Abstract: In my explorations of music, I have begun to revise some assumptions about what constitutes greatness. How fine, truly, is the music of the canonical masters—Bach, Mozart, Beethoven whose talent has been enshrined as a truism? This...
Abstract: Magnolias of light from light years out are calling. They are sending harmonics from another quadrant of the universe to the holodeck where every wave-form and the densest object is the minutest emission to be manipulated and entered at...
Abstract: No other musical artist or ensemble do I hold in such esteem as Aphex Twin. The man who responds to the name: Richard D. James. I desist from calling him: the best, because such qualifications are contrary to the spirit of such genii. I...
Abstract: The deepest and broadest application of science is cosmology. By cosmology I mean how we understand the universe that we are part and parcel of. By universe I mean the world of matter, and, the energetic or abstract field, of which the...
Abstract: I will explore the concept of duende in this piece of writing, and imbue it with my own understanding. Aside from meaning elf, goblin or spirit, duende has something of the English terms: verve, panache, flamboyance. The term also has...
Abstract: I regard human consciousness as nothing more or less than matter thinking itself. By extension of this logic, all physical matter might be conscious. Reason cannot pinpoint the direct cause of human consciousness, since we cannot escape...
Abstract: We cannot grasp anything essential about the universe without mentioning sublimity. Words like sublimity and ecstasy are seldom used in everyday speech. People are normally too wrapt up in the quotidian cares of life to get into this mode...
Abstract: The astral planes denote a rarefied sphere of existence which eludes a narrowly material understanding of the cosmos. My subsequent thoughts on the astral are a product of the intuition and logic of my imagination. They are related to...
The Cosmic figureSebastian Lopez Let us return to a contemplation of the Source. I have at least once envisioned inthe freefall of nightly dreams, a slender body of consummate perfection. This bodywould resemble a female figure, did it not have the...
Abstract: Without getting into detailed elaboration, the black hole phenomenon is derived from the end of the life-cycle of a massive star. A star of sufficient mass that has aged to the point at which its energy core has decayed into denser...
Abstract: The world has had many great teachers who have planted a seed for the spiritual transformation of society. People largely ignored their call, or, worse, persecuted them. Most are simply not ready to hear that the very fabric of the...
The Grand OrderSebastian Lopez Light calls forth the inner radiance of a chair or tree as a manifestation of the HolySpirit. All objects and forms are conceived originally within it. All things have aurasor energetic imprints and resonances. The...
Abstract: In this essay I want to capture some of the jewels of what is possibly the most significant stage of our lives. Living in London more than ten years ago, I came across an elegant and glossy pamphlet in a friend’s apartment. It caught my...