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  • Hermeticism and the Anthropic Principle of Evolution « Footnotes 2 Plato

    In The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Karl Popper famously (or infamously, as far as Hegelians are concerned) attacked Hegel for his bewitching apriorism and supposed distain for empirical science, going so far as to blame his Platonically inspired “mystery… Continue reading

  • Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People

    Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People. 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 20120822

    We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming… Continue reading

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  • 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 20120816

    “Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE Continue reading

  • » Sorting Out the Apostle Paul Beyond Good and Evil

    This is a blog entry from the first person with which I ever studied philosophy, Ronnie “Doc” Hastings, Ph.D. So, what I am about to do regarding Paul and the origins of Christianity is to claim my birth right as… 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

  • Gentle smile concern unlocking

    Sacred sage, cedar, pine, & sandalwood burn atop bed of sea salt covered thick with yesterday’s ash. Perfumes caressing apartment corners, thin invocations swirl about locked door. Outside, charcoal clouds hide the summer sun– that absentee landlord still draining us… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120809

    The “righteous” see only what is before them;       the Just obtain a more transcendent vision.          Overcoming before, no regretting after.  Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120807

    afternoon downpour sidewalk steam drifting upward empty cicada Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120805

           dry horizon dusk           crimson passion births star shine                cat chasing crickets 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