The Swan's Nest

Elias and Schopenauer on the Will.

2008-11-29T06:57:00Z

I've been noting the similarities between the Elias material and German Romanticism, in particular, Arthur Schopenhauer. Like Schopenhauer, Elias asserts the primacy of the Will. According to Elias (and in contradiction to various other New Age and New Thought writers), thought alone does not create reality. The primal source of all phenomenal manifestation Elias ascribes io the faculty of "attention", "doing" and "choosing" -- in other words, Will. As in Schopenhauer's schema, the Will manifests...(read more)

Active Use of Inner Senses: Intuition

2008-08-26T02:09:00Z

Each of the inner senses can be used actively as well as passively. The active mode of Intuition is probability-shifting, or coincidental magick -- changing, adjusting and shaping the workings of chance and coincidence. The Law of Attraction and the Power of Intent are two popular ways of describing projective intuition. In this mode, you actively select future probabilities rather than merely sensing them. The synthesis of active and passive intuition, or the midpoint between them, is what Mihalyi...(read more)

Notes on Schopenhauer 1.

2008-03-31T05:25:00Z

Notes on The World as Will and Idea (WWI), Book 1. Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea was first published in 1819, and its second edition in 1844. In 1963, three months before she began channeling Seth, Jane Roberts composed a piece of automatic writing with a similar title, "The Physical Universe As Idea Construction". This was to be the nucleus of the complete body of work later elaborated in her channeled and unchanneled writings. There are some interesting parallels between Schopenhauer's...(read more)

Preference, Evolution and the Law of Attraction.

2008-02-01T10:12:00Z

The Abraham-Hicks book Ask and It Is Given contains some striking passages about the role that individual preferences play in evolution: Do not underestimate the value of your preferences, for the evolution of your planet depends upon those of you on the Leading Edge of thought continuing to fine-tune your desires. And the contrast, or variety, in which you are standing provides the perfect environment for the formation of your personal preferences. (p. 17) Your current time-space-reality, your current...(read more)

The Selfish Gene and the Nondual Self.

2008-01-07T07:19:00Z

I finished Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene a while back. It confirmed many of my previous insights, and provoked new ones. One interesting thing about selfish gene theory is that it calls into question the nature of the self. Indeed, "the" self may itself be a misnomer. The standard usage in the West is to define self as single, discrete and unified: You either are or are not something. Yet, biology calls this into question, not only for other living creatures but for our own selves as well. Biologically,...(read more)

Meet Etheleona, Part 2.

2008-01-04T08:29:00Z

My New Year's resolution was going to be a one-month "typing fast" -- "fast" as in "abstinence". That is, to refrain from typing for at least one full month, the amount of time that I estimated it would take to get my fingers back in shape. But, here I am with a fairly long post. Have I already lost my resolve? Not exactly. A synchronistic event has fortuitously intervened. Recently, my computer developed a "glitch" in which windows began popping up on the screen. One of these unexpected windows...(read more)

Poem: "Flight of the Swan".

2008-01-02T04:45:00Z

Due to slow typing capacity, I'm still working on my next prose post. In the meantime, and in accord with the Swan theme, here's a little poem. "Flight of the Swan" This time, I know I am going to fly, Sailing on impeccable white swan-wings. My freedom, bubbles rising through water, Is a beautiful and fearful thing. Why is it that I have no sense of ruin? When I see a red sky, I think only of morning. My feet leave the ground, Aerodynamic feathers stretch for breeze. How do I know I am meant for...(read more)

Meet Etheleona, Part 1.

2007-12-09T00:18:00Z

Greetings to the Greater Blogosphere, from an LJ expatriate. I'm new here. In fact, I recently migrated here from Livejournal due to the censorship, invasion of privacy and political persecution of Russian users which are being perpetrated by LJ's new owners, SUP. My friend heiko@insanejournal.com has made a series of informative posts on the situation: http://heiko.insanejournal.com/715.html http://heiko.insanejournal.com/786.html http://heiko.insanejournal.com/1064.html http://heiko.insanejournal.com/1317.html...(read more)