This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To start from self does not mean to be selfish. It means to start from premises based on human life and the rest of nature, rather than premises that are the artificial products of the Corporate State, such as power or status. It is not an ‘ego trip’ but a radical subjectivity designed to find genuine values in a world whose official values are false and distorted. It is not egocentricity, but honesty, wholeness, genuineness in all things. It starts from self because human life is found as individual units, not as corporations and institutions; its intent is to start from life.
Character | Ego | Honesty | Individual | Life | Life | Means | Nature | Power | Rest | Self | Wholeness | World |
Isaac Halevi Satanov, fully Isaac ben Moses Halevi Satanov
The beginning of research is curiosity, its essence is discernment, and its goal truth and justice.
Beginning | Character | Curiosity | Discernment | Justice | Research | Truth |
Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow, no matter how troublesome it may be, is not intrinsically evil. The ego, in its refusal of insight and its refusal to accept the entire personality, contributes much more to evil than the shadow.
Character | Ego | Energy | Evil | Gold | Insight | Personality | Truth |
We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences.
Character | Consequences | Truth |
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Absolute | Character | Contentment | Immortality | Man | Nature | Rest | Spirit |