The Age of Sophia and the end of the Matrix Grid
If you told someone that everything that they know about themselves, their family, friends, and partners is a lie; that everything they know about the world is based on layers […]
Plato’s Phaedo: Ego drama is the spice of life (60e – 61c)
This article is the fifth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. […]
The Animals Who Speak
In this article, I want to talk a bit about the animals on this planet, how they help us, and how we have abandoned them, and what we need to […]
Soul Manifestation and Freedom
The silos of reason make it difficult for us to see the one in the many, the integrity of the whole, the Soul in the Machine. When it comes to […]
Tales from the Matrix: The Suffering of Master and Slave
According to the philosophy of Zen, we are too much of a slave to the conventional way of thinking, which is dualistic through and through…. Zen, however, upsets this scheme of thought and substitutes a new one in which there exists no logic, no dualistic arrangement of ideas. Daisetz Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism Series 1 (New York: Harper and […]
Alan Watts: Wu Wei
Be Someone who feels
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t. A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking. Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or […]
To conjure and summon the Black Lion
This is a difficult article to write, and I hesitated in doing so, because of the difficulty of the subject matter. I will do my best, however. What I write […]
Telepathy: not as far as you think
True human communication is, by nature, telepathic. It isn’t the words, the symbols, or the gestures that are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to connecting with others. Words […]
The Disease of the Hollow Men
We have all been programmed to believe that what we feel is “our” feelings, that our thoughts are “our” thoughts, and what we experience belongs to us alone. Fundamentally, we […]
In a Dying World to be Reborn
Most people think of themselves as an accumulation of properties of various sorts: I am beautiful. I am stupid. I am wealthy. I have this skill or that skill. I […]
they tried to kill my dog, they did
they tried to kill my dog, they did,the sadness in their face was a frown,pulled down by pitchforks and pain the devil works at a distance,as the story goes, andthe […]
Hell to Paradise: Collapsing Timelines and the Awakening of the Human Spirit
THROUGH ME THE WAY INTO THE SUFFERING CITY,THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE ETERNAL PAIN,THROUGH ME THE WAY THAT RUNS AMONG THE LOST. JUSTICE URGED ON MY HIGH ARTIFICER;MY MAKER […]
Oracular Intelligence 