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  • Martine Rothblatt – Transhuman

    Martine Rothblatt – Transhuman

  • #Trumpdacity

    #Trumpdacity

    I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity the says, “Look-come on-the folks want to vote for me…

  • Zen Anarchy

    Zen Anarchy

    And nothing is fixed! The famous master Hyakujo wanted to find an abbot for a monastery. He put a pitcher on the floor and asked what it was, adding, “Don’t say it’s a pitcher.” Some of the smarter monks came up with smart things to say. Then Isan the cook…

  • #MAHATMA – Life of Gandhi (abridged)

    #MAHATMA – Life of Gandhi (abridged)

    This is the abridged version (2hrs 15min) of a 5hrs 10min documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi’s life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values.The purpose of the film is to tell the present and…

  • Bhakti

    Bhakti

    Beginning to gather up different pictures of the god Hanuman for my research. Hanuman, a key figure in the Ramayana and totally dedicated follower of Sri Rama, represents the deep devotion (bhakti) of life to the Divine.

  • Your Own Historical Jesus

    Your Own Historical Jesus

    Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of himself and of his mission, as contrasted with the messianic…

  • A little bit on Crossan’s historical Jesus

    Central to [John] Crossan’s methodology is the dating of texts. This is laid out more or less fully in The Historical Jesus in one of the appendices. He dates part of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas to the 50s CE, as well as the first layer of the hypothetical Q…

  • Whatever, Etc. 0037: Justice and the Tripartite Soul

    Whatever, Etc. 0037: Justice and the Tripartite Soul

    I was asked to drop by and engage in Dialog this evening, Mar 03, at 6pm, with some of my compatriots who are doing a close reading of Plato’s Republic. Live-streaming this for those who want to watch at home or catch it later on Youtube. They are reading Book…

  • Sun – Line – Cave, Part 2

    Sun – Line – Cave, Part 2

    I’ll be returning to talk with students in my friend’s class over the metaphors/myths created by Plato in Books 6 & 7 of Republic: the Simile of the Sun, the Analogy of the Divided Line, and the Allegory of the Cave. I will livestream the class and throw up a…

  • Three Articles, One Post, One BEING

    Like many classes these days, my graduate courses have an online discussion component that encourages students to respond to the week’s readings in a central location so they can come to class already interacting on the topic. My Indian Religion and Ecology class has also done this, and many of…

  • A dancing star in a constellation of lies

    A dancing star in a constellation of lies

    Am I decent man? Perhaps. I would use this opportunity to speak about myself with some pleasure (Dostoevsky 7). But I am not sure it is such a pleasure. Does decency really only allow me to speak about myself? Certainly, speaking from my ownmost experiences discloses me to others. Except,…

  • Sun – Line – Cave, Part 1

    Sun – Line – Cave, Part 1

    A dear colleague has invited me to discuss a few of the metaphors at the heart of Plato’s Republic. So I’ll be live streaming from his class Friday, 26 Feb 2016 @ 1pm… if you are not busy at work or just hanging around the house, join us. Or watch…

  • Mind Walk 17 Feb 2016

    N. and I go wandering around Denton thinking about Carlos Castaneda and letting the thoughts wander with us.

  • Global climate change, local hard choices

    Global climate change, local hard choices

    “Development” multiplies desires and transforms them into needs. But we are the ones who are under-developed – spiritually shallow, debilitated by needs, distracted by things. I wonder about climate change and children. How and when to tell them the bad news? It’s like Santa Claus – all that so-called supernatural…

  • Evaluating broader impacts

    Evaluating broader impacts

    Part of my research assistantship this semester had me helping to complete the organization of a workshop in Washington, DC – Feb 10 & 11, 2016. I had been involved with this project since the grant was originally received 18 months ago. I am happy to pass along here a…

  • Surrealism: I am all yours

    Surrealism: I am all yours

    A new video from a local Denton talent, Julian Patrick Quinn.

  • Line – circle – motion 

    Line – circle – motion 

    My pedagogy: I do not claim to know things that will make you more intelligent, more wealthy, or more satisfied. I do claim to have experiences in reading, working, and traveling that I enjoy passing along in exchange for your own experiences. What I have discovered about being in the…

  • eating oats

    eating oats

    Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.” There I am finishing the last bit of my tasty…