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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Né il comunismo né il capitalismo sono assoluti
Il motivo risiede nel fatto che il mondo (e noi con lui) è andato in una certa direzione. Quando pensiamo a comunismo e capitalismo siamo sempre tentati di dare risposte assolute. Il comunismo è fallito. Vero. Il capitalismo restava l’unica soluzione, e sta fallendo anche lui…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Hofmann's lament over recreational LSD
Albert Hofmann lamented the use of LSD as an inebriating drug rather than a therapeutic
LSD deserves indigenous reverence
treatment or spiritual tool, which made serious research on the drug impossible. He called the recreational use of LSD “careless and irresponsible” and felt it to be a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and meaning of these kinds of substances. He believed that we should…
Hofmann on the West's spiritual crisis
Hofmann strongly believed that there was a spiritual crisis in Western civilization, and argued that society must shift from “the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Il maestro va usato e gettato via
RIALZATEVI! Il mondo là fuori ve lo sta maledettamente SPECCHIANDO! Ma solo ""chi avrà orecchie per udire e occhi per vedere"" saprà coglierlo.. Questo è il periodo in cui bisogna dire tutto in tutti i modi possibili per svegliare le persone... ◊◊◊◊◊◊ Il lavoro di risveglio…
L'energia del lavoro interiore non si perde
L'energia impiegata per un atto di lavoro ◊◊◊◊◊◊ interiore viene immediatamente convertita per un nuovo impiego; quella impiegata dal lavoro passivo è perduta per sempre." Gurdjieff
Dio è ciò che sceglie di essere
Sperimentare pienamente la tua divinità vuol dire connetterti con la forza creatrice racchiusa in te. Dio è qualunque cosa scelga di essere. Tu sei quel potere diESSERE. La creazione non è esterna a te, è la tua esperienza di te stesso...
L'ultimo tratto del cammino si fa da soli
Non ci sono scorciatoie che possono indicare il cammino, ognuno di noi deve fare questa strada da solo. I libri sacri, i maestri, le religioni, possono aiutare, ◊◊◊◊◊◊ servono, ma come gli ascensori che ci portano sù facendoci risparmiare le scale. L’ultimo pezzo del cammino…
Accettare anche l'assenza di pace
La pace arriverà solo a colui che è pronto ad accettare anche l'assenza di pace. Osho
Un sentiero spirituale per migliorare il mondo
Seguire un sentiero spirituale non vuol dire abbandonare il mondo ma lavorare per migliorarlo. Lama Gangchen
I veri miracoli avvengono nella mente
I veri miracoli sono i cambiamenti della mente in modo positivo. Lama Gangchen
È la verità a trovare noi
Non siamo noi a trovare la Verità. È la Verità a trovare noi. Dobbiamo solo prepararci". "Si può invitare un ospite che non si conosce? No. Ma si può mettere la casa in ordine, così che, quando l'ospite arriva, si è pronti a riceverlo e a conoscerlo". Tizianio Terzani
Spiritual But Not Religious? You’re Not Alone | Life And Style | The Guardian
The self, spirituality and atheism
While denouncing religion in public, it turns out Harris spent years studying with gurus in India, going on meditation retreats, and using mind-expanding drugs to feel boundlessly at one with the universe. His new book, Waking Up, makes a powerful case that there’s no…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Waking up just long enough to know I'm asleep
WHAT “THE ACID” (as I was coming to think of it) had done was to blow my so-called spiritual trip out of the water. I saw that Advaita philosophy had become just a way of coasting along, vaguely assuring myself that I was consciousness itself from time to time. It had no…
Underhill's five stages of mysticism
Gradually I was reading more and more religious material, and the most satisfying overview I found was the model proposed by Evelyn Underhill in her Mysticism. In this classic work she breaks down Christian spirituality into five major stages, the first three of which are…
Can a drug vision equal a saint's?
In any case, how can you take a vision that a saint or contemplative has worked toward for years and say that it is the “same” as one produced by dropping a dose of a drug? In the first place, the revelation, which has crowned years of effort, remains and transfigures your life…
Neem Karoli Baba takes LSD
During the ’60s, when the debate as to whether psychedelics afforded an authentic mystical experience was at its height, there had appeared to be only one solution: to find someone who had experienced both states and could affirm or deny their identity. The only person who had…
Osho's fourth body
Earlier we saw that Advaita Vedanta was putting down roots in the West and beginning to develop into a new nondualistic philosophy. This is the context in which I’d like—very briefly—to prospect a possible psychedelic/spiritual interface, particularly in terms of the two…
Psychedelics as door openers
Earlier we looked briefly at the career of the American teacher Ram Dass. Here was someone who had been deeply involved with psychedelics who, while continuing to acknowledge the importance of the role they had played in his life, returned to more traditional forms of religion…
Ram Dass overlooked Ramana Maharshi
To the best of my knowledge, he never defined more precisely what he meant by “catalyst” or “door opener,” nor mentioned whether he had explored the possibility of using psychedelics and awareness practice in tandem. More significantly, he overlooked another teacher who, in…
The dark night of the soul
Several times already I’ve referred to Evelyn Underhill’s analysis of individual religious evolution, but largely only in relation to the stages of Conversion, Purgation, and Illumination. But these constitute only the introductory steps to a full spiritual life (which…
In the end there is only Grace
The bitterness and sense of betrayal (the recourse to smack or fundamentalist Buddhism) are totally in accord with Underhill’s descriptions of the Dark Night. For only true self-obliteration—the old medieval self-naughting—can leave us totally, unconditionally open for the…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Socrates' daimon was an external sign
Socrates always claimed to follow his own daimon, what Cicero called a ‘divine something’: a personal god or spirit, what we might be inclined to think of as conscience. However, Socrates’ daimon was not some ‘inner voice’, but an external sign or command that would suddenly…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Spiritual selflessness as a freak pathology
The environment seems real but unfamiliar, but they know that they are. What is it that Descartes said? I know that I am, but what is this I that I know?’ This sounds very similar to Suzanne Segal’s far longer-term experience, and to the kind of state of selflessness that many…