The Backward Mentality to Finding Victory - Mockingbird

It Doesn't Always Pay to Be a Thinker

The Final Christian Generation? - Mockingbird

What we can learn from the century that saw the sun set on the “final” pagan generation

The Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is written as guide from a teacher to a student, with the message that God cannot be understood via reason or intellect, but only through love: “By love may He be gotten and holden, but never through thought.” To achieve this goal, the text recommends cultivation of two mental states: “The cloud of forgetting”, and “the cloud of unknowing”.

Meaning in Life as Being Part of Cosmic Evolution

Walt Whitman Below is an excerpt of comments from an astute reader of my  book, The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives: The scope of the universe …

On “getting” poetry - The New Criterion

On deriving pleasure from poetry.

The Physics and Metaphysics of Social Powers: Bridging Cognitive Processing and Social Dynamics, a New Perspective on Power through Active Inference

What Kind of Bird Can't Fly by Dorsey Nunn | East Bay Booksellers

A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights."Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible—from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and society—should make time to read Dorsey Nunn's extraordinary memoir.

Jace

Design and writing by Jace.

The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace | Aeon Essays

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace

Things Hidden Since the Foundations of the World by René Girard | Notes & Summary

“I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.” (Matthew 13:35)

The Tyranny of Stuctureless

The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman

Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977 : Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Esotericism in One Piece: Navigating Magic, Symbolism and Spirituality

Introduction Idea Presentation

MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more

This one took a bit to write. The first piece is long (1,600+ words), and intense. But it needed to be said. I'll be interested to hear what you think. You...