Consciousness and Contentment: Understanding the lack of contentment and logical thinking in wise men or so called ‘Homo sapiens’

Abstract

We are considered to be highly evolved conscious beings, but if we look at ourselves, do we actually feel that we are there; wise men or Homo sapiens as we call ourselves? In today’s world, reward based conditioning forms our contemporary culture that deeply defines how we look at life and how we intuitively perceive our consciousness. Presently, acquisitions are our priority and we behave as narcissistic conditioned puppets and let governments and corporations rule our lives. We are hypocrites that can see, but behave blind; blinded within the realms of our short-termed thrills, joys and beliefs. Augmenting logical questioning and logical conditioning is the only way we can come out of this state that cannot be done individually, it has to be a collective effort. This paper is an attempt to understand our very own evolved consciousness and its relation to the current world with the true meaning of our existence, where we seek to understand it from a logical sense.

Keywords:  Contentment, Consciousness, Logic, Reward, Conditioning

 

The ubiquitous and fundamental nature of consciousness makes it subtle and of central importance where the manifestation takes place within the sea of its existence to shapes and forms that brings out the beauty of our consciousness (Pereira and Reddy 2017). Scientists have shown that from birth we continue to grow throughout our lives shaping and reshaping our consciousness, building our ability to achieve by means of rationality and focused approach to understand what we are. Unfortunately, we have ended up pursuing interests ranging from material possessions to impressing our social circles, seeking momentary thrills and growing our greed exponentially. The world that we live in today depends on how we are judged by our social circle and by society at large seeking to be like the other (Baumeister and Leary 1995). Our opinions and our identity today depends on our reward driven obsessive system wherein our natural tendency to logical questioning gets discouraged and we are rewarded for actions that we often don’t see the meaning of and become dedicated to seeking approval of others (Edwards 2017).  Our whole purpose of life is the life of others, which comes with reward based conditioning at an early age. Kindergarteners and first-graders demonstrate a high level of enthusiasm with their logical questioning and thinking, as they question everything around them, but as adults this curiosity fades away where the focus is on acquiring to be content of materialistic desires and beliefs (Peterson 1979).  

Lack of contentment leads to greed wherein the scope of logical thinking is diminished (Chan 2009). Politicians scare us with inaccurate claims, while corporations lure us into happily consuming toxic substances advertised along with an imagery of laughter and joy preferably from known individuals who are idolized to be perfect in society (Zaller 1999; Cawley et al 2013). To understand how we have changed, we need to go back a few years when cell phones were considered inappropriate for teenagers or for use on public transport and we could barely imagine why anyone would want to put random thoughts along with personal pictures on the internet for everyone to see. But this has changed, now about everyone is sensitized into having an active social media account and in only a few years taking selfies went from a strange and narcissistic habit to a cultural norm leading to mental health issues and suicidal cases (Alloway et al 2014; Ling and Haddon 2008); as if we opened the door way to hell. In a world with a continuous stream of tragic events we can easily be influenced by the chaos, but we no longer risk our lives in order to make a difference; our inaction kills on a daily basis while we mentally recite to ourselves the mantras we have been taught and join in the hypocrisy. We are conscious beings and we had to go through a long way to reach here; a journey which began in the stars.

Why have we become what we are? It is an existential question and the answer lies in our evolution and our manifested consciousness. We often question our consciousness with respect to all our trivial problems unknowingly seeking answers from the thoughts that reside in our subconscious. We are practically nothing and we came from nothing and there is nothing there to see when we seek consciousness. As a fundamental constant, energy exists and we see it manifested as work force, consciousness is also a fundamental constant that exists, and we observe it as an experience. In our quest for finding some sort of core of what we are, we can look even deeper and zoom in on the basic building blocks of what we are made of, but if we peer into the individual molecules that make up our cells, our findings become mysterious, not only will we not find any mysterious trace of a soul, we will also not bump into any kind of structures that science claims as tiny particles that everything else is made of.  We are waves that behave similarly to vibrations of sound or ripples in water, built in the oscillations of matter, the peaks and valleys of these quantum waves are not made of anything tangible, they are waves of probabilities. Our universe is inherently probabilistic and all the things in it cannot be 100% predicted with certainty (Villenkin 1989) but does exist as patterns or fractals (Schmitz 2002; Reddy and Pereira 2016) manifested out of nothingness.

