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Perennial Philosophy

  • Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb – Salon.com

    This is so to the point of how “health” & “beauty” get reduced to “physique” & “prettiness.” People would do well to close their eyes and listen to what a person is saying before they look and are sidetracked by… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120809

    The “righteous” see only what is before them;       the Just obtain a more transcendent vision.          Overcoming before, no regretting after.  Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120805

           dry horizon dusk           crimson passion births star shine                cat chasing crickets Continue reading

  • The Brilliant Maelstrom of Possibility

    Two good posts on our emerging and merging realization of the Comprehensive Life-Breath (SOUL, PSYCHE, ANIMA, ATMAN) by Soul-Spelunker: We are swirling within Souls Maelstrom. Round and round we go in this world, and ever downward. But, as we move… Continue reading

  • James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

    Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120804

    Fairness is but one facet of Justice…     Obsess on this alone & you forget such alternatives as Mercifulness without which Justice becomes certain tyranny. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120731

      Virtue seeks justice in a symphony of gentle word & simple deed. Vice seeks justification in a cacophony of bitter talk & manic injury. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120729

    Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

  • Condemning Inhospitable Attempts to Resurrect the House Un-American Activities Inquisition

    It is imperative that the People of these United States not follow down the path that has historically led us astray and caused us to turn on our neighbors as well as strangers. As a colleague of mine–diminutive in stature… Continue reading

  • Bruno Gets to the Matter @ Soul Spelunker

    Please allow me to recommend Matt Dotson’s blog the Soul Spelunker. This new series on Bruno has been fun to read. Giordano Bruno formulated the most impressive theory of matter of any European philosopher, perhaps to this day. Using only… Continue reading

  • Reading Suggestion: Peter Kingsley

    One of the nice things about being an amateur philosopher is that I can recommend publicly to folks things that my professional philosopher friends would never recommend in an open forum even if it is something they happen to enjoy reading. [Peter]… Continue reading

    Reading Suggestion: Peter Kingsley

  • Mentorship

    The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in the love and pursuit of knowledge. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and… Continue reading

  • All and None

    Get-over unnecessary bias. Esteem one: hate the rest. Esteem NONE: esteem ALL. No human position is so absolute that there is no counter-position available. With ALL, certainty melts into insecurity. With NONE, security slips into uncertainty. Let go one: gain… Continue reading

    All and None

  • gospel music

    I am from a family that likes to sing. I started as a young boy in the mid-60’s singing along with my mom and aunts and my brother. Lots of religious music infuses my way of looking at the world.… Continue reading

  • Serving the Masses

    When the titanic apparatus of the mass-order has been consolidated, the individual has to serve it, and must from time to time combine with his fellows in order to renovate it. If he wants to make his livelihood by intellectual… Continue reading