This recording is not a "how to" presentation on meditation, but rather a philosophical dialogue on the necessity of maintaining a practice of meditation in the modern world.

A philosophical look at who we are drawn from current research.

The social milieu of the Buddha's life and early Buddhism.

Theosophy portrays the human being as being a part of nature, a microcosm in the macrocosm. Although the individual human being is a whole, for purposes of study and analysis it is convenient to look at the parts which go to make up that whole. The Secret Doctrine and the Mahatma Letters describe the human constitution as having seven principles. This discussion defines those principles and explains how they are related to the supreme spirit, or Atman....