Perennial Philosophy

  • Thanksgiving Message 2013

    Today, we give thanks. Let our thinking then not turn to things. How can we turn this gift–our being able to think–toward a mere list of the things that we have or that we still want to obtain? Rather, turn… Continue reading

    Thanksgiving Message 2013
  • Art and Inner Spaces

    “Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s… Continue reading

    Art and Inner Spaces
  • tilting between dusk and dawn

    groggy from napping rainy yet warm Texas dusk feeling out of place The weather has been out of sorts in Denton lately. Tomorrow is Halloween and we have yet to have a real cold snap. The weather has been humid… Continue reading

    tilting between dusk and dawn
  • Worrying is Preposterous

    Brothers and sisters… Terence McKenna Worrying is presposterous… And you know what else… Culture is not your friend! Continue reading

    Worrying is Preposterous
  • OM Calming Meditation | Youtube

    Related articles Meditation on Sound (travellerunknown.wordpress.com) Gayatri Mantra and Its Scientific Interpretation (harikrishnamurthy.wordpress.com) “Om – Everythin… (katymobley.wordpress.com) Significance of OM (experiencehinduism.wordpress.com) Keeping concentration during meditation (buddhajourney.net) OM – State of non-return (dierievnia.wordpress.com)   Continue reading

    OM Calming Meditation | Youtube
  • When Talking About Science, We Need More Tony Stark and Less Big Bang Theory | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

    A conversation well worth your time and effort… Editor’s note: Communicating about science can be perceived as a life-or-death issue in some cases, or as hype and stereotype in others. In this conversation, scientists Sean Carroll and Dave Goldberg — dedicated to bringing “physics to the people”… Continue reading

    When Talking About Science, We Need More Tony Stark and Less Big Bang Theory | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
  • Beneath the Surface

    What shows forth only Hints at what hides there beneath. Let not the flower Hide the root, nor allow root To cover the ground. Neither Permit ground to conceal Dào— How strange that would be. Posted by KWB wandering among… Continue reading

    Beneath the Surface
  • Colour My World | The Ptero Card

    Originally posted on Theoria: One of my favorite James Hillman books is his, “Alchemical Psychology,” which I have just recently read. The book is a fascinating tour of the alchemical process and its correlative psychological journey as told to us… Continue reading

    Colour My World | The Ptero Card
  • Amor fati

    Today everyone allows himself to express his dearest wish and thoughts: so I, too, want to say what I wish from myself today and what thought first crossed my heart -what thought shall be the reason, warrant, and sweetness of… Continue reading

  • Methods of Salvador Dali

    A nice overview of the philosophical methods and notions employed by Dali for aesthetic inspiration. Paranoid-Critical: Created in the early 1930’s by Dali himself, the “Paranoid-Critical” method is a Surrealist method used to help an artist tap into their subconscious… Continue reading

    Methods of Salvador Dali
  • Nothingness and Liberation

    As an anarchocynic, I find myself looking through the open and secret history of humankind very often. Part of my apparent contradiction to folks comes from how one must needs hop from this to that to the other in order… Continue reading

    Nothingness and Liberation
  • I contradict myself

    I post something about atheism then write a poem on the Transcendence to the Divine. I throw up the scriblings of mystics but then put forward the theorems of materialists. I co-translate the Dao de Jing yet entertain the truth… Continue reading

    I contradict myself
  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading

  • elective affinity

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading

    elective affinity