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Friday, March 06, 2015

The Economics of Interior and Exterior Poverty

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Here's one for the Glass Bead Game: what does idiom -- the unthought language of the self -- have to do with economics? This question ...
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Thursday, March 05, 2015

A Daze of Future Past

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This idea of idiom -- of certain eerily specific aesthetic objects "speaking" to us in an unfamiliarly familiar way -- seems to ha...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Idiom, Resonance, and Destiny

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It seems that the poetic mode of knowledge is very much tied in with the slack required to exercise it. Through it "we gain our first ...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Barry & Bibi, Cain & Abel, Shem & Shuan

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Not much time this morning if I'm going to lend an ear to the anti-Obama. Remember the old line, "peace will only come when Palest...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

God's Not Only Merely True, But Really Most Sincerely True

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A few more words about Poetic Knowledge and the Recovery of Education . Bottom line: the former is possible while the latter is not. You ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

The Institutionalization of Man's Depravity

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Although Truth inheres in man -- in our spiritual substance -- it seems that this substance is susceptible to corruption. That would be the...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

I Dream of Gagdad, Gagdad Dreams of Madonna

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The ? in the margin tells me that this must be a place where I depart from Schuon . Either that, or it signifies an idea which requires fur...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

God is Proof that Man is Intelligent

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I don't like to read more than one chapter a day with Schuon. Not that he's difficult per se, just that it's too rich. Dense. ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

If Atheists are Correct, Only God Knows

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Seems like most people who encounter Schuon either accept his program entirely or else reject it out of hand. There's very little middl...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

A Science of Religions?

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I'm reading this new translation of Schuon's In the Face of the Absolute . I've read all of his books, but these new editions -...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Three Shades of Magic

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In Letter III, our Vertical Pal (VP) says that "magic" may be understood as "the power of the invisible and spiritual over t...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

There's a Party in My Brain!

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We're discussing practical means of achieving vertical and horizontal integration. Importantly, these are things we should take the tim...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Pocket Guide to Magically Rewiring Your Brain and Knowing God

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Our vertical friend suggests that what we call "tradition" is the residue, so to speak, deposited by mystical experience. Thus...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Original Syntheses and the All of Man

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Now that I'm playing the Glass Bead Game between interpersonal neurobiology and Meditations on the Tarot , I see that there are links e...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

It Takes One(ness) to Know (the) One

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Well, it's President's Day, a quintessentially postmodern helliday in which the federal government compels schoolchildren to conflat...
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