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Growing Soul
“Today we are seeing a new spirituality coming about. It does not have a name yet; it does not really have a specific form and it does not have any leaders. There is a new perspective emerging which is very much in the tradition of the perennial philosophy that Aldous Huxley charted. Many people are beginning to rediscover the eternal wisdom of human consciousness and put it into practice in their own lives. . . We are in the midst of a new spiritual renaissance but unlike previous revivals this one has no leader; for the first time we are rediscovering it collectively.”
— Peter Russell
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It is those that are overly identified with the good that scare me the most. It is like they haven’t recognized any shadow within themselves. And then thinking they are blameless everything that is bad or dark gets projected out there onto someone else. They can have a really bad vision on you. And always need someone else as a scapegoat for the shadow.
— Jon Wilson
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Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
— Confucius
Questions of how we should live have been debated since the dawn of time. Humanity has tried endless cultural versions, some more successful than others. Some have endured for a very long time. Our version looks to be brief because we have…