Paranirvana of Legendary American Sage Joe Miller, 8/19/92 - "So Long As Love Remembers"

Sandalwood on Lake Minnetonka

After I joined the Theosophical Society, I was visiting a friend of mine back in Minnesota, on Lake Minnetonka. We were walking along and went into some trees. I smelled incense, sandalwood incense. But there was nothing like sandalwood anywhere near there. Then I just took a gentle, in-drawn breath and was fined with ECSTASY.

At that time, I was working in a nightclub and driving a bakery truck too, so I probably had myself honed down pretty fine from the actual work I was doing. But I wanted to feel it again, I wanted that feeling that you couldn’t exactly say was a feeling. It was an ecstasy.

And I wasn’t thinking about anything. It was just a gentle breath. It was there because I was still enough, without anything bothering the conscious mind. So it just happened.

Well, it was about two years before it happened again. I wanted it to come back so much, I cried. And then it happened again without trying. It was just a happening. And I wanted to find out what it was. I even cried that it had come back. It’s like pleasure and pain mixed. You couldn’t call it pleasure, you couldn’t call it pain. It was just an ecstasy.

After a while, I got so that I could just do it with a gentle, in-drawn breath. But it wasn’t me. It’s just tuning into the THATNESS, the IT-ness, God, love, whatever you want to call it. The name you put on it doesn’t make any difference. It’s the experience.

So I can sit here now and just draw on a gentle breath. I wouldn’t dare breathe that way all the time because I wouldn’t want to be walking that high off the ground. But I can sit down and be very quiet and it happens. It’s just an ecstasy in the very air. 

- Excerpt from “Great Song: Life & Teachings of Joe Miller” Edited by Richard Power, Foreword by Coleman Barks

Vectors of Reality - Full Series of Talks Now Available

In 2025, Richard Power gave a series of four talks, “Verities of Being.”

Likewise, in 2026, Power gave a another series of four talks, “Vectors of Reality.”

The “Vectors” series is, in a real way, a sequel to the “Verities” series.

In a meta sense, they can even be seen as single series of 8 talks.

All four talks of the “Vectors” series are now available via YouTube and Substack.

Full videos on YouTube. Full text, slides and video on Substack.

Here are links to the digital artifacts for both “Vectors” and “Verities” -

“Vectors of Reality” YouTube Links (Full Videos)

• Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime (4/19/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 2: Gaian Mysteries (5/17/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful (6/21/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality (7/19/26)

“Vectors of Reality” Substack Links (Full Text, Slides and Video)

• Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime (4/19/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 2: Gaian Mysteries (5/17/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful (6/21/26)
• Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality (7/19/26)

And just in case you missed them, here are the “Verities of Being” links -

“Verities of Being” YouTube Links (Full Videos)

• "Verities of Being, Part I: Shadow (6/15/25)
• Verities of Being, Part II: Siddha (7/20/25)
• Verities of Being, Part III: Shakta (8/17/25)
• Verities of Being, Part IV: Spanda (9/21/25)

“Verities of Being” Substack Links (Full Text, Slides and Video)

• Verities of Being, Part I: Shadow (6/15/25)
• Verities of Being, Part II: Siddha (7/20/25)
• Verities of Being, Part III: Shakta (8/17/25)
• Verities of Being, Part IV: Spanda (9/21/25)

"Tonight, Broadcasting Live from Inside the Singularity" - Final Talk in Richard Power's "Vectors of Reality" Series

On July 19, 2026, Richard Power delivered “Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality.” The final talk in this series.

You'll find the video embedded below.

All four talks are now available via our YouTube channel.

Here are some digital artifacts from this powerful event, including images of the magical beings who made up our circle, along with a few slides from Richard’s presentation itself, AND also some images of the MpowerDance Project’s “Water Changes Rock We Are Here” Art Exhibition currently on display.

This exhibition features the watercolors of Courtney Wynn Sheets and the ceramic sculptures, dance film and photography of Mary Power.

The exhibition which opened in November 2025 will continue into November 2026.

