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Category Archives: Essay
A Great Wave
At the end of a ride on a great wave we find ourselves gasping and spitting,…
An Event Horizon
Most days follow on from the day before and are followed by another…
Hypnotized by Desire
If the meditator is seeking an end, a result, he will hypnotize himself by…
On Faith
The question of bad faith begs us to consider, What is good faith? Both…
How do we distinguish integration from delusion?
Delusion is completely convincing. This point can be difficult to…
Interdependence
How do we settle-down into coherence?
Morphic Fields and the Edifice of Thought
Originally posted on The Chrysalis:
Recently, Antonio Dias employed a phrase that I quite like: “the Edifice of Thought”. The painstakingly constructed modern edifice of thought now rests upon some pretty wobbly foundations — the metaphysical assumptions of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm that have now become very dubious and uncertain. Chief among these dubious assumptions is…
The Amazon Is Burning
In case you haven’t been paying attention… As I write this the Amazon…
The Edifice of Thought*
Thought shapes thinking. We cannot think differently unless we become…
Breathless
We are infatuated with the idea of The Future™. Breathlessly running…
Notes on Place
Everything comes back to the question of place.
In a flood it’s impossible to swim until the water reaches your butt!
The title is a paraphrase of a native Brazilian proverb…
The State of the Self
Cultures create, nourish, and defend modes of identity. An individual’s…
The question of Bad Faith
…there is no form of communication available that has not been buried…
Looking back at looking back, What Drives Me,
Growing up in a predicament we get past incredulity or we take refuge in…
Queequeg’s Coffin
I was fifteen when I first read Moby Dick in a 48 hour long marathon…
Confusion is part of the message
Let’s be clear. Confusion is part of the message.
Desperado Philosophy: An Order So Unwieldy
More than enough time for another cocktail!
Pointing out futility
“T…what I like about you… you are always able to show me the futility…