Countries Against Life After Death

I was reading an account of American movies being so popular in China.  But there are restrictions on what movies the dictatorship allows the public to watch. One forbidden movie that was mentioned surprised me—Ghost Busters!   You all remember that one—hilarious!  What’s so subversive about it? 

Even though the movie is a comedy, the idea of ghosts and life after death is forbidden, according to the government. You’re not allowed to think of anything beyond the material world. This is to consign us to a claustrophobic universe, and there are parallels in America where the constraints on what we’re allowed to think are more subtle but just as pervasive.

Ecstasy and Future Humans

 I’ve been tracking what I call human singularities—people who embody rare and extraordinary talents—like Joseph of Copertino, or Arigo, or Lurancy Vennum, etc.. I’m trying to paint a composite picture of what I believe is our latent but still hidden super-humanity.  Call it a portrait, a model of future humans, the next (urgently needed) stage of our evolution.

All the strange manifestations must have some purpose, some meaning. Besides, there’s no reason to believe that we have reached the climax of our full evolutionary potential. Far from it!  Look around at the world. We desperately need to transcend the greed, violence, and stupidity spreading havoc and mayhem everywhere on the planet. Politics alone without a deep collective change of consciousness will never save us.

On Having One's Mind Blown

 

How does somebody with a Ph. D. in philosophy from Columbia University come to believe in impossible things like flying friars?  I’m often asked what got me interested in all the weird stuff—events that seem to break the familiar laws of nature.  Some folks might just be naturally curious.  But what I’ve seen is that people open up as a result of some mind-blowing experience.  Example after example could be trotted out to illustrate.

I won’t try to define the criteria for such experiences, except to say that fundamental ideas about how reality works may be shattered. Let me describe an experience of mine that had such an effect on me. It was April 23, 1971, about 11 PM, a clear night in Greenwich Village, New York. I was in my apartment on the top floor (6^th) at 14 Bedford Street, listening to John Coltrane’s “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost” with my girlfriend. It was the week I had to defend my dissertation at Columbia University, which was about the Myth of the True Earth in Plato’s Phaedo.

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Mind Over Matter: The Extraordinary Potentials Latent Within Us

Michael Grosso

Mainstream science has yet to come to grips with the unexplained powers of the human mind. In this presentation, Michael Grosso describes his research on a mystic regarded by scholars as perhaps the most extraordinary on record for his supernormal powers.

During his turbulent age, Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663) achieved rock-star fame all over Europe. Massive eyewitness testimony exists of his levitations, bi-locations, healings, precognitive and telepathic abilities, shamanic rapport with animal life, and, above all, the astonishing frequency of his love-driven, ecstatic transports. 

Michael believes that the extraordinary potentials revealed in the psychic and spiritual superstars of history are latent within us all​, though these powers have ​seduced ​us ​into ​forgetting this. The talk ​offers​ general suggestions o​f​ how to stir the soil and water the seeds of the creative gifts that are​ naturally ​within us all.

An Evening Lecture & Book Signing
Friday, June 22, 2018, 7:00 pm
Members $28/Nonmembers $33 
(Ticket includes a copy of the book The Man Who Could Fly)
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Michael Grosso, Ph.D.

Michael Grosso, Ph.D., is a scholar, teacher, author, and painter, whose interests span psychical research, metaphysical art, the parapsychology of religion, and, primarily, philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy, and studied classical Greek, at Columbia University, and has taught at City University of New York, Marymount Manhattan College. He has published books on topics ranging from life after death to the mythologies of end time. He presently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the author of The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation.

website: http://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.com/

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