"Become more mystical and then perhaps you can simply and instantly 'Undifferentiate' your more annoying detractors back into the One instead of needing to argue with them."—General Theosophy

"As one gets older, life should primarily become an ever-more interesting psychological adventure . . . rather than merely a series of masochistically self-enrolled crash-courses about age-related physical problems."—General Theosophy

"Masters, teach your disciples how to be Masters, not merely forever more perfect disciples."—General Theosophy

"Do not use the fictional words is, are, will, or must when you are still at the factual level of might, may, perhaps, or possibly."—General Theosophy

"A lazy cat may teach you to pity yourself and all the other poor creatures who must keep busy in order to keep happy."—General Theosophy

"The Hermetic 'As Above, so below' is an 'inverse-seeming' analogy which can remind you when you wake up each morning, hopefully at least a little improved and corrected by the lessons you learned yesterday, that you have also just experienced a type of 'rebirth' (the'below')—and one which is far easier to have a direct impact upon than the gloomy-doomy, countless past-lifetimes-clogged-up metaphysical Doctrine of…

"Prize especially the reliable friend who does not need a friend."—General Theosophy

"Those who reside in the Land of Basic Kindness and Unkindness are not really 'Beyond Good and Evil'; they generally just do not need any debatable abstract concepts to complicate their behavioral decisions."—General Theosophy

"If a person wishes to receive any insights and blessings from either 'natural' or 'Preternatural' Intuition . . . he or she will almost certainly need to get rid of some abstruses and curses from his or her always-ONLY-thinkings. . . ."—General Theosophy

"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