Neil Postman offers a critique of our modern philosophical condition by challenging our widely held assumptions concerning education, technology and media. His new book is called “Building a Bridge to the Nineteenth Century”.

…the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society – and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

~ Erich Fromm (Anatomy of Human Destructiveness)

Quotations from Greek and Roman philosophers that illustrate the origins and practice of Stoicism and the pursuit of the Good Life. A complete course in Stoicism including cultural background, chronology, examples, and Arrian’s notes. Largest source for classical quotations. Aide memoire to locate a given text or idea.

The following passages is an excerpt from The Stoic’s Bible:

THE SEVEN SAGES
6th c. B.C.

SOURCE: as noted.

On being asked what is difficult: To know oneself. What is easy? To give advice to another. What is pleasant? Success. What is divine? That which has neither beginning nor end. The strangest thing he had ever seen? An aged tyrant. Thales of Miletus. D.L.I. pp.37, 39.

How shall we lead the best and most righteous life? By refraining from doing what we blame in others. Thales. D.L.I. p.39.

To Thales belongs the proverb: KNOW THYSELF. D.L.I. p.41.

One should say what is probable and shroud in silence that which is impossible. Thales. PL. Mor .2, p.429. Read more…

A comparison of ancient and modern models of the structure of the universe reveal unexpected similarities.

As our most recent scientific understanding is bringing the subatomic realms into ever clearer focus, the strange world of quantum mechanics and string theory are finding a remarkably consistent echo in the cosmology, or creation myth, of the ancient Egyptians.

Could there be complex scientific notation hidden in ancient hieroglyphics? Author/researcher Laird Scranton demonstrates an unexplainable accurate description of subatomic structure, quantum physics, cellular biology and even string theory, hidden in ancient accounts of the formation of the universe.

If Scranton’s discovery proves true, it may be the most important breakthrough in Egyptology since the discovery of the Rosetta stone.

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Twice a year, on the anniversary of the Ramses’ birth and coronation day, the rising sun penetrates the temple to illuminate the four gods of creation situated at it’s very core.

As we witness this rare spectacle, we gain an understanding of the ancient temple, not just as a place of worship, but as an essential mechanism of the ancient magical practices.

West is joined by bestselling author/researcher Robert Bauval at the temple of Abu Simbel. We look at the temple, statuary and heiroglyphs as examples of talismanic technology.

Lon Milo Duqette discusses modern applications of talismanic technology.

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The ancient Arabic name for Egypt was “Khemet”, or “The Black Land”. The western continuation of the Egyptian magical arts was called “Al-Khemet”, meaning “from the Black Land”.

The cradle of civilization is also the ancestral home of a high science of magic. We explore the many modern incarnations of the ancient science of perfection and the transformation of the “materia prima” of the Alchemists.

From Alchemy to Tarot, and in the many modern esoteric and mystical societies existing today, we explore the hidden thread that connects modern and ancient magic – The occult idea that consciousness is the materia prima. The coal that turns into a diamond. The lead that becomes gold.

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