Maybe I’m just a nerd, but I love computer metaphors. Maybe the real reason these metaphors are usually so juicy though is because computers are actually a metaphor for us, and how we work. After all, we did invent them, so there must be something in them that reflects back on us. This little graphic [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
The Filter of Belief
July 31, 2005 – 1:34 pm
One of my all-time greatest “pet peeves” with regards to the New Age movement and pop spirituality is this tenacious teaching that “Belief creates reality.” For some reason, this idea just won’t die, no matter how easy it is to disprove. And it’s so bloody easy to show that it’s wrong that I’m not even [...]
Socrates The Trickster
July 31, 2005 – 1:15 pm
I might have been a bit premature in my earlier assumptions that the main paths of philosophy in the West are Plato and Aristotle. There is another: Socrates. But I think a lot of people don’t really recognize what his true function is. To me, he seems to play the role formerly reserved to trickster [...]
Form I & Form II
July 30, 2005 – 9:10 pm
I want to combine the last few things I’ve been talking about into one semi-coherent whole. In reverse chronological order they are: (A) the formula of spiritual advancement; (B) the ongoing cultural debate between Aristotle &. Plato; (C) and that weird stuff about Jesus, Lucifer and Ahriman. And to talk about these correlations, I’m going [...]
The Essential Human Brand
July 30, 2005 – 7:29 pm
I’ve been thinking a lot about this basic formula of spiritual experience that I devised a few days ago:
The observation of limitation
The intuitive knowledge of potential beyond limitation
The experience of transcending limitation into potential
I distilled down from what I think is the essence of Gnosticism (although others disagree). And I just spotted an article by [...]
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The Slave Race
July 30, 2005 – 6:05 pm
Jeff Wells has a great personal anecdote in his latest piece about his relationship with a bully as a kid:
One week, he got it in his head that I was his “slave.” To win my freedom, he said, I needed to beat him in a race. One contest a day was held at recess to [...]
