“To be Relative or not to be Relative” When I think about all the suffering in the world, my heart tends feel sad. From the unfortunate starving people in third world countries to the very friends and family I associate with every day, there is an abundance of pain and suffering. This feeling of empathy with them […]
I became interested in Anthropology through the works of Carlos Castaneda and Terence McKenna, and other similar authors that mainstream anthropologists would never claim as their own. It was my interest in what is usually called shamanism or sorcery that eventually lead me to majoring in Anthropology and thinking rationally about the occult. Now after
At the end of the day, before I lose consciousness for the night, I often get trapped in worries about the future, or nostalgic thoughts about my life and my past. Sometimes I end up dismissing all of them as my ego out of control. “I am”, I tell myself in an attempt to bring me back
All animals have a deeply rooted emotional drive; a natural inclination for expressing needs for certain fundamental biological activities. While most animals act purely out of response to biological and emotional stimuli, human behavior is much more complex. Because humans are dependent on coordinated action that is not based on biological principles, our behavior is always somewhat
There is a distinction that we as individuals make between what actually happens and what is possible. What actually happens has existence only in the relative experience of an observer, and is inherently a symbol for what is possible. What I experience is intrinsically my experience, in that it has meaning specific to my point of view
The debate over personal identity has many manifestations underlying all forms of rational thought. Before one can even think about the world at large, it would seem that consideration should be taken for the point of view of the analyzer. Thoughts, words, and the actions that stem from them, are by their nature communication between relative points
Linguistic symbols are used to refer to objects in the external world and objects of abstract knowledge. In religious language symbols are sometimes used to bridge the two worlds together. In this case, the symbols refer to objects in the world that have a variety of interconnected abstract ideas that the object represents. Water symbolism is especially significant
Symbol and Metaphor as Divine TrajectoryMystical writing is an obscure and often esoteric subject that tends to evade intellectual scrutiny. Whether in be poetry or prose, the ideas contained are claimed to be pointers towards linguistically inexpressible truths. For this reason, the quality, relative truthfulness, and usefulness of any mystical writing seems somewhat beyond the bounds of
this was extracted from a conversation following a previous post exploring the philosophy and science of covid politics: For Henri Bergson, intuition is our animal instinct informed by our analytic intelligence. Much like we have been saying, Bergson critiques the fetishizing of our analytic side, and he would agree that we cannot be intuitive without
Basically no. Unfortunately, its bourgeois liberals–with their tolerance for everyone of any appearance, just so long as you think and act like them–that have all the money in society, so most business have to cater to their hypocrisy if they want to stay in business. Luckily this mask things is exposing their hypocrisy more clearly
