"Adeptship is exactly like dancing one's way through life . . . provided that one has also learned how to Absolutely pause, if needed, even when the music keeps going. . . ."—General Theosophy

"In daily life, doing something is generally far less important than not-doing something."—General Theosophy

"It is probably best not to bother discussing death with anyone too scientific to even entertain a doubt about its finality."—General Theosophy

Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius) by Richard Ihle

"There's a man in the funny papers we all know. . . ."

Some people started to call me "Captain Theosophy.". . .

Initially, this was almost certainly because it was the title of an article I had written for the old THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST magazine. In those days I guess I did sometimes seem sort of like a cartoonish superhero—not only because of my…

"Avoid becoming a missionary before becoming your own mission field."—General Theosophy

"A ready willingness to overcome one thing after another in life is a primary human virtue; a listless unwillingness to consider even one thing in life which might need overcoming is a primary vice."—General Theosophy

"The most sincere believers in reincarnation are probably those who actually begin to worry about the possibility."—General Theosophy

"Wait until you are completely unable to stumble forward even one more step before you waste any time composing a private tragicomedy about your previous steps. . . ."—General Theosophy

[10-20-18 Just an informal email exchanged with an old friend who had encountered some negative personal information about the Eastern teacher Swami Rama.]

Hi, Jeff—Windstorm day in my locale today.

Thus, I probably should add to the gale:

Thank you for your thoughts on Swami Rama. Good and maybe not-so-good in everyone as usual, I suppose. Perhaps there is even the chance that, despite considerable devotee-testimony to the contrary, Swami might have…

"Sometimes it is best to simply watch what most people do, then do what they do least."—General Theosophy

"'Enlightenment' is not the partial cure for anything, but it is the Absolute cure for anything partial; it cannot 'create' any new Light, but it can remove many layers of old sunglasses."—General Theosophy

"Meditation may not to help anyone articulate story-level religious beliefs and teachings more precisely; rather, it is more likely to start transforming any theological words into aerosols, thus giving them less precision and therefore more validity."—General Theosophy

"A 'Guardian Angel' probably only guards your potential future moments; thus  when it comes to rescuing you from the natural consequences of your past mistakes, it is quite likely that you are completely on your own. "—General Theosophy

". . . At least following my Theosophical Society in America presentation that summer I had the opportunity to attend another participant's early-morning group activity. It was called 'Music Meditation.'. . ."

The above is a continuation of my theosophy.net blog contribution called “One Reason I Now Limit My Theosophical Audiences” which, incidentally, resulted in a very good question being asked of me:

“Is there any reason one should turn to you as a guide?"

"No. That…

Several decades ago I was asked to speak at a Theosophical summer convention held in Wheaton, Illinois. My message then (as it continues to be now) was that at least some of H.P. Blavatsky's [1831-1891] "esoteric" teachings (e.g., "Rounds," "Root-Races," "Sub-Races," etc.) could have been speculatively produced by making as-below-so-Above ANALOGIES out of the six varieties…

"A 'Ghost IN the machine' is just a lofty Psycho-Spiritual metaphor and certainly nothing to fear; a routinely indulged 'goat AS the machine,' on the other hand, . . ."—General Theosophy

“Your particular 'life-journey' is just as good as anyone else's—as long as you both are ultimately led to the Realization of where you always Are already.”—General Theosophy

"Do not just go to church; be One also."—General Theosophy

"There are very few things in life more important than these two: 1) finding exactly the right chair, and 2) finding exactly the right reason to get up from it."—General Theosophy

"Religions can be ranked by the unbroken quality of their silences."—General Theosophy