The Heart Doctrine explores the mysteries of human consciousness, the spiritual nature of the heart, and the question of the existence of an 'I' within the individual-a divine spark, a Monad, a jivatma, a quantum self or 'god spark ' Modern psychology and science have been dominated by "the head doctrine"-the assumption that the material brain produces consciousness and that a human being does not have a true 'I, ' except as an illusory byproduct of neural events in the cerebral cortex. In contrast, mystics claim that the origins of consciousness and Self are related to the physical and...

"Deity ... is in every point of the universe." H. P. Blavatsky (S.D.1888, p. 114) "the Secret teachings ... must be contrasted with the speculations of modern science. To make of Science an integral whole necessitates, indeed, the study of spiritual and psychic, as well as physical Nature. ... Without metaphysics ... real science is inadmissible." H. P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine was published in 1888 and is relatively unknown in modern times. As it happens in this strange universe, Madame Blavatsky anticipated numerous modern concepts concerning the creation of the Universe and the...

The central illusion is that we "know self." People think that they possess capacities which in reality they do not. Primary illusions concern the faculties of consciousness, the unity of I, the possession of will (the capacity to do) and the existence of the soul. The fourth way psychology begins with a study of humans as they are under the conditions of mechanical life and describes the psychology of man's possible evolution. Humans can awaken, experience higher states of consciousness, achieve a unity of "I" and will, and attain the soul. If we understand our illusions, then there is a...