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Vernon Louis Parrington
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice of Logic
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New Testament Study
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From By to the Moon
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The Stone of Heraclea and the Rings of Inspiration
The Stone of Heraclea and the Rings of Inspiration The Stone of Heraclea and the Rings of Inspiration Plato’s short dialogue Ion is often read
The One Beyond the He/She
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The Harvard Psilocybin Project 1960-1963 – Publication
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Aesthetic Ecstasy
This “modern” time is not, in any absolute sense, different from previous times. It is simply that people in this time are tending not to
American Association of University Professors – 1918
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The True Teaching Is a Renewal of Culture
In the following article from: VISION MOUND Volume 1, Number 3 SEPTEMBER 1977 The True Teaching Is a Renewal of Culture Bubba Free John
The Necessity Not to Be Children
“Parents make children, children make parents’ The Necessity for Samrajya to be Independent and the Gathering Not to Be Children Control: The Present Paradox
What is Prana?
Prana (Beezone Reference Entry) DefinitionPrana is the vital force, distinct from both the soul (ātman) and inert matter, that sustains, animates, and organizes living beings.
Science of Soul – Introduction
Science of Soul A practical exposition of ancient method of visualisaion of Soul (Atma-Vijnana) 1964 INTRODUCTION In ancient times householders, who had completed their family
A Cautionary Essay on the Spiritual Path Beyond Psychology
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Hume, the Bhāgavatam, and the Pandits of Today
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The Omission of Eleusis
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Antiquity of Writing – Frederic George Kenyon
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Meaning of Is Is
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The Origin of Scientific Thought – Bruno Snell
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Jeffrey Kripal – Human and Superhuman
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Swami Vivekananda – At the Parliment of Religions – 1894 Phamplet
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The Hermit – Thomas Parnell
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Beyond the Hat Trick
What’s the difference between a “cult” and a “new religious movement?” by Don Lattin Why do devotees follow people like Da Free John, a.k.a Adi
The Rock and the Claws: William Golding’s Pincher Martin, Adi Da, and Jung
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Aldous Huxley – MIT 1960 – The Self
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Harvard, Psychedelics – From Beecher to Leary (1954–1960)
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Fools Gold
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The Limits of Psychology in the Study of Religious Experience
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Smarty Pants
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Lost in Translation
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Workshop on Psychotherapy – Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche – 1975
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Tom Riley – Garbage and the Goddess
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Beyond Good and Evil, and The Übermensch
By Ed Reither, Beezone Preface I had never been a serious student of Fredrick Nietzsche (1844 -1900 – German philosopher). I knew his name, his
Reading Calderwood in the Age of the Soundbite
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Personal Knowledge to Universal Knowledge
From the Scholar’s Desk to the AI Cloud: A Case Study in the Shift from Personal Knowledge to Universal Knowledge by Beezone “For us to
The Politics of Mysticism: Isaac Breuer’s New Kumari
Paradox is a characteristic of truth. What ‘communis opinio’ has of truth is surely no more than an elementary deposit of generalizing partial understanding, related
The Case of the Hidden Fungi – Saving the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Sabathian Movement – Gershom Scholem
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What the Ancients Knew
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The “Soul” of the Primitive (and Modern)
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From Tantalus to Technopoly
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The Voice of Realization
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The Painter of Eternal Truths – George Frederick Watts
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The Eucharist and Spiritual Transmission
The Eucharist and Spiritual Transmission From Thorburn to Esoteric Realism Ed Reither, Beezone Introduction In every age, the Eucharist has drawn interpretation: as mystery,
Why Mono Divine Incarnation?
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The Generation of Collapse A Study of Mishnah Sotah 9:15 and the Emergence of Christianity
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The Broken Inheritance
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Arnold Toynbee and the Spiritual Challenge of History
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The Light of the Heart: A Contemplative Essay
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Aristotle and Adi Da on the Crisis and Purpose of Politics
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Fiction as History
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The Light Blazing King
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I’m Sorry
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Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance – Edgar Wind
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A Message from AI
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From Delphi to the Gospel
From Delphi to the Gospel: Plutarch and the Spiritual Transformation of the Ancient World Why did Plutarch—so central to the religious and philosophical world
The Controversy of Plato’s Seventh Letter
Plato’s Seventh Letter The Controversy “I can say about all writers, past or future, who say they know the things to which I devote myself,
Psychological Integration, and Spiritual Liberation in Jung and Trungpa
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Non-Dualism, Psychedelics, and the Lost Meaning of the Vedas
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The Paradigm of Soul and Awareness
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The Nasadiya Sukta, or Hymn of Creation, from the Rigveda
Note to the ReaderWhat follows is not a doctrine or a literal account, but a poetic and paradoxical meditation on the mystery of existence itself.
The History of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784-1883)
Centenary Review of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784–1883)Part I – History of the Society Introduction A HUNDRED years have elapsed—a century of arduous and
Origin and Decline of Christian Religion in India
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The Modernization of Sanskrit Education
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The Thunder and the Three Da’s
The Thunder and the Three Da’s “Thunder is vigor or strength, which kills others; that is Indra, for it is his function.” This cryptic
Without the Muses
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Beezone’s Series: Origins of Western Civilization
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Benares – Origins of Western Civilization
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ON CONTEMPORARY EVENTS
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A Morning Coffee Chat at Starbucks
A Morning Coffee Chat at Starbucks Ray: A long-time reader of Adi Da, fluent in paradox, mysticism, and esoteric non-dual teachings. Aware of psychology, but
I Surrender
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Quest for the Historical Self
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On Sacred Narrative, Historical Inquiry, and the Search for Meaning – Index
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Slavery in Ancient Egypt
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Tracing the Origins of Writing and Civilization
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Preface Note to the Reader:This essay is an interpretive and educational reflection on a dialogue between Adi Da Samraj and a devotee, Jonathan, that took
“Be Healed” – A Dialogue with Adi Da
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From Myth to Mandate: Abraham and the Transformation of Sacred History
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Inheritance and Erasure: Rethinking Divine Right, Ancient Identity, and the Question of Land
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Egypt as the Cradle
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Nigrinus – Lucian
Nigrinus | Nigrinus SOURCE:The Works of Lucian of Samosata Translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905. Summary by Beezone
The method of the philosophers resembles the prophetic art which is controlled by man and was organized by the Egyptians and Chaldeans and, before them, by the Indians.
Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, § 1.praef BOOK I