“We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within.” ~ Jalaludin Rumi There are infinite ways that Life creatively and miraculously guides you, orchestrating your path. And there are infinite reasons it does so. Two general reasons are: One, to confirm and inspire short-term goals your heart is guiding you towards; and two, to confirm and inspire your larger Soul Destiny, perfectly unfolding at this time. Mysterious ways that Life surprises and de-light...| Vince Gowmon
Gregory Anne: Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Rebellious Wellness Over 50. Although I talk about wellness and the mind and the body, I always include spirit, inner wisdom, our other higher order of things, right? | Rebellious Wellness Over 50
Robert Fludd, Jacob’s Ladder AUGUSTINE famously distinguished between two powers or levels of human reason, which he called lower reason (ratio inferior) and higher reason (ratio superior). These refer, respectively, to discursive reasoning (ratiocination) and intellection (immediate grasp), and correspond to what in the Platonic/Neoplatonic tradition are called dianoia and nous. Augustine’s views, of course, […]| Christian Platonism
SENECA the Younger was, in philosophical orientation, a Roman Stoic. But it seems fair to say his was an eclectic Stoicism. (For example, one of the philosophers he quotes most often was Epicurus, the founder of Epicureanism.) This letter to his friend Lucilius discusses a divine spirit within us, functioning as some combination of Higher […]| Christian Platonism
