What most people take to be Christianity is a misunderstanding, a bad translation and semiotic displacement through the centuries that has resulted in it being relegated to an inconsequential corner of Western culture instead of it being the core of it. But as the great literary critic and Christian philosopher Owen Barfield argues, Romanticism was […]
extracts from a conversation on conspiracy theorist’s fear of abortion and satanic elites: One way they divide us is by making issues like abortion so polarized around extreme positions. When conspiracists rail against abortion or transgenderism, they are mostly railing against them as normative values. I wish they would more clearly highlight the way these
the following is extracted from discussions on social media concerning flu numbers disappearing as covid became the dominant diagnosis: My work is in the history of ideas and their sociological context. From that perspective I see how ideas emerge from systems that are seldom transparent to those working with them. Many of our models
Is Trump responsible for the culture war? Certainly his election catalyzed an already growing rift in our culture. In what sense is he responsible for this? Rather than parse responsibility I would prefer to consider counter-factual scenarios. That is, I would prefer to think about what would have happened otherwise if the event of his
When I say the media narrative about climate change or the assumptions it is based on are “false”, I don’t mean it has been falsified by some transcendental condition or fact, determined by my superior judgment; I mean the ideas don’t make much sense as one tries to connect them with other related fields, facts,
So, I will admit, I am an occultist. I believe culture is not just learned but tied to biological factors. Everything that has happened to our ancestors is with us at the cellular and etheric level. Anyone with unimpaired mental capacity can adopt or learn a cultural value, but I believe someone whose ancestors had
Conspiracy thinkers tend to display what psychologists call “hyper-agency detection”. They see agency in every structural force. But this is the mistake of all traditional thinking. Everyone tends to project a subject-predicate structure on everything they are trying to understand. It is better to see that every force is also a type of agency. It
Hello sir. Just a note of appreciation and a suggestion. You are so on the right track, and I really appreciate you popularizing a thoughtful and critical approach to etiology. But I just wanted to offer a suggestion about digging a little deeper when discussing the causes of illness. For instance when asked about herpes,
I recently was given some Oil of Gold, a product from Kymia Arts and the effect were profound. This was my feedback to my alchemist friend who let me try it: The effect was much the same as an activation to the head center from the energy of a master. About the same time window
Contributed by Antonio Grub By determining the dominant triadic structure in a chart, one can learn much about the person to whom it belongs, including what their professional life will be like. The first order of business is to determine which, if any, rulers occupy the angles (the angles being houses 1, 4, 7, and
