Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake
Category: Metaphysics
Essays concerning aspects of the exploration of Nature not yet being handled by science.
Essays concerning aspects of the exploration of Nature not yet being handled by science.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake
Graham Hancock seems to think that modernity will lead to the death of the human soul.
We long to visit other worlds, other planes—Færieland, Elysium, Asgard—as easily as stepping through a door.
In horror movies, the closed door is a source of terror. Properly, such doors should be a source of wonder.
Next time you find a small, oddly shaped, or out of place door. Try the handle. You never know what wonders might await you on the other side.
An infinite number of infinite Universes [Aions]…means that everything that is possible is real. Given that the laws of nature can differ from Aion to Aion, ‘impossible’ becomes a meaningless word.
It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party’s over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on—but you have to leave. And it’s going on without you. That’s the reflection that I think most upsets people about their demise. All […]
…there is strong evidence that there was no beginning to Reality. It seems very likely, now, that we live in a Universe that is part of a Multiverse. If any of the eight different scenarios now being contemplated is true, there are an infinite number of Universes which are of different ages, configurations, and even physical laws. What’s more, they are being born all the time. Given this, there is no reason to think that the process will ever end and—more significantly—that it ever began.
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, […]
Atheism is, in the broadest sense, an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists. The etymological root for […]
NOTE: it is in the following sense that I use the words ‘magick’ and ‘magic,’ in my fiction comporting, as it does, to an actual part of nature. —GTJ Magick, in the context of Aleister Crowley‘s Thelema, is a term used to show and differentiate the occult from performance magic and is defined as “the Science and Art of causing Change […]