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Philosophy as a Way of Life

  • “Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu

    Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of… Continue reading

  • Embracing the broad cosmos

    We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at… Continue reading

    Embracing the broad cosmos

  • The Journey to Mindfulness

    To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order… Continue reading

    The Journey to Mindfulness

  • Getting Started with Phenomenology

    Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in… Continue reading

    Getting Started with Phenomenology

  • Speaking in Tongues

    humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading

    Speaking in Tongues

  • detachment – non-clinging – letting-go

    philosophizing as a way of life: the willingness to embrace uncertainty, and the will to ask questions. loving – believing – living Continue reading

  • Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?

    A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3   Continue reading

  • More on the Night Vigil

    Continuing to collect every bit of popular writing that points out the importance of the night vigil…even if that is not what they call it. 🙂 …humans did not evolve to sleep through the night in one solid chunk. Until… Continue reading

  • the burden of “white ignorance”

      “…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift… Continue reading

  • Shedding

    Taking out the trash I note a strange movement Near my feet Small garden snake Sliding and undulating Over sidewalk Happy I did not step on her Watching the slipping pattern Do not give more fright Than you have already… Continue reading

    Shedding

  • Socratic Love

    Love is simple. Continue reading

    Socratic Love

  • Zanotti Explores the Philosophy of Everyday Life

    In his first chapter, “What Is Philosophy?” Zanotti explains precisely why philosophy and life are so intimately bound together. The author recalls a time when he reached a crossroads in life, and was presented with two fundamental choices: live or be… Continue reading

  • Night Vigil 22 Oct 2014

    The enduring meaning of a process is the intuitive impulse to create. This is mirrored in the instinctual drives toward procreation and tool making. You can trace back any produced thing to its original. But the original is the expression… Continue reading

  • Hannah Arendt’s challenge to Adolf Eichmann | Judith Butler | Comment is free | theguardian.com

    At this historical juncture, for Arendt, it became necessary to conceptualise and prepare for crimes against humanity, and this implied an obligation to devise new structures of international law. So if a crime against humanity had become in some sense… Continue reading

    Hannah Arendt’s challenge to Adolf Eichmann | Judith Butler | Comment is free | theguardian.com

  • Going out of the way to find the Way

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    Going out of the way to find the Way

  • Philosophers Getting Beyond the Wall

    Does having a PhD in philosophy mean your work opportunities have narrowed down to the academic job market? This assumption seems widespread, for example, a recent Guardian article declares that programs should accept fewer graduate students as there aren’t enough… Continue reading

    Philosophers Getting Beyond the Wall

  • Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference

    …[This] conference offered a vision for what philosophy can be as an intellectual pursuit and what professional philosophy could look like. Such a vision is critically important not only for young women scholars and scholars of color who are considering… Continue reading

    Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference

  • The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State

    We live in a culture where the victim is always the criminal and the criminal is always the victim. When it is a murderer–one without a police shield, of course–this is the sort of thing shouted by all kinds of… Continue reading

    The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State