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The Metaphysics of Paganism: A Traditional Defense of Polytheistic Philosophy

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Understanding the Metaphysics of Paganism: Beyond Monotheistic Reduction The metaphysics of paganism has been consistently misrepresented by monotheistic traditions as primitive or philosophically inferior. This claim rests on a fundamental confusion between the Absolute Principle (Brahman, the Tao, Guénon’s “Supreme Principle”) and a personal creator God. What monotheism presents as theological advancement represents, from the …

Occult Literacy: Reading Esoteric Texts Without Getting Lost

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Traditional spiritual texts—scripture, sacred poetry, metaphysical treatises—were written in a language modern readers no longer speak. Not Sanskrit, Arabic, or Greek, though learning these helps immensely, but the language of symbol, correspondence, and multiple simultaneous meanings. The contemporary mind, trained by literalist fundamentalism on one side and materialist skepticism on the other, approaches these texts …

Higher Centers Explained: Gurdjieff’s Path to Awakening

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Gurdjieff’s higher centers—the dormant emotional and intellectual capacities beyond ordinary consciousness. Learn why they don’t function and how to activate them through Fourth Way practices.

Underground Study Groups, and What Traditional Texts Assume You Already Have

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When modern seekers encounter traditional spiritual texts—the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras, Plotinus’ Enneads, the Tao Te Ching, Sufi poetry—they often experience one of two responses: either the texts seem impenetrably obscure, or they seem deceptively simple. Both responses signal the same problem: the reader lacks qualifications the text assumes are already present. Traditional teachings were …

Against Academic Consciousness Studies: The Epistemological Fraud of Profane Inquiry

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The field of consciousness studies presents itself as the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry—neuroscience meeting philosophy, psychology engaging contemplative traditions, the bridging of Eastern wisdom and Western science. Its practitioners speak of “neurophenomenology,” “contemplative science,” and the “hard problem of consciousness” with an air of profound discovery, as if generations of materialist reduction have finally matured into …

Polypsychicism: The Doctrine of Many Selves

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The Polypsychic Being Part I — Origins of the Idea of Many Selves In the early twentieth century, Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky and his teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff introduced a psychology that still feels ahead of its time. They began from a simple observation: a human being does not think, feel, or act as …

Transformation of Time

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Everydayness and Polypsychism everydayness, the dull hypnosis of everyday life polypsychism, the condition of multiple competing selves or egoes within the mind We find ourselves entranced by mechanical loops of living. Our sense of time is a major accomplice. The days of the week, the hours of the day, even the months of the year …