Category: philosophical counseling

• October 3, 2019

  Esotericism

  It is untrue that all knowledge can be shared with everyone, regardless of one’s preparation. Esotericism honors this fact. Some spiritual teachings are made available only to initiates and only if these initiates have, as Jesus once said, “ears to hear.” Initiates must purify their hearts in order that the ears of their hearts can…
• October 2, 2019

  Purification Of The Heart; Or, What The Ancients Knew

  The ancients knew that the way was not to seek what was other nor to add nor even to acquire but instead to purify. Slowly purified, the heart-mind would become open, receptive, available. The moderns did not know the inessentials must first be removed in order that the essential could ultimately show and shine forth.…
• October 1, 2019

  Why We Need Psycho-technologies Of Self-transformation

  We are squeezed on all sides by Total Work. That is, with the following: (a) with the Doer in the mode of the Worker; (b) thus also with the rise of Humanism; (c) with the loss of the cosmos and the birth of the disenchanted, mechanized universe (or multiverse); (d) with the death of God…
• September 30, 2019

  Total Work: My Conversation With Johannes Achill Niederhauser

  Johannes Achill Niederhauser discuss the cultural, historical, and philosophical implications of Total Work. I hope you find it edifying.  
• September 28, 2019

  Against ‘The Key To All Mythologies’

  A character in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (1871-2), Causabon, has been doing research, fruitless it turns out, for a book provisionally entitled The Key to All Mythologies. What if we too are Causabon? Here’s what I mean. Have we not been searching for the conceptual framework, all-encompassing religion, meta-metanarrative, behavioral economics tome, personal philosophy, personality tests, astrology, physics, evolutionary…