Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 2

October 15, 2015
[Note: Part 1 can be accessed in the July 2015 Archives.]

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on metaphysics/ontology, the first branch of the 5-branch system of classical philosophy -- metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, esthetics – that Ayn Rand identifies as her philosophical hierarchy. Although I resonate with this 5-branch system, I do not resonate with all of Rand’s viewpoints in relation to each branch -- and as made clear in Part 1 of this series, this particularly holds true regarding metaphysics, which unlike Rand, I marry with spiritual ontology.

In Part 2, I will focus on epistemology as it pertains to “cracking the cosmic code.” Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that considers how man acquires and validates knowledge. Scores of academic texts have been written on this subject, but none along the lines of this brief essay, which focuses on epistemology as it pertains to “waking up.” Moreover, although I have great regard for Rand’s seminal text “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,” and highly recommend it for all truth seekers, the epistemology I espouse here will only be tangentially along the lines of Rand’s.… Read the full article

Nassim Haramein = New Age Huckster

October 3, 2015
About a year ago, a Facebook fan of my spiritual teachings introduced me to Nassim Haramein’s far-out physics/metaphysics. But I didn’t have much interest in them, because (despite a year of physics in high school and another in college), I lacked the background to fully understand and judge them (and I wasn’t about to invest the time and energy to do so). But I was intrigued by the fact that Haramein, a non-degreed autodidact, was being touted by some as the new Einstein. 

When my Facebook fan continued to post Haramein articles at my Facebook group page – Electrical-Hermetic Christianity -- I Googled Haramein and learned that he had little, if any, credibility in the mainstream physics community. And the physics papers that he had published were not in respected peer review journals.  At that time there was still a Wikipedia.org page of Haramein, but now it has been removed. Wikipedia, citing criticism of Haramein’s physics, explains why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nassim_Haramein_… Read the full article

Deconstructing Donald Trump

September 3, 2015

Any astrologer worth his salt is intimately familiar with the iconic Grant Lewi’s brilliant 144 Sun-Moon combination descriptions in his book “Heaven Knows What.” With this in mind, I’m going to present Lewi’s description of Donald Trump’s Sun/Moon combination, Gemini/Sagittarius. Then I’ll add a few comments of my own about the Donald.

“You are a romantic: you believe in the far away and long ago. Things at a distance make an appeal to you with the result that you are always on the move. Either you are actually traveling or you are getting the satisfaction of mobility in stories and yarns, real and imagined, of out-of-way places such as you read of in romances. This is O.K. so long as your yarn-spinning stays in the realm of the imagination purely, but when you apply that imagination of yours to your friends and start to tell tales about them – look out! You love to hold the center of the stage and to appear to know the inside dope on any and all subjects -- with the result that what you say is frequently unreliable.… Read the full article

Sam “Hardly a Sage” Harris

August 12, 2015
[This is the Introduction to my forthcoming text (eta 2016) on Sam "Hare-Brained" Harris. "Soapbox" Sam seeks to enlighten us with his Hubris-filled pontifications -- but after people read my book, they will recognize Sam for what he is: Sam "the Sham."]

Many people consider Sam Harris a paragon of rationality and gnosis, an exemplar of enlightened postmodern wisdom who marries science and spirit -- but I don’t. In my "Letter to Sam Harris," I seek to systematically deconstruct Harris’s core philosophical arguments. I seek to “behead him” with my Dharma Sword, exposing him as an overrated thinker and failed mystic.

But I don’t just aim to deconstruct Harris’s principal philosophical arguments, I also provide constructive counter-arguments, in the form of integral solutions, to the “problems” he identifies.

In my Letter, I touch just briefly upon Harris’s anti-Islamic and pro-torture arguments, which I agree with, and instead focus on his arguments that I find most objectionable. These, most notably, include his directives to a Christian Nation, guidance to spirituality without religion, repudiation of free will, and promotion of atheism.… Read the full article

My Amazon Reviews of Ken Wilber’s Books

August 1, 2015

[I have reviewed three of Ken Wilber’s books at Amazon.com – “The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism,” “Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy,” and “Up from Eden.” These reviews, which follow, make clear my thinking on Wilber.]

The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism

[My two-star Amazon review of this book is entitled “Two Stars with a Caveat.”]

The second I was notified this ebook was available, I immediately downloaded it and read it. This book is right up my alley, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ken Wilber got the idea for this book from my writings, wherein I talk about the need for another Turning of the Wheel--but more on that a little later in my review. I'm going to divide my review into three parts, which will mirror the book's three-part format (Past, Present, and Future).… Read the full article

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