Perennial Philosophy
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The Matter of Mind
It’s not enough to have a brain. Consciousness—a hallmark of humans, mammals, birds, and even octopuses—is that mysterious force that makes all those neurons and synapses “tick” and merge into “you.” It’s what makes you alert and sensitive to your… Continue reading
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‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: This is the first set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). * ‘You must change your life,’ writes Peter Sloterdijk in his eponymous book of philosophy. His… Continue reading
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Tim Freke – Part 2 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading
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Tim Freke – Part 1 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading
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The Truth and the True
Jaspers and Heidegger appeal to me because I am a mystic who has had mystical experiences: spoken in Tongues, hung over the Abyss, fallen into ecstasy of Nothing, felt the Abiding Presence of the Other, heard the rushing Silence. Each… Continue reading
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Revisiting the Loving Struggle
Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.” Continue reading
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Some More on Loving Struggle
After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I sat down with my… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140309
“To carry communication in all its possibilities closer to reality is the daily labor of philosophy.” Karl Jaspers The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (175) Continue reading
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Dawning Jedi
This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140208
To say that we are on the ONE WAY is not to say there is only a single way. Get to it, now… EXPLORE!!! Continue reading
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Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card
An informative piece from Ptero9 that reminds me how much philosophizing requires going to the margins or as Jaspers would call it, the boundary situations, where we engage in the loving struggle with others who are also attempting self-actualization. So,… Continue reading
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Afternoon Memo 20140202
My MEMO Status update on FB: Some caricature metaphysics as the most meaningless of abstractions: e.g. pondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Such examples work precisely to say that the “beyond” trumps the now/here… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140201
Night Vigil has been occupied with the issue of anthropocentrism. Of course anthropo– means human and –centric means center. So the term means to place humankind at the center of everything. Knowing how -centric got the usage, however, is very… Continue reading
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Marsilio Ficino
Probably one of the least known yet most influential philosophers in the last 1000 years. Another way to understand Ficino and his academy is to examine the various ways he uses the word “academy” and its variants. What one finds… Continue reading
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Ecstasy
“Blessed and holy, I would say, is he to whom it has been given to experience such a thing in this mortal life at rare intervals or even once; and this suddenly and scarcely for the space of a single… Continue reading
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