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Karl Jaspers

  • Liminality… and Hope – Patricia Damery

    Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn’t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering… 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

  • 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

  • Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract

    For that beautiful youth Health in your hands… Thanksgiving! For me let there be An intercession! Another deep night Called to this vigil Not by a soul on fire With the compulsion To peer into Abyss But awake, alert Beneath the harsh… Continue reading

    Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract

  • For Jared

    What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading

    For Jared

  • The Truth and the True

    Jaspers and Heidegger appeal to me because I am a mystic who has had mystical experiences: spoken in Tongues, hung over the Abyss, fallen into ecstasy of Nothing, felt the Abiding Presence of the Other, heard the rushing Silence. Each… Continue reading

    The Truth and the True

  • Revisiting the Loving Struggle

    Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.” Continue reading

    Revisiting the Loving Struggle

  • Some More on Loving Struggle

    After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I sat down with my… Continue reading

    Some More on Loving Struggle

  • Textimony 20140309

    “To carry communication in all its possibilities closer to reality is the daily labor of philosophy.” Karl Jaspers The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (175) Continue reading

    Textimony 20140309

  • Dawning Jedi

    This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human… Continue reading

    Dawning Jedi

  • Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR

    As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very… Continue reading

    Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR

  • Art and Inner Spaces

    “Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s… Continue reading

    Art and Inner Spaces

  • Willing Embrace

    In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of… Continue reading

    Willing Embrace

  • The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown

    …The American political, cultural, and economic landscape is inhabited by the renewed return of authoritarianism evident in the ideologies of religious and secular certainty that legitimate the reign of economic Darwinism, the unchecked power of capital, the culture of fear… Continue reading

    The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown

  • ▶ Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | YouTube

    Louis C.K. is fast becoming the go-to philosophic comic. Why? Well, it’s a melancholy tale filled with despair and hope and a Bruce Springsteen song.   Continue reading

    ▶ Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | YouTube

  • Madness and (American) Civilization

    In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects… Continue reading

    Madness and (American) Civilization

  • Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com… Continue reading

    Irrationality: Factual Fictions

  • Boon of Dandelions 9

    Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight… Continue reading

    Boon of Dandelions 9