Perennial Philosophy

  • piercing intension

    the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading

    piercing intension
  • Article: Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty

    Very intriguing e-journal. Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/composing-your-thoughts Continue reading

  • Ageless Wisdom

    “The sacred function of hope has, in modern man, degenerated into a hideous disease called tomorrow.” –G. Gurdjieff How does the old age not already become the new age? How does the ancient not always transform into the modern? Would… Continue reading

    Ageless Wisdom
  • Entelechy – Cosmos – Event

    Seek thou after the entelecy of things if the opening of the Way is thy quest. Look not to the particular example or the general explanation of anything. To take up experience as wisdom means to be a student of… Continue reading

    Entelechy – Cosmos – Event
  • TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist

    NOTE: This piece was originally a reblog. It can no longer be found at TONGUE SANDWICH. Turns out, TS is a horrible little plagiarist. You can see an interchange between that vile man and myself below. And what an ironic… Continue reading

    TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist
  • Yen Hui’s progress

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: We read in The Inner Chapters of Yen Hui’s progress. He had given up ‘doing good and being right,’ but Confucius tells him this is ‘not quite enough.’ He goes away and returns. He had given up… Continue reading

    Yen Hui’s progress
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • Twilighting Idolatries

    Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading

    Twilighting Idolatries
  • House of God

    Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8… Continue reading

    House of God
  • Poem for Kris

    as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body… Continue reading

    Poem for Kris
  • Flowing / Swaying

    Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading

    Flowing / Swaying
  • Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading

    Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
  • 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
  • Withdrawing

    Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks  overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading

    Withdrawing
  • Boon of Dandelions 7

    Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading

    Boon of Dandelions 7
  • A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions There is only one core issue for all of psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin? For most of its history, psychology… Continue reading

    A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman
  • Daodejing 28

    #28* Knowing power, abiding in modesty; like a stream under Heaven. Like a stream under Heaven- never abandoning eternal virtue, returning at last to purity. Knowing white, abiding in black; like this order under Heaven. Like this order under Heaven-… Continue reading

    Daodejing 28