“Seize the day! but quickly release it in order to get a better grip on the instant.—General Theosophy

“The best, most restful thing about not having made your mark in the world is that neither you nor anyone else is expecting you to make another.”—General Theosophy

"Being a fast learner is far less important than being a slow juggler who can somehow get more and more little orbs of previously acquired knowledge into the air before forgetting and dropping any."—General Theosophy

Adept Theosophy: “Practical application of intuitive knowledge or wisdom, including those psychological insights and ‘esoteric psycho-operative devices’ which may be analogically associated with (and perhaps the basis for) grand speculative formulations like karma and reincarnation.”—General Theosophy

Theosophy:  “Intuitive knowledge or wisdom resulting from personal experience of one’s Transcendental (‘Divine’) Nature.”—General Theosophy 

“You can almost always solve other people’s problems by using the simple 2+2=4; however, your own difficulties almost always need 2+2= 2+S(1)=S(2+1)=S(2+S(0))=S(S(2+0))=S(S(2))=S(3)=4.”—General Theosophy

“First Preternaturally produce the magician; then naturally produce the magic.”—General Theosophy

“Increase what you do not know; decrease what you think you know.”—General Theosophy

"The real value of your money may only be how much volitional leisure time it is currently able to buy for you."—General Theosophy

"ADJUSTMENT is far more important in life than SUCCESS."—General Theosophy

“Theosophy is a Preternatural Intuition which may not be provable but remains convincing anyway; theology is a natural speculation which also may not be provable but remains convincing when your fingers are crossed.”—General Theosophy

“Religion is the shortcut to belief; Theosophy is the scenic route.”—General Theosophy

“The certainty about a Theosopher is that he or she is speaking from and for himself or herself; the chance about a Theosophist is that he or she might merely be quoting a librarian quoting a librarian quoting a librarian. . . .”—General Theosophy

“If you need to force yourself to meditate every day, perhaps you need to learn how to meditate.”—General Theosophy

“When the omniscient, omnipotent gods really watch over you, they probably do not let you from time to time mistake yourself for one of them.”—General Theosophy

I thought it be cool to ponder on, since we have the 'chicken or the egg' question... well we also have the 'is the mind the brain' question too..

Original title: Neuroscience can reveal mysteries of the mind

A post from Mark Stokes (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity) all I did was correct the typo's…

“One underappreciated advantage for Psycho-Spiritual progress in OLD AGE is probably just the possession of a nearly incontestable excuse for shifting more and more temporal work onto younger people.”—General Theosophy

“One's secular journey begins with the first step taken; one's Psycho-Spiritual Grand Tour, with the first secular step NOT taken.”—General Theosophy

Introduction

General Theosophy will be the last religion left standing on Earth, of course.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote to John Adams [April 11, 1823], "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

Ditto, probably eventually, for all the miraculous…

“In Theosophy, Mystery is almost always a more faithful companion than an explanation.”—General Theosophy