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Traditional Wisdom

  • (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

  • No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills… Continue reading

    No Room for Improvements

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!

    Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading

  • Killing the Liberal Arts… A Non-Conservation

    The importance of the humanities in educating citizens is why we have undoubtedly seen the consequences of the decline in of the liberal arts nowhere more than in the quality of the public debate. The disappearance of the liberal arts… Continue reading

  • The Gnostic Worldview

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  • Quora answer: What is the value of accepting paradoxes in life? « thinknet

    I thought I would clarify the nature of paradox in relation to superrationality. Paradox is mixture, it is where there is mixture between contradictory opposites. However, superrationality is when you have two things at the same time but they do… Continue reading

  • Shimer College and the Future: Text of David Shiner’s Euthyphro lecture

    Every Shimer student in the Weekday program reads Plato’s Euthyphro as their first assignment in preparation for Orientation.  This is appropriate, because Platonic dialogues such as the Euthyphro are typical of the sorts of texts that work particularly well in… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120821

    “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120811

    If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. 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

  • Textifying to the Encompassing Good

    Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began 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