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Perennial Philosophy

  • Maybe Logic Academy

    Goes well with my own thinking about philosophizing and why we keep asking questions. Founded in 2004, Maybe Logic Academy is an innovative online learning institution and community. The Academy features online courses by some our most important and ground-breaking… Continue reading

    Maybe Logic Academy

  • Willingness and Will

    A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in… Continue reading

    Willingness and Will

  • Suffering help

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

    Suffering help

  • 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

  • The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

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    The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

  • 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

  • Cool As A Cucumber

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  • 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