Consciousness and nothingness are constants which we can never seek; made up of nothing but a sea of probabilities via the route of evolution over a period of 4 billion years. Our consciousness is an event of capacity for learning and course correction, making us sentient or self-aware, capable of interpreting our own evolutionary drives and our purpose in ways that can even go against our survival. Despite knowing that we have come such a long way by nurturing our own consciousness; we seem to be less content with everything that we have gained. The mere thought of our existence in actuality should make us leap in joy, but we frown over thoughts and things, which are short-lived and trap ourselves into the deep depths of needs and greeds. Somehow our cognitive evaluations seem to dominate in the overall evaluation of life and we infer happiness on the basis of our content (Rojas and Veenhoven 2011). We evolved for a reason wherein all the mechanisms that we learnt were to overcome the obstacles in our path where life fundamentally aligns itself with reality, genetically and biologically, instinctively and intellectually. But as we grew we aligned ourselves to imitating others, parents, friends, teachers and with various cultural and religious influences which over powered our true inner selves. This is not something that we are born with, but get forced into, because our reward system only values their approval more than logical deduction, trying to live up to the expectations of society and family (Combes 1998).

In the present we can much better comprehend the cold heartedness of a career fixated individual if success or social validation is what he or she craves more than anything else in comparison to an individual who spends all resources helping siblings or parents wherein family is this person’s core drive (Wood 2000). Lack of contentment in adults is usually a result of a childish attachment that lurks in our subconscious; where the sub conscious overcomes our inner consciousness making us dependent on a thought that is created by the world around us and not by the logical thought provoking process that is suppressed within us. We often see logic as the opposite of emotion but instead it is the engine of our emotions and it provides reliable answers when we are frustrated or confused (Ciompi 2003). Logic is what creates rhythm or structure; is fundamental in the melody of music and the colors and symmetry of flowers, it creates biological machinery so intricate and rich that they can become self-aware, capable of love and selflessness being able to observe the majestic logical patterns that created them. Logic is innocence, the prime directive of our consciousness, which we must value as such if we want to break free from the clutches of hollow reward mechanisms.

Satisfaction can be achieved when one can feel the flow of consciousness; can experience the outcome of consciousness; can understand the subjective state of consciousness and most importantly, understanding the nature of acknowledging the relevance of consciousness and its beauty (Pereira 2015). Consciousness plays an active role in processing information and making decisions (Koch and Crick 1991), it has a say in what our most deeply rooted core motivations are; concepts and ideas only have power over us when we emotionally invest and hold on to them. If logic is not applied the role of consciousness is diverted from its task positive network of making us selfless, clear-headed and focused to actually being a selfish, confused and unsatisfied individual. Logic pushes the limits of our consciousness to explore the vastness of its emptiness; it creates an awareness that is often described as being in the present or being in a state of flow wherein rather than identifying with our thoughts we become an observer of them and are much more inclined to follow reason over impulse (Brown and Ryan 2003). The best example to understand the importance of logic is when we apply it to superstition, which has reduced considerably over the years because of our logical thinking, wiping away our sub conscious values, which we had gathered in the past. Logic makes us selfish in the other sense, where we become selfish for love, compassion and kindness, which are derivatives of a mind that uses our inner consciousness.

Reward based conditioning is what drives the lack of satisfaction that urges us to survive on greed and envy. We need to realize that we live in a probabilistic universe which emerged from a probabilistic occurrence not known till date, in such a probabilistic universe with our ability to reason we can come up with pretty good approximations of what the best action is at every point in our lives and if done in the sense of logic can supersede our subconscious values of social validation and greed for reward and recognition. Everything takes place in our consciousness and there are no limits or borders of what is a part of our existence, nothing is external (Pereira and Reddy 2017). Each second the consciousness that emerges from our perception is different, sometimes unrecognizably so from what it was a second before. The truth is that every moment we are a new entity that existed only for that one single moment and will never manifest itself again; no experience can truly be replicated; no identity can ever reflect an ever changing synergy in the endless stream of experience. The only place where this memory resides is within the infinite space of nothingness that we are all made up of.

