhere but the one place we find it in abundance: in ourselves. We accumulate external things in hopes that they’ll fill the void within, unaware that true fulfillment comes from exploring that sense of emptiness.

Spiritual seekers are no different, as we also avoid the emptiness with external things we believe will increase or enhance our spirituality. Crystals are a good example. We convince ourselves they help our spiritual growth, which they can — if we don’t use them to avoid doing the difficult inner work that leads to evolution. Continue reading

The Collapse of The Enlightenment

socialismPaul Rosenberg – We are watching the Enlightenment collapse before us in real time. I’ll be fairly brief in my explanation of why this is so and how it came about, but it strikes me as something we should understand.

Bear in mind that what remains of the Enlightenment is collapsing for structural reasons. I haven’t formed this discourse around political or academic theories, I’m basing it on facts and direct observations. Obviously I’m simplifying (one can’t write history any other way), but minus the inevitable exceptions and complications, this is what happened and what is happening. Continue reading

‘Fear’ – Feel Like You Need An Energy Shower?

danaMrkichWe are currently hearing about so many acts and intentions of extreme violence. This is on top of the mountain of abuse being uncovered that has been perpetuated for decades by those whose job it was to protect innocents. These issues are all separate, yet connected by a common thread which at the end of the day is a violation of everyone’s right to live freely, in peace, not doing harm to others, with sovereignty over their own body and life. 

Current events can make you feel like the darkness is winning, and that the world is being over-run by madness. Fear and a general feeling of yuckiness is in the air, so it’s a good time to give yourself an energy shower. I am not saying to dig our heads in the sand about what is happening. Quite the opposite, clearing ourselves of fear helps us to see, feel and act with greater clarity and effectiveness, while fear makes one feel helpless, hopeless, and can have a debilitating ‘I just want to crawl into foetal position’ affect on us (unless you are in immediate danger in which case it triggers the important fight or flight survival instinct).  Continue reading

Romanticism

SorenDreier  February 13 2014

Romanticism was a movement of the mid 1700s until the midpoint into 1800s; it was a movement of painting, art, and writing that emphasized warmth, color and softness.

I was very influenced in the early days of my writing by romantic French writers like Stendhal, Flaubert and Baudelaire who said: “Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.”

Many intellectual historians have seen Romanticism as a key movement when perceptions shifted as a reaction against the logical thinking that was then described as the Age of Enlightenment, during which time people felt reason and facts were the only way to go. Wikipedia says “While thinkers of the Enlightenment emphasized the primacy of deductive reasoning, Romanticism emphasized intuition, imagination and feeling.”

PaintingEnthusiasm_DanielMacliseYou can see the color and romance in this painting by Irish painter Daniel Maclise.

I realized that the things I teach today are a return to Romanticism for we seek to establish an order built on softness, colourful expression and tender sentiments. In a world of perpetual war and the grey, yang-style harshness of a scary media, and the cold logic of technology, and a New World Order that we don’t want, romanticism offers us a ray of hope—a softer way.

I’ve seen it manifest in myself as adoration and admiration, like watching a dog in the park, a baby in a carriage, an old lady hobbling across a street, a sunset in the desert. It is all about respect for Gaia and our humanity. It is about sensuality, love and esteem.

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