Vase With Flowers On the Window, by Paul Gauguin I meditate in the early dawn.

Competition, ambition, and success are the gods of the particularly prosperous society we live in today.

You have collected so much, not only books, houses, the bank account, but inwardly: the memories of insults, the memories of flattery,...

Freedom from authority is an extraordinary thing. It is called Spiritual Anarchism .

Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter In her elegiac essay " Into the Woods " poet and scholar Ruth Padel writes: ...

Epona, by Susan Seddon-Boulet ... The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters You Rumi … In this essay I will pr...

Art by Daniel Bogni The Stoic concept of Apatheia refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions.

You go to the secret valley to sit in peace and ask the philosophical question: What is a religious mind?

The beauty of truth and its subtleties is like the mist in the old garden.  It is not in belief and dogma; it never is where man can...

Painting by Aert van der Neer In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn.

Franz Simm: Illustrationen zu Goethes A phenomenon which I have returned to many times in my books, especially in my book, Lucif...

Merlin, by Alan Lee In Part One of this article, My Life as a Vagabond , I described how I began to use alcohol in order to cal...

From: The DruidCraft Tarot In my Ebook,  Karen Blixen – The Devil´s Mistress , I described how I began to use alcohol in order to calm ...

When I´m talking about a coming Matrix Hybrid between Western Consumer Capitalism and Chinese Communism this isn´t even a prophesy. We...

It was in 1990. I had just left my work in Harrods in London in order to pursue a life of freedom and adventure.

Mystical, by Kevin Miles and Wendy Schaefer-Miles We are slaves to the modern culture, we are the modern culture. I have suggested...

The self-proclaimed “philosopher” Ken Wilber (he dropped out of graduate school where he was studying biochemistry) has sought to brin...

Mystical Night, by Michael Z Tyree It all starts with the Wholeness. The Wholeness is indescribable since it can´t be put in oppos...

Yellow Flowers by Krupa Shah  “You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shal...

La Plage de Tangier, by David Minett  I´m using the Amazon used book market quite a lot. It can be interesting to receive a used b...

Art by Susan Seddon Boulet You and I are walking in the forest. We are taking a journey, together, walking along a quiet path, as ...

Fur, Feather, Tooth and Nail" by Arthur Rackham “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wo...

Art by Kelly Louise Judd Have you heard about the Keepers of the Stories ?

The Star Fishers, by Jeanie Tomanek "A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytell...

Bouquet of Sunflowers, by Monet The mind that is whole has a quality of passive listening presence. It cares, and has this qual...

"He Too Saw the Image in the Water" by Kay Nielsen  (Kay Nielsen spend his last years in poverty since nobody was interested...

Birdbrain, by Lori Field Long ago the trees thought they were people. Long ago the mountains thought they were people. Long a...

Painting by Gleb Goloubetsk We are all seeking spiritual experiences, and we are bragging about spiritual experiences and abilit...

'We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery'. G.K. Chesterton The British writer and idler, Tom Hodgkinson,  h...

Look at all the birds, the trees, and at the dirty streets. Look at people. Look at your parents and teachers; notice how they talk to...

Flower Painting by Anita Nowinska There is a lot of fear in our lives. But when we talk about fear we must also go into the ques...

Why do you believe anything that you read? It does not matter whether it is in the Bible or in the Gita or in the sacred books of othe...

According to Aristotle (De Philosoph, fr. 8), wisdom (Sophia) covers any ingenious invention and conception (all of which ultimately a...

I have told about thought distortions, and how important it is that, seeing how inevitably corrupt the various types of religious, sec...

by Carme Magem In fact, it is only his body that lives and has its residence in the state; his soul, however, holds all this to b...

Streets of Naples, Italy The hunger after doing something positive, opposite the negative, makes us strive after being something e...

A central inspirator for my philosophical counseling practice is Pierre Hadot. Hadot's recurring theme is that philosophy in Anti...

The Ancient Greek Healing Tradition called Incubation. Incubation was also a spiritual practice. Question: I have been meditating f...

In my book  A Dictionary of Thought Distortions  I claim that the Sophists used thought distortions as a way of getting on in the worl...

Alley Of The Dream, by Leonid Afremov  Every morning you are born out of Hara. You come from Omphalos, the Navel of the Worl...

Remedios Varo—Solar Music Our language, all our fictional productions, are reflections of the universal images in the great vision...

Peter Kingsley is an English scholar who work with the assumption that philosophy is a spiritual practice with a spiritual purpose. Th...

Who is Eckhart Tolle? Wikipedia says: Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, is a spiritual teacher. He is a German-born reside...

”Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don´t know you´re a member until it´s too late to get out.” Robert Anton Wilso...

The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual , is a book by Christopher Hyatt. Christopher Hyatt was an American psychologis...