CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Non-violence, non-attachment, non-singularity

    Because we were behind in our class readings/lectures, I spent the day making sure we focused on Jain Dharma. Continue reading

    Non-violence, non-attachment, non-singularity

  • Affects, Bodies, Religions

    Well said as always… Continue reading

  • Bhakti Redux

    Today’s class we went over the concept of Bhakti for a little while before we spent the majority of time in a circle discussing the purpose of education: devotion to learning, coming to knowledge, bettering our situation in the world… Continue reading

    Bhakti Redux

  • Diversity of worship, unity of thought

    Because we had roamed around in and out of a few topics yesterday, I decided to mostly lecture today with the hope that we would catch up a bit but that there would still be a lot of good questions… Continue reading

    Diversity of worship, unity of thought

  • Coordination, Subordination, and Exordination

    Yesterday in our class, the discussion led me to talk for a little bit about a distinction originally made by Marcuse, I believe, regarding soft versus hard totalitarianism. I extended this description out to all manner of group structures that lead… Continue reading

    Coordination, Subordination, and Exordination

  • Ordering expectations

    In Tuesday’s class, we touched on the diverse story traditions from ancient India. My colleagues spent time at the beginning of our meeting talking with each other about what they had discovered about Indian sacred traditions, and what questions this… Continue reading

    Ordering expectations

  • Introducing the Reality of Reality

    Beginning our section on Hinduism today. So I decided to do two lecture sessions. Continue reading

    Introducing the Reality of Reality

  • Ultimate Concern

    For our Thursday class, we began by everyone sitting in a circle on the floor. We stretched out our legs so that our feet touched each other completing the circle. Then we went around the circle and each named a… Continue reading

    Ultimate Concern

  • The Struggle between Monopoly and Cosmopolitanism

    The Cynics were the first people to recognize that monopolitanism was a dangerous mindset which often leads to parochialism, moralism, xenophobia, narrow mindedness, etc. In its stead, they taught cosmopolitanism, or seeing yourself as belonging to the entirety of the… Continue reading

  • Explanations of religion

    Below my lecture from 13 July 2016. Before I addressed the students, we had more discussion on what we take for granted in the everyday world, and then we shared a few things we take for granted about religion. Our questions… Continue reading

    Explanations of religion

  • Taking things for granted

    Lecture from Sacred Living Traditions. Following a class exercise asking “What is a chair?”,  we had small group discussions on “What is religion?” The basic work was to think through what we take for granted, how we do not ask… Continue reading

    Taking things for granted

  • New Museum in Puebla, Mexico

    The Museum of the International Baroque opens up to great acclaim in a city that was once at the crossroads of world trade. Before the Panama Canal, all trade from Asia came across the Pacific Ocean to a port in… Continue reading

  • What is Phenomenology?

    Wonderful elucidation of the inquiry, What is phenomenology? Continue reading

  • never mine

    Reaching out to the limits of the universe Desire stretches–grasp grasping– for a peppermint or whatever Empires rising and falling all of reality just a sweet little distraction Deathless gesture taking-in-hand yet never mine   Continue reading

    never mine

  • Leaving Conservatism Behind | Dissent Magazine

    For me, separating myself from what I now consider a naive move toward Reaganism happened in the late 1980’s when Iran-Contra allowed me to realize it was all just the same old song-and-dance. My anarcho-cynicism evolved over the course of… Continue reading

  • The High Priests of Capitalism

    Richard D. Wolff takes some time to describe how traditional intellectuals and economic theorists keep the superstructure mostly clear of those who disagree. Highly placed economic theorists usually evaluate the system prevailing in their societies very positively and construct celebratory… Continue reading

    The High Priests of Capitalism

  • #harmonquest

    HarmonQuest Trailer: Dan Harmon and His Pals Get Animated – IGN https://t.co/9O9HDt0aXr — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) July 1, 2016 Continue reading

    #harmonquest

  • becoming assimilated

    I am not sure that any society which has had a long history of racism, misogyny, or homophobia–and now transphobia–is really one to which I should be running to assimilate. Continue reading

    becoming assimilated