Sublime

Ulysses is for me the prototype of … modern man … (and) the man of the future as well, because he represents the type of the ‘trapped’ voyager. His journey was a voyage toward the centre, toward Ithaca, which is to say, toward himself. He was a fine navigator, but destiny – spoken here in terms of trials of initiation which he had to overcome – for

Taoist stories are filled with accounts of the return of the liberated sage into worldly affairs.

Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces, Zuckerkandl’s Sound and Symbol (on music as a philosophical method), Gombrich’s Art and Illusion, Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching, and D. T. Suzuki’s undoubted masterpiece, Zen and Japanese Culture—to mention but a few of their formidable array

Upanishad shows that the only hell is absence of knowledge. As long as man is overpowered by the darkness of ignorance, he is the slave of Nature and must accept whatever comes as the fruit of his thoughts and deeds. When he strays into the path of unreality, the Sages declare that he destroys himself; because he who clings to the perishable body a

At one point I began to see a counselor who directed me to a series of books by Sanaya Roman.4, 5, 6, 7 These “channeled teachings”—information supposedly transmitted from a spirit-being to a human receiver—were transformational for me.