by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Wisdom Teachings |
“What if attention is the new form of time in the fourth dimension? That time gets converted into attention, which yields Jean Gebser’s intensification of consciousness.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Intensification “One of the things that Gebser insists...
by William Britten | Third Force, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll |
To be present in third force is to unite the opposites. “The primary opposites were called by an ancient Mediterranean school love and hate—or attraction and repulsion. What was meant was that there is a force that unites and an opposite force that separates and...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Imaginal Realm, Meditations on the Tarot |
Time and consciousness, time and attention. “I’m more and more persuaded that attention is the new time in Gebser’s Integral [structure of consciousness].” Cynthia Bourgeault Traditional Views of Time “Time creates nothing; it only combines and recombines that...
by William Britten | Kingdom of Heaven, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Parables |
“We are coming into a new aeon, a new age. Aeons lasts about two thousand years and then its truth wears out. Then it is necessary to find new truth whereby to live, with new meaning, because the old meanings no longer conduct any force.” Maurice Nicoll...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot, Non-Identifying, Wisdom Teachings |
He who aspires to authentic spiritual experience never confounds the intensity of the experience with the truth that is revealed. The Nature of True Spiritual Experience “An important rule of ‘spiritual hygiene,’ namely, that he who aspires to...
