Evolution and Creation: does quantum mechanics solve all that?

I’ve been trying to get evolution recently. That is: I’ve been trying to see whether I feel that Amit Goswami, in his book Creative Evolution, solves things for me. I’ve studied a bit of quantum mechanics as a chemistry teacher, and am perhaps a bit more equipped than most to see whether Goswami stays true [...]

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Bibracte: Last Center of Celtic Occultism

The other day I visited David Reigle’s excellent web site of the Eastern Tradition Research Institute and found again his paper on “The Centennial Cycle.” In this paper he discusses the origin of the policy by the Brotherhood of Mahatmas of enlightening the “western barbarians” on a centennial basis. Here I read that the very [...]

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Blavatsky C.W. online (again)

The policy of this blog is to not have too many posts that consist of merely dropping a link. I’m going to break that policy today because I’ve picked up where the deceased Ton den Hartog left off: put the Blavatsky Collected Writings on my website, with the permission of the Wheaton Headquarters obviously.
So without [...]

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What is and isn’t t(T)heosophy?

I’m curious what others think does and does not constitute theosophy.

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The Seven Theosophical Principles: An Initial Experiential Grounding in Reflective Experience

This small essay is an initial attempt to bring to language the “lived, first-personal, experiential characteristics” of the 7 Theosophical principles of our being based on the idea that these are “subjective, introspectivley available features.” (1)

One prerequisite for doing so is to resist the use of any metaphorical or explanatory concepts, which is the [...]

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The division between a Higher and a lower Self, an idea.

In a previous comment Chris asked about the theosophical model of the human constitution, which proposes the existence of a Higher and a lower self, and the statement by Krishnamurti that such a separation is “an idea, not a fact”.
In this kind of subjects, the focus of Krishnamurti and Theosophy differs—but only the focus, not [...]

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Expanding Our Centre of Consciousness

In the last issue of The Theosophist ( May 2008 ) there is an article of mine. In it I examine this topic from a psychological point of view, as presented by J. Krishnamurti, and an Occultist approach according to the writings of some theosophical leaders.
You can find the article on my website, or click [...]

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“Truth is a Pathless Land”

This is one of Krishnamurti’s statements purported to be against Theosophy, because the Theosophical literature frequently speaks about “the Path”. But the seemingly clash between concepts, I believe, is due to an imperfect understanding of both Krishnamurti’s and Theosophical teachings.

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Theosophy & Krishnamurti

An important and unsettled question in modern Theosophy is its relationship to the teachings of Krishnamurti, a topic that several contributors here have already written extensively about.

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The Experiential Grounding of Theosophy

This post is intended to be an extended philosophical meditation/discussion on the possibility of grounding Theosophy in non-theoretical, non-metaphysical experiential terms.
The question started as comment no. 8 in the post “sort of perplexing” by Latebrake. I invite my first and only discussion partner Pablo to re-submit his comment, then I’ll do mine, etc. till we [...]

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Essentials of Theosophy – Vol. I – The Sevenfold Constitution – Part 1 – An Overview

Welcome to the first part of a series of courses that will be hosted here. This is Part I of Essentials of Theosophy – Vol. I – The Sevenfold Constitution. Part 1 is an overview of all seven principles by Pablo Sender.
Note that this is an enhanced podcast with links embedded into the [...]

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Do You Exist?

Here is our first video! It is rough, but it is a start.

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Practical versus Theoretical spirituality (or theosophy if you will)

The spiritual path: only practice or only reading?

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