Many of us take our dreams for granted, not realizing that the dream state is actually an expanded state of consciousness. Due to the fact that the ego lets go of a lot of the control it normally exercises during the day, we become more open to healing forces that help us to regain balance mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually as we dream. Read More…
TRUTH AS A VALUE
By ever insisting on the distinction between what is ‘true’ and what is ‘right’, modern thought and language have in effect divorced the two, reducing the idea of truth to a question of fact, thereby eliminating questions of value and goodness from the pursuit of truth. This arbitrary and categorical view of truth easily engenders attitudes of disinterest or supposed ‘ethical neutrality’, which easily degenerates into ethical irresponsibility and the service of destructive masters, both in business and politics. Academic philosophy and science mainly regard truth as a conceptual standard for deciding what is factual. There is a clear distinction between fact and truth. A fact is true, but truth is not just factuality, but a supra-factual standard. A fact can be observed by aid of one or more of the five senses, then described and recorded, while many facts can be summarised in generalisations or in the shorthand form we call scientific theory. However well-founded in observation and reason, no factual or theoretical statements - however accurate, however precise - can capture the essential and final truth of any matter. Read More…
FALSE DOCTRINE, OBJECTIVE UNDERSTANDING AND CONSENSUS
Everyone is subject to some network of thought and emotion, some personal variant of one or more systems of ideas, assumption, beliefs and ideals. These systems have been more or less crystallised into doctrines, operating at various levels of life and for any number of purposes. Where the major questions of life are concerned - the most vital and determining judgements and decisions - the question therefore arises; is it better awarely to study and develop a doctrine to test it through practice than to leave everything more or less to circumstance or chance? Read More…
The multiple problem of what truth is seems so confusingly fathomless that there is quite simply no general consensus about it. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact, as we shall see. Read More…
| There is more and more enthusiasm and interest in Cyprus at the moment over the Crystal Singing bowls. When people first hear the Crystal Singing Bowls at The Soma Centre they are usually taken completely by surprise. The sound is truly is out of this world. The effect is both grounding and uplifting. |
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