Below is the larger quote from Plato's "The Criteas." This is an incomplete work, the famous one where Plato begins the re-telling of the story of Atlantis. This is where most of today's Atlantean lore actually comes from. Curiously, the work, and the discussion of...
I'm going to talk a lot about the concept of reincarnation on this blog. I just want you to know up front, I’m not trying to sell you a religion or a religious product of any kind, or anybody’s system of belief.
I write a fictional adventure series based on this premi...
This is where the word "lethargy" comes from. The souls of the dead, in preparation to return to life in a new body, must drink from the river Lethe. And so they are made to forget:
All they had learned, all of their passions, all they had worked and suff...
“We’ve invented a sin for which there is no name. We steal the future from our children.” Terence McKenna
The idea of Reincarnation allows for a tremendous amount of justice. What if, for example, instead of turning the Gulf of Mexico into toxic sludge to leave for o...