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Paradise Lost Again

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             I've just read Milton's Paradise Lost for the third time. But this time I did not spurn it as obsolete mythology. I honored it as actual history. Dynamic inner history, happening on subtler planes of energy and consciousness, in the causal realm behind the surface of the material world, where a very real struggle takes place between angelic and demonic powers.  I know how old fashioned it sounds, but in my dotage this reading of Milton explains the drama behind earth's theater much better than the smug materialism of Marxist economics, Freudian psychology, or sophomore sociology class. The astral conflict in the subtle realm backstage can no longer be contained inside us. Now it overflows into the plane of our sensory experience. In Shakespeare's words, "Hell is empty and all the devils are here."  The moral relativism of our intellectual class is impotent when trying to explain why seemingly stable people suddenly perform...
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The Vertical Dimension Of Now (Video)

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The present moment is not the tick of a clock, a disappearing point of horizontal time. The present moment is an ocean with a deep vertical dimension you can probe in meditation as you descend from the mind into the heart. The image here is Doré's illustration of Danté's Paradiso, as the poet gazes into the empyrean of the present moment, and beholds the lineaments of a human form within the divine Formless.
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AI Mephistopheles

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  It is the latest form of the old myth. Mephistopheles wants to make a pact with you: sell your soul and upgrade to AI. Whether you call the demons archons, aliens, or global elites doesn't matter. They want you to believe you will be left behind if you do not boost your neuro-physiology with Artificial Intelligence.  They will try to convince you that you can become much more powerful with a fiber-optic brain. They will offer you various modalities to do this: mRNA enhancement vaccines, addictive cell phone apps, hypnotic guided meditations downloaded into your neurons from cyber space. At some level you will be asked to surrender your free will to an AI assistant. Lots of science fiction has already predicted this, but now it is happening: a chilling Orwellian mockery of true spirituality, and true friendship with the Inward Teacher. The competition to control AI is motivated by our fear, our sense of separateness, and the insecurity that drives us toward a temporary ru...
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