For their benefit, philosophical or religious beliefs tend to provide an explanation to our existence conditioning us with the concepts of sin and fear in relation to the existence of an external granting source. Seeking the path of logic and science in the infinite realms of our consciousness provides an expression of the emptiness that exists within all of us and its importance and falsifies such kind of beliefs. The void is what decides and manifests for us; the nothingness is where all physical and non-physical emerge. Consciousness emerges from the vast interplay of star dust becoming aware; countless genetic mutations for thousands of years led to the evolution of culture and necessity to form complex thought and finally our current society’s condition, education, social influences and parental guidance all elements combine to eventually creating these experiences; all of it is interconnected. Despite knowing all of this our individualistic ideology programs us to only care when there lies a benefit to themselves making them inherently selfish wherein our ideology is a façade; a collection of excuses that we let ourselves and each other get away with. An attempt to be logically selfless can seem scary as it threatens all the conditional attachment that emerge in a culture where enjoyable feelings are considered the ultimate goal but it leads to far more fulfillment than chasing our positive emotions as our ideology demands.

Conclusion

We are deeply programmed with a set of requirements that must be fulfilled in order for us to experience abundance; requirements that are often so elusive that we become mostly entrapped in this scarcity mindset but as soon as we see through this which can be achieved in many ways, we are able to distinguish truth from indoctrination, to dispel our confusion and dissolve our apathy. Behind everything there is a logical reason we can find when we choose to follow curiosity rather than fear. We don’t have to feel regret or guilt when we know our intentions are pure and we did the best we could at the time with the knowledge that we had. The world can seem like a cold and dark place when this knowledge leads us to recognize the selfish motives behinds people’s actions and how it causes idealistic movements to scatter and fall apart but with these insights those who choose to not make life about them and can seek out and trust each other.   Over billions of years molecules configured themselves into complex units that we call human beings; these units are like cells in the body of humanity wired to evolve and move it forward. This is what brought about the evolution of manifested consciousness wherein we became highly conscious beings with the ability to create and destroy ourselves. Evolution has fundamentally programmed us so that we want our beliefs to align with reality. Logic is innocence, the prime directive of our consciousness, which we must value it as such if we want to break free from the clutches of hollow reward mechanisms that exist in the world today.

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Dr. Contzen Pereira (Editorial Board Member/Contributor)
Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India
Corresponding Author. Address: Nandadeep, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 099, India. Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

 

ALCHEMY OF LIGHT

Deciphering the Trinity of Soul Curriculum Systems

ABSTRACT

Cosmological conceptions around the world have similar paradigms about the creation of the manifested universe. They postulate creation as a series of emanations of energy, principally light energy, in various gradations or levels of manifestation. On the other hand, standard scientific paradigms postulate light as having wave and particle properties, both linear and nonlinear. These two metaphysical frameworks are used as backgrounds to examine the nature of the soul, and the possibilities of various soul curriculum systems. In the light of these findings, an argument is made for the case of nonlinear reincarnation as an alternative and deeper way of understanding the evolution of the soul.

PROLOGUE: From the Book of the Oneness

And the One did create the Wandering Orb, slicing a fragment of Its Fundamental Quintessence. And the Wandering Orb prepared to sail into the Darkness of Primordial Night. But the Oneness did enable the Wandering Orb to have a final gift before its maiden voyage. The Oneness cut a portion of Its Infinite Arm and out gushed a Chalice full of its Quintessence. The Blood then merged into the Heart of the Wandering Orb, which began to pulsate with the rhythm of Infinite Grace.

Then the Wandering Orb began to voyage within the Labyrinth of Infinite Darkness. And the Oneness receded from its Perception. The Heart of the Wandering Orb, filled with the Quintessence of Oneness began to know Power.

The Power of Life. The Power of Death.

The Power of Creation. The Power of Destruction.

But the Wandering Orb, travelling the Ecstasy of Night, also began to experience a rare kind of power, the Power of Ignorance. For, travelling further and further from the Oneness, it began to forget the Oneness itself.

It thought that it was Alone.

It then knew it was Alone.

It realized it was Alone.

It experienced that it was Alone.

It wished that it was not Alone.

And thus, in its Heart, began the wish to search for something, someone.

To banish the feeling of Aloneness.

Thus, began the perilous search for the Other, in the Bosom of Infinite Night!

In the Bosom of Infinite Night……

THE SEPARATION OF THE ELEMENTS

While the Wandering Orb was traveling within the Bosom of Infinite Night, several things have been happening to it/her.

The first event was that the Elements of Being have been gathering strength within her and have been yearning for release.

