2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in exactly the same way an apple grows off an apple tree. So let’s say the tree which grows apples is a tree which apples, using ‘apple’ as a verb. And a world in which human beings...
2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it’s too fundamental to give it a title. I’m going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our perspectives...
2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
Now, you see, this has characteristically—through the ages—been the attitude of priesthoods, of the guardians of law and order—or, as they say in the Episcopal church, everything should be done decently and in order. The guardians of this kind of thing have always...
2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
I’m referring to a kind of experience, a kind of—shall we say—state of consciousness which seems to be as prevalent among human beings as measles. It’s something that simply happens, and we don’t know why it happens. And although there are all sorts of techniques...
2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
Let me see. Ye— Are you God all the time? I mean, are you consciousness all the time? There is no time, my dear. It’s always now. [???] and it’s during every event. [???] In every precise moment in consciousness, are you conscious of it? ...
2019 | June | 20 | Essential Lectures, Philosophy and Society, Searchable, The Works, Transcript
If you believe that God is a monarch, an absolute, omniscient, and omnipotent authority – shall we say a sort of cosmic ego – then to claim to be that, is to introduce democracy into the Kingdom of Heaven. To usurp divine authority and to speak in its...
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