Category: Perennial Philosophy
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Hacking Your Education, Part 2
And here is part 2 of the talk I gave in September 2012 to students at the University of North Texas. [You can find Part 1 here.] Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 2 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo.
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Hacking Your Education, Part 1
A talk I gave to a group of University of North Texas students back in September. Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 1 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. [You can watch Part 2 here]
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Textimony 20121111
Would you make grief? Then hold tight to what is born & must perish. Would you find joy? Then let the unborn & imperishable hold you. Love & do what you will!
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Textimony 20121110b
All Encompassed, none apart or alone. Love is this first sigh. Love is that last gasp. Love is always already the only word.
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Textimony 20121110a
Convictions benefit none when they are baseless: hopes for wisdom signify naught without love disclosing a resolute path to the heart of this Beautiful Order.
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Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!
Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately and aggressively reframing the status quo as an outrage, whether…
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Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”
A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book compels us to ask. Philosophers became insignificant when philosophy became…
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American Self-Making: More of the Long Con
The Long Con is the sting we pull on ourselves, where we become our own mark which might be why we are able to get others to play along: the self-con generates profound belief by others because we are so trapped in our own pseudo-authenticity. That is, con = confidence:…
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A Boon of Dandelions 4
Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that any person can cheat whatever aspect of life is the…
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