The Game of Kings, Kipling, and Ritual: Strange Bedfellows
What struck Charlie as he dug deeper into the extensive philosophical and metaphysical systems that were created by Plato and even more so by Aristotle was an abandonment of the faith based mythological traditions of their predecessors in lieu…
The Seeker: Chasing Ghosts is published
The book entitled The Seeker: Chasing Ghosts has been published and is available on my publisher's web site here, as well as all major online retail outlooks such as Amazon.
Beginner’s Mind
The odd thing
Is that every Westerner
Approaches the practice of meditation
With a goal in mind
Without exception
The even odder thing
Is that from an Eastern point of view
[Particularly Daoist/Zen Buddhist
Which are very related and symbiotic…
The Royal Yoga: Patanjali’s Eight Limbs
Charlie was young and naïve enough to believe in his younger days that he could create a new paradigm of reality that assimilated the scientific empiricism of the West with the mystic, meditation of the East. This is what he and Jenry had…
Knowledge and the Intellect: Extracting Truth from Scripture
Outside of his thesis coming together, with some clear indicators of cultural borrowing among Ancient Western civilizations with respect to the development of theology and philosophy, Charlie now had a much better context within which to view…
Meditation and the Mind: The Sharpest Tool in the Shed
This review of the Cosmology of the ancients, their similarities and differences, their relationship to power and authority, were all intellectually interesting and of course relevant for that thesis that Charlie had to produce, but not so…