Dave, Thank you. I'd never heard of "hungry ghosts". But, I knew that some Buddhist traditions, such as Tibet Tantrism, had a profound understanding of the dead and live after death. I read the Tibetan book of the Dead a while back. Some day I will write a paper on the parallels and differences between Theosophy's, Anthroposophy's, Tibetan's, and the Hebraic's (kabballa), occult (or esoteric) teachings about live after death. They must certainly be talking about the same things, only with different words, or 'mind images'.
Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Robison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: August 26, 2002 1:25 PM Subject: Steiner Books Free Forum > At 12:01 PM 8/23/2002 -0400, Robin wrote: > > >Steiner also mentions that we should read spiritual books to the dead in > >order to give them the food they require. Seems like the dead also feed > >off our thoughts when we sleep (only if we had spiritual thoughts during > >the day, which most don't, thence why the dead are starving...). Have > >you any notion of this concept? Or, have you ever seen this phenomenon > >at work? Has anyone? > > In Buddhist philosophy, we have the "hungry ghosts" and they deserve our > compassion too. > > >Today, I found a book called "The Plant Between Sun and Earth: And the > >Science of Physical and Ethereal Spaces" by G. Adams and O. Whicher, > >London 1980. > > One of the mind-blowing classics. Adams goes a bit overboard, delves into > counter-space geometry to a degree only another mathematician will > appreciate. Ms. Whicher's contribution is the wonderful drawings of plant > forms. Recent reprints reproduced these drawings in B&W, a real loss. Seek > an earlier publication if you can, in order to get the full benefit. Some > of the drawings are posted in their original color in the intro class on > <http://www.oregonbd.org/>www.oregonbd.org. > Of course, Nick Thomas has continued this work at http://www.anth.org.uk/NCT/ > > > ==================== > David Robison
