Tag: Julian Jaynes
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The Creative Process
Training in esoteric psychology not only enables us to understand our own inner natures, but also provides a key to understanding much about how the world works.
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The Herald Angels Sing
Relying on the best of recent biblical exegesis, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger provides interesting details regarding the actual birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. He avoids the sentimentalism often surrounding the Christmas story, and instead brings out its essential meaning. Interested readers can consult the book. What I prefer to focus on here is the meaning rather…
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Madness and the Primordial State
The center of the True Man transcends the soul life, which is experienced as exterior to himself, just as much so as is the exterior world of the trees, birds, mountains, and oceans.
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The Fall from the Primordial State
Let us be clear. The Primordial State is not a “state of nature” as in Rousseau, but rather of supernature. But if in the Primordial State man lives in harmony with nature and the divine, with a direct awareness of God in his psyche as his life force, and with bonds of loyalty to his…