That's been my conclusion (pretty much) as well-it has happened several times in the past week where I get songs (in one case a 9 song sequence surrounding Tolkien's Beren and Luthien story) shuffling in accordance with what I was thinking or feeling.
But not always.
I have been of two minds (natch) about that-self annihilation-in point of fact.
Ken Wilber talks about the ascending vs. descending paths-evolution vs. involution. Perhaps they align with the two paths that you describe?
I am personally not too crazy about pure ascent (which might be equated...
Hey Sam.
I'll just point out that one possible sign of what you term the "Right Hand Path" might be a tendency to dichotomize everything. In other words if you are truly "Left Hand" you shouldn't get too attached to such dichotomies, as in assuming that Crowley's statement is "clearly"...
You are not alone, Sam.
My life is now pretty much a waking dream. These things happen to me literally multiple times a day, and, as you might infer from my avatar, often involve wildlife encounters (the very first one 24 years ago, involving a close encounter with a peregrine falcon 30...
In this thread, Someone made the curious point that we are "nothing special" as a species. A viewpoint which I've seen before (usually from yes diehard materialists), and one which has utterly astonished me anytime I have seen it. [And deeply puzzled me too, in the same way that seeing "Take...
Beside my point...
What's not to understand? My point is very simple-we are an AMAZING species, likely one of a kind. Do you disagree with that, the first part at least? If so, why? In the face of all that we are, all that we have accomplished?
I've seen many a materialist make this same exact claim...and frankly it's an utterly astonishing, as well as completely befudding, claim. We are likely the only intelligent technological species within 100,000,000+ light years, having created an immense number of accomplishments covering an...
Except that the skeptics/materialists abjectly refuse to acknowledge the bleak implications of their own philosophy. To a man (or woman). You simply NEVER see them discussing what living in such a spiritually dead and nihilistic universe would imply, would imply about their own personal lives...
Pity no responses. I had in fact just penned something in my journal today in very close alignment with the above sentiments.
The contrasts between my younger and older students (I am tutor, teach all ages) in the ways described above are very very stark. The younger ones can be very...
I told the others, might as well the broad public.
I've seen Egret Gal again these last two days, 2nd time just half an hour ago, both times outside my apartment complex.
She must have eaten a dozen lizards yesterday (3 today as I watched). Yesterday she walked within 5 feet me, as if I...
Not mine, exactly-and the matching myth in question is from a different culture...
I will also note that your handle provides yet another eerie synch to the events/connection here.
I will PM people if they really want to hear the whole thing.