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Friday, June 29, 2018

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Lie

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Continuing with yesterday's post, it's not just a matter of positing vertical reality, nor even interacting with it in an outward wa...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

The Real Intersectionality (of Vertical and Horizontal)

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What does the subject under discussion -- prerogatives of the human state -- have to do with the news of the day? In a way, we are always a...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

The Secret of Existence is Just Under the...

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Continuing with our discussion of the Prerogatives of the Human State , I should say first of all that I am decades past the point of wonder...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

The Infrahuman Left

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The first essay in Schuon's The Play of Masks , Prerogatives of the Human State , is one of his most dense and concentrated, essentially...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

The How and the Why of this Haunted Cosmos

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I want to briefly follow up on the idea that something analogous to Multiple Personality Disorder "happens at a universal level" a...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

The Crazy Must Be Gods

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Apropos of our recent musings, Instapundit links to a piece at Scientistic American called Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life...
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Friday, June 15, 2018

Father, Son, and the Holy Post

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This post is all over the place. Welcome to my mind! As often happens with the blog, the subject under discussion is provoking an acute cas...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

The Lazy Man's Way to God

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Speaking of Little Big Self, a coincidence -- in the Leonard Cohen bio , his Zen teacher, Roshi, summarizes the doctrine in six words: ...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Little Big Self

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The subject of this post strikes me as absolutely fundamental, bound to appear or reappear in some fashion, whether explicitly or implicitly...
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Friday, June 08, 2018

Deus-continuity Amidst Discontinuity

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Yesterday's post didn't quite achieve Total Clarity on the subject of radiance and reverberation, no doubt because I'm not quite...
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Thursday, June 07, 2018

An Intense Beam of Darkness, AKA This Post

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Yesterday's post ended before it was about to get underway, or at least left alert readers in a quandary as to what is so special about ...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Re-verberations in the Logosphere

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I'm always struck by how Schuon can use such ordinary words to disclose the most profound profundities: no mathematical equations, no s...
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Monday, June 04, 2018

The Deadly Consequences of Relativism

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In the previous post we discussed form and substance. Knowledge is a form, and either it is a form of the substance or just a form of appea...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Appearance and Reality, Mother and Father

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The marriage of appearance and reality is always present in the exercise of human intelligence, irrespective of the discipline. Not only is...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Why a World?

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The universe is important if it is appearance, and insignificant if it is reality. --Dávila This seems important, which is to say, fundame...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Something Stupid This Way Comes

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In the previous post we explained why it is that evil is simultaneously necessary and forbidden, rooted in the ontological distance between ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

God Within Us, In Us, & Beyond Us

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Continuing with the metaphysical basis of our "fallen" condition, Schuon describes in The Question of Theodicies how ambiguities ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Exact Sciences vs. a Science of the Inexact

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Men are divided into two camps: those who believe in original sin and those who are idiots. --Dávila Chesterton remarked that "The on...
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