A Flowering of Thought I started the day using a new edible. High, yes. Other, … most certainly. Via the Collective Imagination, we have been gifted with the “Terminator” series of films. The essential riddle: Are we in danger of making intelligences that will take over the world, and murder all human beings, in order …
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Broken Souls
Broken Souls In my daily digital New York Times today, there was another story of a mass shooting, only four dead this time. From one point of view, we also have serious drug problems, not just in America, but in many other places. Still … we Americans are appalled at the destruction of lives that …
Student Shooting Deaths – a meditation in a minor key
Student Shooting Deaths – a meditation in a minor key There are certain logical ideas that follow from the Idea of Karma and Reincarnation. One is that the billions of human beings, that are in the Zone of the Earth, are all volunteers. Yet, evil happens, so we need to find a place for it …
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musings and tales
Musings, … from the realm of pure ideas. If you put a cross in a circle, you get four quadrants. The picture with this song is a Hopi version of this symbol. Correspondences can be made with the four elements, the four directions, and so forth. I have written, for example, that the people of …
Anthroposophy, the Double, and Depression
Anthroposophy, the Double, and Depression Please keep in mind that I don’t use the word “Anthroposophy” to mean familiarity with the works of Rudolf Steiner. To me, Anthroposophy is personal awake cognition of our own experiences of soul and spirit. “Anthroposophy is a path of cognition from the spiritual in the human being to the …
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The Collective Imagination, and the Language of the Creation
The Collective Imagination and the Language of the Creation [the image is of the Moon over Mt. Shasta, a photograph by Craig West] Valentin Tomberg, in his remarkable book on Law: “The Art of the Good”, makes this statement, which is true about Law, and also about a great deal more: “The path runs from …
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Flying High
Flying High – A Stoner’s Guide to Enlightenment, Living – Thinking, and Shamanistic Self-Initiation – purchase book here: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/joel-a-wendt-and-holy-mother-earth-mother-/flying-high/paperback/product-ge526k.html?page=1&pageSize=4 dedication: To my youngest daughter Brie, and all her contemporaries, … I wish to apologize on behalf of all the baby boomers, and the rest of the new elderly, for leaving such a mess behind, with …
Geopolitics and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Geopolitics and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse – some phenomenological observations – An Apocalypse is the revealing of something hidden. In our case, on the threshold of the Third Millennium, the “hidden” includes the Second Becoming of Christ (the Maker) in the Realm of Living Thought, and: the remembering of the Holy Mother – …
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Does God Have a Double?
Does God Have a Double? I like cheeky questions. A week or so ago I was getting depressed … again. My usual interventions didn’t seem to be working. Then I remembered that depression is – in part – anger turned inward. So I released my current level of rage on one and all, including the …
In the Absence of Faith
In the Absence of Faith It is possible for more than one idea to be true at the same time. Given the Ukraine crisis, much valid thought has been produced in Anthroposophical Venues (such as Adriana Koulias’ recent piece on the Anthroposophical Facebook page). This work is not so much wrong, as it is incomplete. …
Fake Ancient Alien Theorist Foolishly Visits the Collective Imagination 