Even without a mate, the Wandering Orb is pregnant.

Pregnant with possibility.

Fire has been conceived within her, within the Wandering Orb.

Air has been conceived within her, within the Wandering Orb.

Water has been conceived within her, within the Wandering Orb.

Earth has been conceived within her, within the Wandering Orb.

But a final Element is not yet born.

The final element is not yet born.

Not born.

Yet to be born.

And these Elements of Being yearn for release, birth and expression. Such is the power of the Wandering Orb, a legacy of its nativity.

For the Wandering Orb is a vessel of Power, filled with Imajica Potentia, derived from the One. But, the second event that is gaining strength within it is the Power of Ignorance. As the Wandering Orb sails deeper and deeper into the bosom of Eternal Night, its parameters of Ignorance has been increasing.

The Wandering Orb is beginning to forget that it has a beginning.

The Wandering Orb has forgotten that it was created by something else.

The Wandering Orb, filled with ignorance, has started to contemplate that it is the beginning.

The beginning of all creation.

The Wandering Orb has become deluded, a delusion inspired by the spark of ignorance.

The Wandering Orb is starting to get lost.

THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

Filled with Imajica Potentia, the Elements coalesce and are gifted with definition.

The Elements are being born.

Fire mixes with itself and then is born. This is the first Heptarchy, the first level of Being.

Fire interacts with Air, this interaction is then born as a separate force. This is the second Heptarchy, the second level of Being.

Air mixes with itself and then is born. This is the third Heptarchy, the third level of Being.

Air interacts with Water, this interaction is then born as a separate force. This is the fourth Heptarchy, the fourth level of Being.

Water mixes with itself, and then is born. This is the fifth Heptarchy, the fifth level of Being.

Water interacts with Earth, this interaction is then born as a separate force. This is the sixth Heptarchy, the sixth level of Being.

Earth mixes with itself and then is born. This is the seventh and last Heptarchy, the seventh level of Being.

Elements have been born.

The Elements are born.

The Seven Elements are born.

Born, from the plethora that is the Wandering Orb.

And so the Universe comes into Being.

A Universe is born.

Born, from a Mother.

The Universe shall call the Wandering Orb its Mother.

THE PROGENY OF LIGHT

And now the Wandering Orb is able to express itself.

The Orb is able to express itself into the planes of manifestation.

How does the Orb express itself?

It takes the manifold structure of the Heptarchy and produces an Emanation.

The Wandering Orb produces an emanation of purity, upon the evocation of the following:

“Let there be Light!”

INTRODUCTION

            The Cosmos is a Oneness. This Oneness has a tendency to enter into dreamworlds within itself. To manifest essences, punctuations and existential realms within the Infinity of its array. To do that, it emanates singularities, polarities, trinities, quaternities and multiplicities. But the balance of the Oneness never wavers, never strays from the harmony of its spheres. It never strays from the central ground of absolute symmetry. 

            The purpose of this mystic treatise is to explicate the trinity of soul curriculum systems, their similarities and differences, and their relationships to soul evolution and ascension. A further goal of this treatise is to highlight the nonlinear reincarnation model as a deeper and more encompassing way of understanding the development and evolution of consciousness. 

PROGENY OF LIGHT: Emanations of Being from the Tree of Life

            In order to understand the soul, its nativity as light and its culmination in heaven or paradise, we need to understand its origin or source. The Kabbalah, the sum total of Jewish Mysticism, has a very beautiful explanation of the origin of the soul. The conceptual framework for the origin of the soul can be traced to the theoretical paradigms of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and its various emanations. According to Jewish mysticism, Divine Providence manifests itself into the phenomenal Cosmos by the presence and development of various emanations, now called sephiroth. In the beginning, there is a nameless Void, which is nevertheless filled with potency. This is called the Ein Sof. This void then manifests itself in the phenomenal Cosmos as a manifested singularity, which the Kabbalistic masters term the Kether. Kether bifurcates into two, Chokmah and Binah, which further evolves into the other sephiroth. In the most comprehensive terms, this implies that the singularity develops into a polarity, which then develops further into a trinity, which later again develops into a quaternity. Taken as a whole, this beautiful mystic paradigm describes the continuous creation and transmutation of various forms of energy in the manifested universe. 

