1949: (more…)

“Techniques are available to teach the ‘Three Fold Process’ of separation, purification, and cohobation. As an example, in the plant world, one can extract the alchemical sulphur, which is the essential oil. Then, one can extract from the purified plant, the spirit. This exhibits itself as alcohol. Happily, ‘store bought’ ethyl alcohol will do nicely. Finally, the residue of the plant, the ‘fecal...

1990: (more…)

“A mythos may be defined as a conceptual framework which attempts to make an ineffable psychic reality capable of being grasped and experienced by the human psyche. A mythos by this definition is neither fact in the concrete physical sense, nor a theory in the intellectual sense. The mythos attached to a psychic reality enables us to approach such a reality in an experiential manner which is at once tentative and definite. It is...

“In psychology, physiology and medicine, whenever a debate between the mystics and the scientifics has been once and for all decided, it is the mystics who have usually proved to be right about the facts, while the scientifics had the better of it in respect to the theories.” – William James, The Will to...

“[The] Fourth Way defines two aspects of the individual: essence and personality. Essence is what a person is born with; personality is that which is acquired. All that is learned, both unconsciously through imitation and through acquired likes and dislikes, constitutes the outer part of the person, that which is changed by outer circumstances. Though personality is necessary, it must not be left to dominate essence or it will...