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Perennial Philosophy

  • 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. Continue reading

  • 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. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121104

    In decisive existence, reason embraces emotion & passion, undoing fear’s grip so that desire may touch our great possibility in this Beautiful Order: Freedom. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121101

    Conditions where desire or fear overtake to unmake us: a mind full of superfluity, a belly empty of nutrition, and a heart out of sync with itself. Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 5

    Creatures of emotion. & passion… reason is not our better power but our guiding power, our focus & adjustment. To sense, to cognize,  to remember, to imagine, to judge, to believe: these are all ways that we reason. Brought together… Continue reading

  • The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter: Alchemy in the American Colonies « Newtopia Magazine

    Next time somebody tries to pull the “America was founded by good Christians who were regular church goers, pull this info out on them. Thanks to Zeteticus @ Soul Spelunker for Scooping this interesting piece. Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • The War that Never Ends: Thucydides & Plato

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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… Continue reading

  • Detaching-Letting Go-Releasing Yourself

    A nice blog entry from over at Miati Notes on Toxic Relationships that certainly goes to the heart of what I have been feeling over the last few days. As listening to Frank Herbert’s Dune this morning reminded me of… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 2

    Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained… Continue reading

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition,… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 1

    48 Revolutions Round Sol… 4 X 12 cycles, from the Year of the Green Wood Dragon to the Year of the Black Water Dragon. Maybe this “mind,” maybe this “I” is but a phantom radical of some complicated fleshly life… Continue reading

  • Ending The War Between Athens & Jerusalem: LA Review of Books

    THE VIEW THAT ATHENS AND JERUSALEM represent two very different and antagonistic sources of Western civilization has long been a feature of the Western tradition. It dates back at least to Tertullian’s passionate second-century polemic against Greek philosophy. Those Enlightenment… Continue reading