by Gregor Maehle | Oct 2, 2021 | Psychology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
We have a tendency of going through life entertaining righteous anger (sometimes called holy anger), and holding grudges against people who have slighted us or outsmarted us is a big part of that. And we believe that we are entitled to hold those grudges and that,...
by Gregor Maehle | Sep 4, 2021 | Ecology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
Everybody would like to be guided by a higher intelligence, even if that is not the exact wording they would give to this process. And why wouldn’t we? The amount of certainty and inner peace that we could derive from such an apprenticeship is comparable to nothing...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 24, 2021 | Meditation and Samadhi, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
This is the complete Chapter 8 from my recent book Chakras, Drugs and Evolution. This chapter is my reckoning with Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy, in which he suggests that all mystics were essentially experiencing the same even if they clothed it in...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 13, 2021 | Audio/Video, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
This would have to be my favourite podcast. I am interviewed by Miriam and Adam from We Are Open Circle about laughing at your own authority, listening to the mystery, spirituality as a community practice, and more. For podcast please click...
by Gregor Maehle | Jun 12, 2021 | Psychology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
Freedom is attained by living your divine purpose, by expressing its will and embodying its nature. I often get asked whether I thought there was free will, and then, often, facts from neurology are quoted to claim that we don’t. To begin with, I think the question is...
by Gregor Maehle | May 28, 2021 | Ecology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
We now have two closely interlinked divine aspects; firstly, the infinite consciousness (the God transcendent) and secondly, the entire material cosmos (the God immanent), a crystallization of divine intelligence, reflecting itself in infinite consciousness. But these...
