“Old age can only exist if you blame it for something.”—General Theosophy

“If you have detailed beliefs rather than just intuitive inklings about transcendental subjects like karma and reincarnation, you may have traded religion for philosophy.”—General Theosophy

"Not much of a trick is needed to keep busy with petty things; much more of a trick is required to keep un-busy with Undifferentiated Everything."—General Theosophy

“A Theosopher is a philosopher who has lost interest in other philosophers.”—General Theosophy

“An Adept does not need anything from the world in order to produce the same consciousness as having it.”—General Theosophy

“Adolescence in Psycho-Spiritual life may be the middle developmental period between rejoicing about the possibility of reincarnation and worrying about the actual possibility of it.”—General Theosophy

“Doing Absolutely Nothing is the only way to do Absolutely Everything.”—General Theosophy

“Old age for some is finally being able to buy almost everything they can no longer use or enjoy.”—General Theosophy

“Work without supervision is almost play.”—General Theosophy

“Some religions teach how to avoid or extract poison arrows; others, how and where to shoot them.”—General Theosophy

I have considered consciousness from many different perspectives. The perspective I am currently exploring is that there is only one consciousness.

For the sake of this description lets call it universal consciousness, and lets call the consciousness that could be seen as my consciousness, individual consciousness. They are both the same consciousness, but individual consciousness is only part (or a subset) of universal consciousness.

Now so far there is nothing physical in…

Hello ALL,

From my Rudimentary understanding of Theosophy we are encouraged to attain perfection through learning and service to others. The Kabbalah relates to a dynamic activation of powers which connect us with a communion to the Brotherhood of Angels. Ancient Egyptian Language reflects an occult knowledge of the soul (the micro-cosm) and the macro-cosm (the Cosmos).. Queen Hatshepsut is referred to as a disciple of the Great White Brotherhood of Luxor.... her reign of Peace for…

Here is a good one for you. Our adventures into space should be viewed as validation for what we have already have within.

When we are introduced into this world, our "consciousness" isn't large enough to understand our own hands and feet. Through an expansion of consciousness (and very rapidly at first) our awareness grows (we gather information), We define the world around us by what we discover within ourselves. We have no preconceptions, we have not yet been exposed to the limits…

David's comment "as above, so below" made me think of above as Monad and below as monad, and so I think of "m/Monad" as a representation of  a reality that incorporates all possible variables in terms of interpretations, dimensions, karma, kama, maya, manvataras, etc.

“Don’t worry about making mistakes; just worry about not Mindfully watching yourself as you make them.”—General Theosophy

“Theosophy is your religion minus the words.”—General Theosophy

Our science recognizes that a single neuron in our brain is incapable of thought, feeling, sight, or any of the things we use to gather information, make connections to that information to give it meaning so that we can understand anything.

Now consider that our society is our social mind. Each of us merely a neuron in it. If we apply "as above, so below", what does that say about anything, any of us might say or do?

“Good health is normally much less educational than poor.”—General Theosophy

I found this today, I find it interesting.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/05/neuroscientist-describes-documented-cases-of-humans-flying-outside-of-their-body/