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Friday, April 20, 2012

Photosynthesis, Pneumosynthesis, Logosynthesis

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It is impossible to respond to a simpleton who imagines that because one is religious one is somehow "anti-science," because the p...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

From Ideological Prison to the Wide Open Frontier of Consciousness

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I never did finish the discussion of Purcell's From Big Bang to Big Mystery before veering into Hitler and the Germans , but the two ar...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Intellectual Dry Rot and Spiritual Wet Rot

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Again, the theme of Hitler and the Germans is the idea that something had gone dreadfully wrong with German culture -- both intellectually ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Radical Stupidity and the Second World of the Left

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One of the keys to understanding the left is Voegelin's concept of "second reality" or "orientation toward the unreal....
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Monday, April 16, 2012

No One is Abnormal if there's No Such Thing As Normality

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This is Bob coming to you live on tape, since I'm writing this Sunday morning in anticipation of having to leave early for work on Monda...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

What to Pack for Your Terrestrial Sojourn

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When we say "one cosmos," the emphasis is always on both words: One. Cosmos. "Cosmos" implies -- actually, it litera...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Logosphere and Idiolotry

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Purcell raises a subtle but critical point about our common Quest -- that it is not just something personal and idiosyncratic, but "un...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

On Becoming a Simple-Minded Heavyweight

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Continuing with yesterday's post, if we could ascribe a "shape" to man, it would be a kind of inward spiral. Purcell says mu...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Human Progress and the Metabolism of God

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If we are going to search for the origins of humanness -- and more to the point, the origins of you or me or I -- we're going to need to...
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Monday, April 09, 2012

Journey to the Center of the Person

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To review: there is more difference between man and ape than ape and planet, being that when cosmic evolution crosses the threshold of Man,...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Tinkling into the Void

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As I was saying yesterday before the conspiracy snatched the pencil out of my hand, "Same here. In my case, I -- " was puzzled by...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

How Did I -- Of All Things -- Get Here?

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I have exactly 35 minutes to my nameless. Maybe I can manage this time-squeeze I'm under if I just speed-type my spontaneous bobservati...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Man and His Endless Jnani Quest

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No, that's not just a strained pun. Look it up : knowledge , specifically, knowledge that is "inseparable from the total experie...
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