It is interesting to note that this fundamental template for the Progeny of Light has echoes and similarities in at least three disciplines or systems of thought. The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras has echoed this theme in his time, with his theory of Reality as number, as symbolized in the classical tetraktys. In this mystic paradigm, number is seen as symbolizing the potency and power of energy and its permutations. In the Pythagorean paradigm, 1 evolves into 2, which evolves into 3, which evolves into 4. From this, the celebrated mystic templates in the various esoteric arts of wisdom have emerged: Fire, Air, Water and Earth. The four sacred elements. This is just a highly symbolic way of explaining the emanation, propagation, and evolution of Energy into Mind, and then later into the plethora of forms in the manifested universe. 

In Eastern philosophy, echoes of this paradigm or framework also exists in the mystical stream of Taoism. Ancient Taoism has taught and maintained that in the beginning, there was the Tao, or the Way. This Tao later develops and evolves into the “ten thousand things.” This metaphysical and ontological position is actually very similar to the Kabbalistic and Pythagorean mystic paradigms and echoes similar concepts, assumptions and sentiments. In the medieval Renaiisance, this template also underwent a massive artistic elaboration in the beautiful images and archetypes of the Tarot, a symbolic language of exceptional power.

TRANSMIGRATION OF LIGHT: The Nature of the Soul Curriculum

The basic tenet of reincarnation as soul pilgrimage in its ultimate manifestation has been a concept that has been explored by a variety of spiritual masters and mystical thinkers throughout world history, most notably by Lord Plotinus himself (Clark, 2016). One of the greatest mystics of all time, Lord Plotinus discoursed about the verities of the soul world, and his spiritual, mystical and metaphysical teachings have been immortalized by his eminent disciple, Porphyry. In the spiritual and metaphysical architecture of Lord Plotinus, there are various emanations of being from the bosom of the Oneness, and these emanations give rise to various realms of being. This position is actually very similar to the theoretical position of some quantum physicists. 

The essence of Spirit encases itself in various case sheaths, or vehicles of exploration in order to make contact with the sensual apparatus of the realm it is exploring. On the other side of the fence, the beings currently navigating that particular realm or dimension are also possessed of certain distinct sensual and perceptual systems which help them navigate and understand the parameters of the realm they are currently exploring. 

The following table characterizes the differences of acquiring a reincarnation viewpoint, comparing the orthodox human perspective with the perspective of advanced spiritual Seekers who possess a reincarnation perspective: 

Table 1: Differences between persons with orthodox views compared to persons with or possessing a reincarnation perspective

            Thus, we can visualize the soul curriculum as a set of goals and objectives laid down by the Higher Self for the fractal souls to accomplish. The Higher Self has made a massive sacrifice indeed by attempting a very, very challenging task. But, by doing this the Higher Self shall in turn reap the benefits of such an existential exercise, in the form of the acquisition of a new set of experiences from its travels in the planes of matter. The nature of the soul curriculum is directly entwined with the principle of reincarnation. This is because reincarnation is the actual methodology that the Higher Self uses to teach its fractal souls. As in science, we can also say that in spirituality that experience is also the best teacher. The reincarnating being shall directly experience and absorb a plethora of experiences which can only enrich and enhance its essence. Within the paths of reincarnation, transcendence and immanence have a unique conversation.  

APOTHEOSIS OF LIGHT: The Mystical Paradigm of Nonlinear Reincarnation

However, this author belongs to a select group of mystical writers and thinkers who have discovered and are advocating the contemplation of a radical form of reincarnation. This is the concept of Nonlinear Reincarnation (Rimban, 2017). Seminal ideas of this unique form of reincarnation have been offered in various writings, most recently Nonlinear Thought in Metaphysics, Psychology and Education (Rimban, Journal of Metaphysics and Connected Consciousness, July 2017). The idea for this form of reincarnation can be visualized by looking at a painting. We look at a painting in a nonlinear way or holistic way. We do not look at it in a sequential way. In Nonlinear Reincarnation, the Higher Self, situated in the higher dimensions, pre-selects a set of lives, to be explored by its fractal souls. The Higher Self, immortal, hyper-intelligent and totally secure in its foundation in the higher realms, can look at its set of lives holistically, guiding them with art, elegance, wisdom, compassion and an intelligence that is beyond the understanding of beings in the physical realm. Dr. Eben Alexander, one of the foremost neurosurgeons in the world, who was able to journey into the higher realms while being comatose for days, gives a startling revelation of the power of nonlinear dynamics in his book, Proof of Heaven (Alexander, 2012). This book is highly recommended as an initial starting point for those who want greater understanding of the power of higher dimensions and alternate realities.

