This is the Theosophist concept of hell, which is derived from the Sanskrit for "isolation." Although a place of torment it greatly differs from the ordinary conception of hell, chiefly because those who reside there have no physical bodies with which to satisfy the fleshy desires that they are plagued with.
The Theosophical teaching on which Avichi is based is the conception that people remain the same entity after death as they were before dying. That is, if in life a person was possessed by strong passions and desires then he will retain them in the astral world. The desires then become unsatisfying with a physic body and turn into anguished torments.
The manner of torments seems to be infinite varying from the confirmed sensualist struggling with his desire of the flesh to the ordinary person, while not burden be fleshy desires, who is troubled by the thought that he gave too much attention in his earthly life to worldly affairs rather than focusing on higher goals. This latter person is thus doomed to regret his lack of attention toward higher objectives.
Avich is a place of regrets for things done and left undone in the physical life. Its torments, however, are not eternal, but will gradually subside after timeless durations of anguished torment.
A.G.H.
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/avichi.html
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Livin' La Vida Loka
Kama-loka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Kama-loka
Kama-loka (Sanskrit) (from kama desire + loka world, sphere)
Desire world; a semi-material plane, subjective and invisible to us, the astral region penetrating and surrounding the earth. It is the original of the Christian purgatory, where the soul undergoes purification from its evil deeds and the material side of its nature. It is equivalent to the Hades of the Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows.
Kama-loka is the abode of the disimbodied astral forms called kama-rupas and of the still highly vitalized astral entities who quit physical existence as suicides and executed criminals who, thus violently hurled out of their bodies before the term of natural death, are as fully alive as ever they were on earth, lacking only the physical body and its linga-sarira. In addition the kama-loka contains elementaries and lost souls tending to avichi. All these entities remain in kama-loka until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental and emotional impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires. The second death takes place in kama-loka, after the upper duad frees itself of the lower, material human elements before entering devachan.
"If, contrariwise, the entity in the kama-loka is so heavy with evil and is so strongly attracted to earth-spheres that the influence of the monad cannot withdraw the Reincarnating Ego from the Kama-rupa, then the latter with its befouled 'soul' sinks lower and lower and may ever enter the Avichi. If the influence of the monad succeeds, as it usually does, in bringing about the 'second death,' then the kama-rupa becomes a mere phantom or kama-rupic spook, and begins instantly to decay and finally vanishes away, its component life-atoms pursuing each one the road whither its attractions draw it" (OG 76). The highest regions of kama-loka blend into the lowest regions of devachan, while the grossest and lowest regions of kama-loka bend into the highest regions of avichi.
(See also: Kama-loka, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)
http://www.experiencefestival.com/kama-loka
Kama-loka (Sanskrit) (from kama desire + loka world, sphere)
Desire world; a semi-material plane, subjective and invisible to us, the astral region penetrating and surrounding the earth. It is the original of the Christian purgatory, where the soul undergoes purification from its evil deeds and the material side of its nature. It is equivalent to the Hades of the Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows.
Kama-loka is the abode of the disimbodied astral forms called kama-rupas and of the still highly vitalized astral entities who quit physical existence as suicides and executed criminals who, thus violently hurled out of their bodies before the term of natural death, are as fully alive as ever they were on earth, lacking only the physical body and its linga-sarira. In addition the kama-loka contains elementaries and lost souls tending to avichi. All these entities remain in kama-loka until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental and emotional impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires. The second death takes place in kama-loka, after the upper duad frees itself of the lower, material human elements before entering devachan.
"If, contrariwise, the entity in the kama-loka is so heavy with evil and is so strongly attracted to earth-spheres that the influence of the monad cannot withdraw the Reincarnating Ego from the Kama-rupa, then the latter with its befouled 'soul' sinks lower and lower and may ever enter the Avichi. If the influence of the monad succeeds, as it usually does, in bringing about the 'second death,' then the kama-rupa becomes a mere phantom or kama-rupic spook, and begins instantly to decay and finally vanishes away, its component life-atoms pursuing each one the road whither its attractions draw it" (OG 76). The highest regions of kama-loka blend into the lowest regions of devachan, while the grossest and lowest regions of kama-loka bend into the highest regions of avichi.
(See also: Kama-loka, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)
http://www.experiencefestival.com/kama-loka
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Jordan Rubin
This naturopath/singer taught me, with his "Maker's Diet" much of what I have come to know about diet and human health. In his books he never speaks of the bodies higher than the physical and, perhaps like most Christians, he does not know the difference between soul and spirit. I strongly doubt, Christian as he is, that he believes in the fact of reincarnation, therefore he probably believes that his body has a soul rather than the other way around (which is the reality) -- but in spite of his rather materialist bent, he is still an inspiration to me, and I learned much about health from him.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (Introduction)
Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit ? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera ? Quid agunt ? quae loca habitant ? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari : ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. - T. Burnet, Archaeol. Phil., p. 68 (slightly edited by Coleridge).
I can easily believe, that there are more invisible than visible
Beings in the universe. But who shall describe for us their
families? and their ranks and relationships and distinguishing
features and functions? What they do? where they live? The human
mind has always circled around a knowledge of these things, never
attaining it. I do not doubt, however, that it is sometimes
beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a Picture, the image
of a greater and better world; lest the intellect, habituated to
the trivia of daily life, may contract itself too much, and wholly
sink into trifles. But at the same time we must be vigilant for
truth, and maintain proportion, that we may distinguish certain
from uncertain, day from night.
I can easily believe, that there are more invisible than visible
Beings in the universe. But who shall describe for us their
families? and their ranks and relationships and distinguishing
features and functions? What they do? where they live? The human
mind has always circled around a knowledge of these things, never
attaining it. I do not doubt, however, that it is sometimes
beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a Picture, the image
of a greater and better world; lest the intellect, habituated to
the trivia of daily life, may contract itself too much, and wholly
sink into trifles. But at the same time we must be vigilant for
truth, and maintain proportion, that we may distinguish certain
from uncertain, day from night.
The Impossible Dream
| To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To right the unrightable wrong This is my quest To fight for the right And I know if I'll only be true And the world will be better for this | |
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
What is Energy?
Does anybody really know what energy is? The famous American Physicist Richard Feynman talked about it in his famous 1960s Lectures on physics “ …In Physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy really IS!”
We know energy through its manifestations in different forms: heat, magnetism, electricity… etc. We know how to use certain formulas to quantify and use the different forms of energy, that ultimately gave us modern technology, but we still do not know the essence of the energy that can take one form or another.
The general scientific definition from the Encyclopedia Britannica: “ENERGY IS THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE ACTION OR EFFECT” defines energy not in what it really is but through one of its attributes. Besides the traditional types of manifestation of Energy in form of heat, motion…etc, many other ‘effects’ can actually be defined as manifestations of energy. We must include vitality, emotions, and thoughts, into the energy repertoire. A whole new picture arises which would need a whole new Physics to grasp it.
From Biogeometry.com
We know energy through its manifestations in different forms: heat, magnetism, electricity… etc. We know how to use certain formulas to quantify and use the different forms of energy, that ultimately gave us modern technology, but we still do not know the essence of the energy that can take one form or another.
The general scientific definition from the Encyclopedia Britannica: “ENERGY IS THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE ACTION OR EFFECT” defines energy not in what it really is but through one of its attributes. Besides the traditional types of manifestation of Energy in form of heat, motion…etc, many other ‘effects’ can actually be defined as manifestations of energy. We must include vitality, emotions, and thoughts, into the energy repertoire. A whole new picture arises which would need a whole new Physics to grasp it.
From Biogeometry.com
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