Freedom and power are two conditions which we meet with in this world, however they are restricted by the environment and the society into which we live. Even a mythical king of the world could not enjoy complete freedom and power. As for immortality, it cannot exist in a perishable universe, it is none but a concept of the mind which shields us from the fear of death and of the unknown, a shield which helps us to have a purpose in life and to maintain our sanity --- whatever sanity within the set of standards of diverse societies may be. Complete freedom and power belong to the mental realm and there they may be achieved. Immortality is a concept which, as stated, cannot belong to a physical universe hence it cannot be described but this does not rule out its existence so long as we go a step further and give up the notion of immortality as something "individual". You as "you" - that which you are here and now - will never know eternal life. No one will ever meet with eternal damnation in hell or eternal beatitude in heaven, nor will you - hell and heaven being nothing but states of mind within ourselves, right here and now, no matter what the priest, bikshu or nullah will tell you.

Little needs to be added to Nasruddin's story. Freedom, power and immortality are man's unending quest and in this world of savants, sycophants, pundits and gurus the roads pointing to them are innumerable - yet just a few make sense. History's value is indeed recognized as extremely useful, knowledge is nothing definitive but an evolutionary process and this clearly points to the fact that within the bulk of knowledge accumulated through the centuries - amidst innumerable fantasies and a lot of nonsense - we find the seeds of the tree which may satisfy our quest. But this tree must be watered with uncontaminated water, we must create anew the rich soil wherewith to thread our path.

Freedom, power and immortality are not a myth insofar as they are intended as tangible spiritual values. The attainment, paradoxically, is through loss of freedom or, in other words, becoming slaves to our true self. The means are to be found in the great literary works of the past but they must be stripped of the irrational and be refined with the help of our current scientific knowledge and that is the indispensable prerequisite.

In this section you will not find astral creatures, reincarnation, the kundalini or the coiled serpent which is to be seen in the picture of Asclepius above, nor chakras, sacred circles and all sorts of helpful esoteric symbolism or nonsense which is so attractive to the inquiring mind but down-to-earth writings which are useful to gap the bridge between the self and the mind or, rather, which help to reveal the mind to conscious awareness for what it is: the self-less self.

The emphasis will be on works related to an understanding of the psyche - because that is the pivotal point - from a contemporaneous point of view: the forces which act on our mind, either spontaneously or induced and works which came down to us from the historical past of the quest for truth. Symbolism and archetypes cannot be underestimated hence some anthropological works revealing the building bricks of the human quest for the supernatural are included. Religion, with reference to the contemporary systems, as we see it now in a miserable state and doomed unless the diverse systems won't fuse into a unique body of truth, will obviously creep in but not for the sake of religious aims but because its psychological contents has been and still is, however badly manipulated, the foundation stone of a long historical process. Reports concerning mind-conditioning techniques give a good insight to the way our brains can be forced to act counter-itself hence they become valuable in the contest and some are included. And much more material is to be found in this site's other section, World's Literature. All in all here is not a course in mind-developing techniques but a vast panorama from which the techniques can be extracted choosing the best and most rational hints which may fit your personality.

The greater constraint is the society into which we live with its requirements which are little if any favorable to such a quest: we must toil and run for a living; the search for security and commodities; ambitions, the immersion in the information age and its complex technology which invades our life leave small room to the genuine within ourselves so that favorable conditions practically do not exist. While we cannot resort anymore to hermitage and asceticism it is just an act of will to find - or create - the favorable conditions to pursue this quest: a quiet corner and a little time are not so difficult to obtain.

Freedom power and immortality are not myths, the myths are what usually they are thought to be. It is up to each of us to discover them for what they are and there is the end of the quest ... as well as its beginning. The further you go the longer and wider the path becomes, it flows in endless eternity. And that is where our true self thrives ...

Where mind and Mind fuse there is not an origin nor an end. Where mind and Mind fuse there is no constriction. Where mind and Mind fuse there is power.