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Saturday, November 02, 2024

Laws of Nature and Principles of Being

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I suppose the votary of scientism would either say these are the same or that the latter do not exist. But supposing he is correct, by virtu...
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Friday, November 01, 2024

Being and Seeming to Be

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In a comment yesterday I mentioned an article called  Subcontracting Our Minds , describing what would happen if artificial intelligence wer...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

A Map of Mapping

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Maps are great, but some things can't be mapped. For example, reality: Or rather, what we call "reality" is always already a m...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Maps To and From Nowhere

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We left off pondering "the mystery of the twofold aspect of  Maya " -- of appearances -- "the Maya that imprisons and the on...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

The Map Is and Is Not the Territory

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"The sense of the sacred," writes Schuon, is "the innate consciousness of the presence of God," which can be felt "...
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Monday, October 28, 2024

The Sixth Sense

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Arguing over the sixth sense is like debating the fifth Beatle, in that there are many candidates from which or whom to choose: is it our ae...
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Sunday, October 27, 2024

So God Exists. Now What?

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Having proved to everyone's satisfaction that God exists, the next question is, What are we going to do about it? In other words, the ex...
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Consequences Flowing from the Mystery of Subjectivity

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That's the title of an essay by Schuon, but one could equally say "miracle of subjectivity." Because what, after all, is a mir...
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Friday, October 25, 2024

The Cosmos is an Inside Job

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Yesterday's post reflected on the idea that it takes a cosmos to raise a man. Which reminds us of the old adage that  First in intention...
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