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From the Archives (January 2021)
Eric Scheske
Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it.
Are You Engaged in the Act of Existence? Then You’re a Man of the Tao
Introducing "The Reality Spectrum"
Tao: The Transcendental Modem
For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that.
How to Break on Through to the Other Side
The Doors released their first single in 1967: “Break on Through (to the Other Side),” a tribute of sorts to Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.
Huxley had been trying to break on through to the other side for years. He put together a splendid book in the 1940s
How to Start Detaching the Door of Reality from Its Hinges
You Need to Deal with the Survival Paradox
The man who invented the calculator, you might imagine, was pretty freakin’ smart.
But he apparently didn’t understand some really freakin’ fundamental things. He one time wrote:
“I know not what is good or bad in anything. I know not which
Neil Young Never Hated the Man(son)
The song Neil Young wrote about the infamous murderer Charles Manson
Neil Young and Charles Manson have a bizarrely intertwined history. The two men
once shared a jam session at a time when Manson was an up and coming talent, one
that had started to make waves in California and
The Left Hemisphere is a Paradox Moron
It is very possible that "paradoxes are actually fundamental to reality. . . . We exist in a world, of not forms, but of paradoxes." Lex Fridman (Edward Frenkel, #370), 1:10:25
We Golf. Therefore, the Tao Is.
We intuit the Tao. That’s why our active hobbies engage us.
How to Escape the Selfishness Paradox
Hint: Stop Thinking About It
The word “selfish” trended strongly over the past few years.
People who wouldn’t lock down: selfish. People who wouldn’t get the vaccine: selfish. People who rail against economic inequality: selfish (manifested in envy).
The problem with alleging selfishness, though, is that every human