Warren Kinston
3. August 2012 18:00
Those who blow the trumpets for spirituality seem to be a dangerous breed. Perhaps because we are all suckers for charisma.

I suppose it's like smoking. Obviously unhealthy in my eyes from the day I was exposed to it as a child, it took decades till others recognized that. Charisma is as easy to recognize as tobacco smoke. So just see it for what it is.
Spirituality is a vital component of human functioning. When spirituality works, it enables us to be fully human in a very ordinary, everyday sort of way: we know who we are, we are aware of what goes on around us, we contribute, we care about others, we take responsibility for ourselves, we say 'yes' to life, we realize that we are each part of something bigger and greater than ourselves, we see through flattery and shrink from corruption. And so on and so on.
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Warren Kinston
14. March 2012 18:00
The various frameworks within the Root of the Taxonomy are naturally and easily understandable by everyone. They reveal and release a tremendous freedom for the human spirit. A freedom that I do hope will be seized.
So far I have posted what must be one of the simplest accounts of transcendence that exists. All that you require, to transcend your current existence, is the mental freedom to look around at an unsatisfactory aspect and ask yourself "Does it have to be like this?" If you answer "No", then your imagination spontaneously gets to work and you transcend by using your three inalienable transcendental capacities: to be willing, to be purposeful and to communicate (because thinking = communicating to yourself). You have this ability even in a gulag. No-one can take it away from you. More...
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