Is there free will?

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The question of free will is one of the oldest and most enduring questions faced by humanity. It was contemplated by the ancient Greeks in their tragedies, such as in King Oedipus, where it appears that the hero’s fate is predetermined, regardless of his efforts to prevent or change it. The Greeks, and their cultural … Read more

Inner mirror

Today, when the myth of equality is shaken, it is easier to appreciate the wisdom of the ancients who claimed that all things and beings live different lives. Moreover, even in the same person, it is difficult to find two identical states of mind during one day, month, or year. Unfortunately, except for exceptions that … Read more

Not to Surrender to Pessimism

We are living in moments of history – which encompass the lives of all of us – where events are accelerating uncontrollably and often leaving the impression that they are completely out of our control. We know that the passage of time varies according to the inner state by which we measure it. For this … Read more

Gnostics – Part II

Cosmological doctrines The great diversity in gnostic views of the world may be a result of the primary focus on gnosis, which penetrates to the essence, while faith deals more with external matters and therefore provides a lower level of knowledge. Respecting knowledge (gnosis) greatly, gnostics associated faith (pistis) with the ignorance of laypeople and … Read more

Where is our world heading?

Where is our world headed? Typically, two radical and irreconcilable positions arise in response to this question: the greatest and hopeless pessimism and the most fanatical and naive optimism. Hell and paradise. According to an extremely optimistic view, our world follows a straight and upward line where important events go unnoticed. Creation and progress are … Read more