Spiritual Awakening is both an event and a process, one which is intrinsically defined by a shift in awareness within the individual into consistent experiences of spirit, which can be classified essentially as 'mystical' experiences. This has ...
Cuneiform — The Most Powerful Script Ever Devised
The unique glyphs that comprise the cuneiform writing style were developed in a fashion that was heavily influenced by the writing material. We established in Proto-Cuneiform :: The First Phase of Writing that the cuneiform script began as ...
Bullae — Archaic Accounting System of the Near East
There is a large quantity of convincing evidence that writing was invented by priest-officials in their role of organizing and running ancient cities, at least in the Near East. They gathered together the harvests and other goods, distributing some ...
The Invention of Cuneiform Writing In Mesopotamia
The invention of writing is one of the greatest revolutions to have occurred in all of human history. This statement is in no way superlative, because it was literally with the invention of cuneiform writing that we mark the earliest beginning of ...
The Invention of Proto-Cuneiform in the Uruk Period
Early nomadic hunter-gatherers had no use for writing. Yet as humans transitioned into an increasingly sedentary agricultural lifestyle, we saw how bullae appear to have evolved as an early accounting tool alongside the development of concepts like ...
The Source of All Spiritual Knowledge
As an introduction to the spiritual and personal mastery section of this work, I would like to address an important question: where does spiritual knowledge come from? More specifically, where does this individual attain what he (at least) thinks is ...
Mental Toughness :: Cultivating An Indomitable Spirit
Mental toughness is something that I believe most people just do not understand, because they have rarely been in situations where they have had to cultivate it. Don't get me wrong, people are often in these situations, it's just that they do not ...
The Resolution of the Self
The Resolution of the Self takes place throughout the process of spiritual development as a gradual shift within the individual towards greater alignment with, experience of, and identification with Spirit, attained through successive levels of ...
A Consideration of Depth
What does depth truly mean? What does depth mean within the context of an art or discipline? Within the quality of our work and lives, in the realm of learning, personal development, and mastery? Furthermore, what does it require of us, and what are ...
The Learning Process: The Process of Everything
Everything that we do is a process. Moreover, in whatever we could hope to learn, create, or achieve, the process that we go through - from initial inspiration, through exploration, cultivation, progress and accumulation, amalgamation, refinement, ...