drive link academia link Signs and Scapegoats: The Viral Vectors of Science and Society Introduction: The Broad Church of Science “The struggle against death, which dominates the life-style of the rich, is translated by development agencies into a set of rules by which the poor of the earth shall be forced to conduct themselves”…“Through […]
Aurobindo spends many pages in his book Future Poetry dissing Pope and Drydan for being intellectual poets, which for him meant that their poetry mostly came from them making clever language, not any kind of spiritual inspiration. He has respect for Milton, but compared to Dante, Milton also was in large part just poeticizing a
academia pdf link drive pdf link Philosophy in the Multiverse: Volume I. Layer II: New Age or Post-Everything: Aliens, Astrology, and Alternative Cosmology “Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth
The true meta-modern masterpiece is the “The Leftovers”. It is widely hailed as one of the greatest shows of all time and it couldn’t be more explicitly metamodern. It deconstructs all meaning, both spiritual and scientific, even the way science fiction and the New Age have become fused at some level, but it then reconstructs
pdf link (academia website) pdf (google drive) Philosophy in the Multiverse Volume III “On the dumb bosom of this oblivious globe Although as unknown beings we seem to meet, Our lives are not aliens nor as strangers join, Moved to each other by a causeless force. The soul can recognise its
In “Oppenheimer”, like Malick’s “Tree of Life”, Nolan uses quick cuts that jump through the different time’s of the character’s life coupled to very dramatic music to give an abstract feel of the “spirit” of the life. He generally has less poetic “soul” (in Hilman’s sense of soul as concrete detail, spirit as abstract) than
On account of being blown away by Aronofsky’s film “The Whale”, and especially the score, which is probably my new favorite, I wanted to say a few things, and give my best score picks (below), which also happen to be some of my favorite musical pieces period. I often prefer silence when I am writing,
The key idea that makes spirituality understandable in a modern context went mostly undeveloped and unrecognized by the theosophists who first brought it out in the 19th century. The idea, perhaps an inevitable feature of any sophisticated metaphysical system fit for modern times, is that the transient, physical, or “actual” world our senses reveal to
One of the most relevant insights to today’s political climate from recent philosophy: that the process of identification in all its forms, including both the desire to identify and be identified runs counter to the creative process of true individuation. This has ramifications not only in the political sphere, but across the board in culture—most
Still not sure what to think about covid? Whatever you believe about the disease or viruses, the facts are becoming ever-more clear that the health disaster of our time is the experimental injections. Beyond all the stats below, the most general fact is that the overall death rate of 2020 was in a predictable range