Blessings, Theosophical Society of San Francisco

#noreligionhigherthantruth #nopowergreaterthanlove
#theosophy #theosophicalsociety

Richard Power - "Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality" (7/19/26)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM

Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.  Because you imagine yourself to be out of it, you raise the question, 'Where is the source'?

- Sri Ramana Maharshi (Talks w/ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk #208)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM 

IN-PERSON/ON-LINE: Sunday, 7/19/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality" (ON-LINE via Zoom starts at 5 pm)

ON-LINE: Sunday, 8/2/26, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "Some Recent Science Updates"

IN-PERSON/ON-LINE: Sunday, 8/30/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Elaine Santos presents "Entering Your Love Era w/ Imagery, Breaking the Bonds of Self-Loathing to Experience Love & Bliss" (ON-LINE via Zoom starts at 5 pm)

For more information Elaine Santos' work, visit wellnessasart.com

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SAZz3cA-TpeYdUTvidColg

You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

If you missed Parts 1, 2, or 3, you can catch up on YouTube  (videos embedded below) -

Richard Power - "Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful

Richard Power - "Vectors of Reality, Part 2: The Gaian Mysteries"

Richard Power - Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime

The Great Wheel Turns: Solstice 6/21/26

#Gaia #Solstice #YinYang #YearoftheFireHorse #Theosophy

In this Year of the Fire Horse (Shoutout Shadowfax, “Lord of All Horses”) -

The first of our two Solstices occurs on 6/21/26 at 08:24 UTC

Which means Summer arrives at 1:24 am (PDT) in San Francisco,10:24 am (CEST) in Paris and 4:24 pm (ULAT) in Ulaanbaatar;

AND Winter arrives at 5:24 am (CLT) in Patagonia, 10:24 am (SAST) in Cape Town and 5:54 pm (ACST) in Uluru

The Great Wheel turns; turn with it.

Feel the planetary polarity.

Waves of light and darkness, each the swirling core of the other.

Lean forward.

Images (clockwise):

1. John Constable - Stonehenge (1835)
2. Antonio Canova - The Three Graces (1814)
3. Mithandir (Gandalf the White) w/ Shadowfax (“Lord of All Horses”), Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)
4. Mandala Depicting Kalachakra and Vishvamata, Tibet, first half 16th Century

White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026: "Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious"

On White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026, We Honor the Legend & Legacy of the Incomparable H.P.B.

"Thou canst not travel on the Path before thou has become that Path itself." - H.P. Blavatsky, Voice of the Silence

“Darkness radiates the light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.” - H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

White Lotus Day (May 8th) is the anniversary of the passing of H.P. Blavatsky, the great mystic, adventurer and mother of modern Theosophy. Each year at this time those who carry on celebrate both her remarkable life and her profound contribution to the advance of human evolution. 

Om Mani Padma Hum! 

A few jewels from the writings of H.P. Blavatsky -

"We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike."

"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."

“The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.”

“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”

“Nature isn’t, as your scientists seem to believe, an agglomeration of fundamentally different objects and elements; Nature is a whole, and everything in the organism acts and is acted on by every other thing contained therein.”

“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.”

 “The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.”

Adagio, Moonlight Sonata Performed by H.J. Lim

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM

"To live to benefit [human]kind is the first step." - H. P. Blavatsky,  The Voice of the Silence
On May 8th, White Lotus Day, Theosophists everywhere celebrate the life & work of the great HPB

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE: Sunday, 5/17/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 2: The Gaian Mysteries"

NO MEETING Sunday, 5/24/26 - We Honor Memorial Day

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 6/7/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Jonathan J. Levine presents "Before & After: The Art of Transfiguration"

ON-LINE: Sunday, 6/21/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful"

NO MEETING Sunday, 6/28/26 - We Celebrate San Francisco P-R-I-D-E!

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SAZz3cA-TpeYdUTvidColg

You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

You only have to register once for all four talks.

If you missed Part 1, you can view it on YouTube  (video embedded below) -

Richard Power - Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime