Patterns of Spirituality

Links and References

to more Sites, Books, I.T. Resources, and
Previews of my other Websites

Psychology links come first,
then
Spiritual /Philosophical links
Blogs
Portals and Directories
Books
I. T. Resources
Previews of my other Sites

The Wounded Healer Journal  is a website for psychotherapists, survivors and others who have experienced the devastation of traumatic experiences, including child abuse. At

http://www.twhj.org/twhj/index

Learn about surviving adversity in a world that is not fair. Some people survive, cope, and thrive better against misfortune when they develop their inborn abilities. ThriveNet  has features on resilience, overcoming job loss, serendipity, and more. At

http://www.thrivenet.com/

Highly Sensitive Persons is a site for people who are usually shy, introverted and socially inhibited. Such people are often acutely aware of other's emotions, find a career to be challenging, and yet have a greater capacity for inner searching. Counselling, coaching, mentoring and guidance with Thomas Eldridge. At

http://www.sensitiveperson.com/

One Spirit Project  is a website for facilitating personal growth and spiritual development through commentary and discussion. They encourage new perspectives that will help you find meaning and purpose in your life. Large resource directory, with artistic delights such as mandalas, and an e-zine. At

http://onespiritproject.com/

SagePlace  contains news, articles, books and quotes related to the healing and wholeness of the mind, body, spirit, and environment. At

http://sageplace.com/

Spiritual /Philosophical Links

Paul Brunton was a rare combination, being an accomplished practitioner of eastern meditational techniques, yet also having a western philosophical and analytical mind. He wrote many books on spiritual themes, including one on philosophical idealism (see glossary/booklist). A website devoted to him is the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation, at

http://www.paulbrunton.org/pb.php

Another rare thinker that I admire is Rudolf Steiner. Like myself, he graduated from the confines of traditional concepts of spirituality to becoming an independent thinker. A website devoted to him is the Rudolf Steiner Archive, at

http://www.rsarchive.org/

The Theosophical Society in the UK is a good place to explore the ideas of theosophy and some metaphysical aspects of reality.

http://www.theosophical-society.org.uk/

A site that contains comments about Aurobindo and a selection of some of his writings is at

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Aurobindo/SriAurobindo.htm

Plotinus wrote The Six Enneads. The text of this can be found at

http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.1.first.html

Graham Ledgerwood has an excellent site about mysticism. He has a good section on the Inner Challenges of the mystic way. At

http://www.themystic.org/

Life Streams is a guide for exploring meaning, purpose and experience of life. With transpersonal spirituality, life skills, stories and discussions. At

http://anunda.com/

Eagle Spirit Ministry is a universal ministry that accepts all belief systems and aims to assist all who seek to find the truth within. It provides a wide range of resources. At

http://www.eaglespiritministry.com/

Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies is a site offering kabbalah lessons and information, the wisdom of the kabbalah — questions and answers, FAQs, live lessons and music broadcasts, and audio mp3 lessons. At

http://www.kabbalah.info/

Blogs

Belief Stages and Growth contains stories of growth and stages of belief. The writer supports the idea that spiritual development occurs in stages. She welcomes stories of personal experience and offers comments on them. All stories, whether of an atheistic perspective, or a traditional religious one, or of new age openness, are relevant. Her blog is at :

http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/

Portals and Directories

All Things Spiritual Directory is available to help you find spiritual knowledge in all its manifestations, so you can choose your own path. There are a large number of links to many different kinds of spiritual resources. At

 http://www.allspiritual.com/

The Spirit Search Directory is for the spiritual, metaphysical, and paranormal. At

http://www.spiritsearch.com/

Katinka Hesselink has a website featuring theosophy resources : archives, articles and history. Additionally there are biographies, a list of influential theosophists and more. At

http://theosophy.katinkahesselink.net/

The SpiritHit Project is a religious and spiritual portal, with directory and news sites. The directory is at

http://www.spirithit.com/

Books

Brunton, Paul.
The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga. Rider 1941.

On philosophical idealism, and the differences between philosophical thought and religious/mystical thought. out of print.