            We can say that there are two ways of apprehending Ultimate Reality. One is the sequential mind pattern and methodology and the other is the nonlinear mind pattern and methodology. The predictive powers of the sequential mind, in its own context, are awesome, for it seeks to create, cultivate and propagate alphabets of understanding, which it uses to navigate from the known to the unknown. These alphabets are all the languages, from the linguistic forms to the mathematical worlds, to the computer languages and thence into all the symbolic forms. These languages are powerful in their own right, for they give rise to a certain kind of internal logic that arises out of their syntax and coding. Like a game of chess or the set of equations in geometry, these languages persist for they can define protocols in their own worldspheres. Remember that all forms are fractals of the Cosmos, and therefore partake of its power. In this sense, sequential constructs have an abundance of order. Why? Because that is the part of the Cosmos that they express. The problem, however, occurs when the sequential mind attempts to translate these languages and interpret the Cosmos as a whole. Here the map fails. And it fails miserably! The Cosmos is too awesome to be interpreted by any kind of mental map, however profound that map is. A map is still a map. Thus, there are limits to what a map can understand.

            On the other hand, the nonlinear processing aspect of Ultimate Reality apprehends multidimensional realms simultaneously. It is like looking at an art form, or listening to a piece of music, or watching a dance performance.  The whole is assimilated completely, not part by part like the one in sequential thought. The learning style is holistic, and the learner assimilates a large amount of data. In the same way, by configuring his fractal souls as nonlinear processors, the Higher Self is able to assimilate a very large amount of data. He assimilates a large amount of data simultaneously, all coming from the many lives that he has, which are happening all at once! This is an awesome discovery and could revolutionize world thought. Nonlinear reincarnation can also explain the fact that most humans do not have memories of past lives. This is because human souls reincarnating in the nonlinear manner do not have past lives. What they have are parallel or nonlinear lives! The experiences of the fractal souls of a being undergoing nonlinear reincarnation yield an incredible amount of data, processed at an astoundingly prodigious rate. The Higher Self with nonlinear fractal lives is a learner par excellence.

            Thus, this author would like to encourage esoteric, spiritual, mystical and metaphysical seekers of all kinds to discover, research, study and learn more about the possibilities and permutations of nonlinear reincarnation. It is an idea whose time has come. It may bring to light many of the darker aspects of consciousness that humanity has failed to process since the dawn of time. It may bring to light many of our universal questions and provide definitive answers to many of our hypothetical dilemmas.

The following table presents, compares and contrasts the two different models of reincarnation:

Table 2: The Two Different Paradigms of Reincarnation: Nonlinear Reincarnation and Sequential Reincarnation

EPILOGUE: The Prayer to the Higher Self

            If you are interested in understanding more about the mysteries of our world, the following prayer is suggested for connecting deeply to our Higher Selves:

PRAYER TO THE HIGHER SELF

Higher Self, beloved of my soul.

I love you with my whole being.

I thank you for the life you have given me.

Teach me to reach out to you, as you reach out to me.

Teach me to commune with you, as you commune with me.

Teach me to journey in life with you, as you have journeyed since the origin of the Cosmos.

Presently, in my soul location, there is a dilemma in the Conversation between Order and Chaos.

Teach me to examine this dilemma and bring forth the solution.

With everlasting love, now and always.

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Sensei Erwin Rimban was born in the Philippine Islands. Since a young age he has been fascinated by the esoteric realm and avidly read books on world history, philosophy, astrology, mythology, the social sciences and similar fields. Educated at the University of the Philippines, where he graduated Cum Laude, he added Evolutionary Biology to his plethora of interests. After graduating from college, he spent many years in the tourist destination of Baguio City where he pursued a career in writing and teaching, while at the same time finding time to be a meditation teacher. His hobbies include chess, poetry and Tarot counseling. Currently, he is active in organizational work, where he is promoting advocacies in educational philosophy, spiritual counseling, and environmental issues. He is also the founder and mentor of a learning organization and Wisdom Community, the ANAM CARA Philippines Learning Organization. He has written numerous essays on wisdom, metaphysics, mysticism, psychology, history, educational philosophy and psychotherapy