Deconstructing Donald Trump

September 3, 2015

Any astrologer worth his salt is intimately familiar with the iconic Grant Lewi’s brilliant 144 Sun-Moon combination descriptions in his book “Heaven Knows What.” With this in mind, I’m going to present Lewi’s description of Donald Trump’s Sun/Moon combination, Gemini/Sagittarius. Then I’ll add a few comments of my own about the Donald.

“You are a romantic: you believe in the far away and long ago. Things at a distance make an appeal to you with the result that you are always on the move. Either you are actually traveling or you are getting the satisfaction of mobility in stories and yarns, real and imagined, of out-of-way places such as you read of in romances. This is O.K. so long as your yarn-spinning stays in the realm of the imagination purely, but when you apply that imagination of yours to your friends and start to tell tales about them – look out! You love to hold the center of the stage and to appear to know the inside dope on any and all subjects -- with the result that what you say is frequently unreliable.… Read the full article

Sam “Hardly a Sage” Harris

August 12, 2015
[This is the Introduction to my forthcoming text (eta 2016) on Sam "Hare-Brained" Harris. "Soapbox" Sam seeks to enlighten us with his Hubris-filled pontifications -- but after people read my book, they will recognize Sam for what he is: Sam "the Sham."]

Many people consider Sam Harris a paragon of rationality and gnosis, an exemplar of enlightened postmodern wisdom who marries science and spirit -- but I don’t. In my "Letter to Sam Harris," I seek to systematically deconstruct Harris’s core philosophical arguments. I seek to “behead him” with my Dharma Sword, exposing him as an overrated thinker and failed mystic.

But I don’t just aim to deconstruct Harris’s principal philosophical arguments, I also provide constructive counter-arguments, in the form of integral solutions, to the “problems” he identifies.

In my Letter, I touch just briefly upon Harris’s anti-Islamic and pro-torture arguments, which I agree with, and instead focus on his arguments that I find most objectionable. These, most notably, include his directives to a Christian Nation, guidance to spirituality without religion, repudiation of free will, and promotion of atheism.… Read the full article

My Amazon Reviews of Ken Wilber’s Books

August 1, 2015

[I have reviewed three of Ken Wilber’s books at Amazon.com – “The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism,” “Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy,” and “Up from Eden.” These reviews, which follow, make clear my thinking on Wilber.]

The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism

[My two-star Amazon review of this book is entitled “Two Stars with a Caveat.”]

The second I was notified this ebook was available, I immediately downloaded it and read it. This book is right up my alley, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ken Wilber got the idea for this book from my writings, wherein I talk about the need for another Turning of the Wheel--but more on that a little later in my review. I'm going to divide my review into three parts, which will mirror the book's three-part format (Past, Present, and Future).… Read the full article

Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 1

July 3, 2015
In this informal series I will consider the all-important subject of “Cracking the Cosmic Code” – meaning demystifying and transcending the cosmic domain (multi-dimensional manifest existence) in the context of realizing (or awakening to and coinciding with) the unmanifest Di-“vine” Domain (Infinite Being, or Consciousness-Spirit), wherein Consciousness (or timeless Awareness) is one “vine” of the Divine Domain, or Infinite Being, and Spirit (or spaceless Clear-Light Energy) is the other.

I will consider this subject through the five essential “portals,” or branches, of classical philosophy – metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and esthetics. In this first Part of the series, my focus will be on metaphysics (including ontical, or radical-spiritual, metaphysics).

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies existence. Mundane metaphysics limits existence to the universe of manifest existents; transcendental metaphysics, on the other hand, rightly understands that all existents are derivatives of a single transcendental and Divine Existent, or Being, which is hyper-cosmic, or infinite (meaning existing outside of, or beyond, creation and space-time).… Read the full article

Psychological Self-Understanding, Astrology, and Holistic Health

June 29, 2015
[Note: This is an excerpt from my book "Electrical Christianity: A Revolutionary Guide to Jesus' Teachings and Spiritual Enlightenment."]

Ken Wilber acknowledges the enneagram (a ninefold typology of personality types), but not astrology, as a means to psychological self-understanding. Unbeknownst to Wilber, the enneagram is derived from astrology, which subsumes and transcends it as a system of human classification and understanding. The nine enneagram types mirror the “qualities,” “traits,” or “energies” of the first nine astrological planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is missing because the enneagram originated prior to the discovery of Pluto in 1930. Consequently, even on a superficial level, the enneagram is an incomplete tool for self- and other-understanding. But because Wilber is partially buried in the very zeitgeist “flatland” he heavily criticizes, he buys into the conventionally acceptable enneagram while rejecting the far more complete occult oversystem of astrology, from which it derives.… Read the full article

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