---- The Notebooks of Paul Brunton. Larson Publications, USA. A series of books.

Steiner, Rudolf.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. Rudolf Steiner Press 1993.

A guide to spiritual evolution, examining initiation and esoteric training. However, his use of the term "soul" is not the same as my use of it; sometimes he appears to use it in the sense that I use "ego", and he uses the term "spirit" for what I call the "soul". He uses the traditional model of "body, soul and spirit", whereas I use the model "body, ego and soul".

Before the advent of depth psychology, thinkers did not understand the boundary between the ego and the soul. In my view, the bad aspects of the ego were confused with the "body", and the "soul" seems to have been the noble aspects of the ego together with the actual soul.

Farthing, Geoffrey.
Deity Cosmos & Man. Point Loma Publications, USA, 1993. (Available from The Theosophical Society, London UK).

An introductory text to theosophy and the occult nature of reality. However, theosophical books tend to use the term "Ego" as synonymous with the way that I use the term "soul". They use the term "personality" where modern books use "ego".

Wood, Ernest.
The Seven Rays. Theosophical Publishing House, USA. 1979 (Quest Book edition).

An introduction to occult psychology. The seven ways that will, mind and emotion produce the categories of human types.

I. T. Resources

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ImageForge is a complete painting program for creating or editing images, retouching photos, assembling slide shows or picture albums, and more. A free download from CursorArts Company, at

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http://1000files.com/Multimedia_and_Design/Image_Editing/ImageForge_4403_Review.html

IconShop from Peter Stuer is a small freeware tool for creating and managing the icons that you see attached to files in the Favourites menu. It converts a gif or a bmp file into an ico file. Download from Leo's Icon Archive at

http://www.iconarchive.com/

or from LionTech at

http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm

Previews of my other Websites

The site The Strange World of Emotion contains articles on dynamic psychology from several of my other sites. It also contains a section on sexual themes, such as bonding, gender, symbolism and violence. The articles give a panoramic view of the usefulness of this kind of psychology for handling a wide range of difficult issues.

The site Discover Your Mind is my site on dynamic psychology and idealism. It also contains the basic articles on emotion and abreaction. Here I extensively apply my ideas on the mind to an exploration of the emotional dynamics that underlie many fields of individual and social activities. This exploration often opens new avenues for understanding old problems. Most articles in this section range between sexuality, belief and ethics, aspects of identity, power, attitudes, relationships and idealism.

The site Relative Mind, Relative Matter is on philosophy of science. It features ideas on the nature of relativity and proposes a solution to the wave-particle paradox in atomic physics. No maths are involved. The difficulty in conceptually understanding what happens within the atom is due to semantics. Western thinkers have consistently mis-understood the meaning of relative concepts. The boundaries between the three concepts of subjectivity, objectivity, and relativity have not been clearly dis-entangled.

The site The Subconscious Mind contains the two basic articles on emotion and abreaction that are on this site. It has other articles on the psycho-analytic experience, on method, and on the roots and patterns of identity. This site specialises in psycho-dynamic psychology and personal identity.

My site A Modern Thinker is on some traditional themes of philosophy: the pursuit of truth, belief and morality, mind, semiology and sign systems, language, metaphysics, handling paradoxes (especially in atomic physics), and my view of relativity. Overall, the ideas explore meaning in life and the way that consciousness makes sense of reality. No ability in logical analysis is required - only a wide view of life is needed. Many of my ideas are original and reflect my understanding of the subconscious mind. Come and look at new ideas in philosophy.

My site Patterns of Confusion features analyses of various forms of madness, confusion, violence, creative illness, and psycho-somatic disorders. The unconscious ideas that produce such states of mind are explained. In the articles on this website I only consider the causes and effects of psychological conditions on people ; I do not consider any possible physiological or genetic causes.

My newest site World of Emotion features just my ideas on emotion and abreaction. The three articles on emotion and the five articles on abreaction, which are on the psychology sites above, are split up into much smaller page sizes in order to make them easier to read and digest. Otherwise the content is the same.

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