Reflections From Outside the Circle…
“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …
Tag Archives: philosophy
A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly
“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …
A Confession
“In his characteristic Quixotic way he had predicted a sale of thirty million copies of his Don Quixote; the world …
School’s In!
“The intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life.”—Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Had occasion to stroll a University …
Language and Culture’s Magic
“As far as Zen is concerned, experience is all in all. Anything not based on experience is outside Zen. The …
Down With The New Age! … (by which I mean the Old Age in disguise)
One day we’ll do away with them. Or not I suppose, but woe unto us if we don’t. We’ll finally …
A Foundational Text… For The Future
“… [W]hat are the foundational texts of Western civilization, that can bolster our belief in the almost boundless power of …
Wrong, Wrong, WRONG!
“It was Christ’s distinction between the temporal and the spiritual, adumbrated in the fifth century by St. Augustine’s City of …
Psycho-Spirituology
My wife is a psychologist. She has a ton of formal education. I don’t. In fact, I am a three …
Have You Ever Been Drunk On Stuff Like This?
“But we can conceive an inquiry turned in the same direction as art, which would take life in general for …
Omphalos Cafe 