Category: Perennial Philosophy
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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 enlightening. Arising through French from a Latin usage, the centrum…
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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 is that Plato’s dialogues themselves could be referred to as…
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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 moment. In a certain manner to lose yourself as though…
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The import of the Sardonic and the Uncertain
From Frank Herbert’s Dune . Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never persistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a…
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Laying claim
“Only a thought that does not conceal its own unsaid–but consantly takes it up and elaborates it–may eventually lay claim to originality.” Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things (2009, 8)
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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 writers, theorists, artists and teachers. Over the past nine years,…
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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 human history testifies to the ongoing desire to end care…
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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 your hearts toward how you should love all beings. Give…
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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 what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into…
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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 and hovering around 75˚. It could be in the 80s…
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Worrying is Preposterous
Brothers and sisters… Terence McKenna Worrying is presposterous… And you know what else… Culture is not your friend!
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OM Calming Meditation | Youtube
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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” — share their thoughts on why they do (and how…
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Guided Insight Meditation | Joseph Goldstein – YouTube
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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 the borderlands of the Ether.
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