Determinism

  • “What I Have Learned from Owen Potts”

    I have been asked what I have learned most from all my sessions with the great psychic medium Owen Potts. Well, firstly that there is, in a sense, life after death. It is not we that survive, but the spirit that has been within us from conception in this particular incarnation. Not me – but the spirit within me.

  • “Alexander Pope and Determinism”

    Every event is as Directed, as Guided, as Meant, as Intended.

  • “Our Task: To Explore Our Selves”

    Alexander Pope “believed that the world was governed by a divine plan but it was not our lot to understand or even descry it."

  • “All Fates Bespoken”

    Some modern astronomers subscribe to the theory of multiple universes – infinite in number with infinitely infinite galaxies with ever more infinite stars with ever ever more infinite planets. It is said that on one particular planet – Somewhere – exactly, utterly exactly, what we all are doing here now was done already there.

  • Audio Lecture: Tariki and Jiriki – Other Power or Self Power?

    The dualism between Tariki – Other Power – and jiriki – Self Power is central to Dr. Diamond’s work, and indeed is one of the fundamental questions of philosophy. In essence, are our lives basically determined or are our actions the result of free will?

  • “Our Karma: To Ignore Homer”

    Achilles' wrath … such the will of Jove! (The Iliad, trans. Alexander Pope) Achilles' rage … as Zeus' will was done. (The Iliad, trans. Stanley Lombardo)

  • Video: The Tao, Yin & Yang, and Wen

    Dr. Diamond offers a paradigm taken from Chinese philosophy that helps summarize his approach: The Tao - God, Other Power, or The Force; yin and yang - always changing, but always in balance; and wen, the "pattern" of the first two as they interact and manifest in our lives.

  • “The Spherenso of Existence”

    The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicted as a snake in the shape of a circle devouring its own tail. It represents the cyclicality of existence: of life and death and life and death…

  • “Thanks, I Needed That!”

    Is every experience, whatever it may seem to be, somehow Meant to help us with our mothers and, through them, to Beyond? There used to be a TV ad for an aftershave lotion. The man would apply it to his face – which he’d then slap. The punch-line: “Thanks, I needed that!”

  • “The Harmony of All the Billions”

    “A hundred billion stars in our galaxy, hundreds of billions of galaxies beyond our own.”
    –Richard Panek, The 4% Universe

    And there’s the other 96% of which we know nothing – the so-called dark matter and dark energy.