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Existence Strikes Back Part III

Modernity was the Great Rejection: The Rejection of the Tao. Post-Modernity is a Rejection of the Great Rejection: Attempts to get the Tao back into individual lives and society. The past 200 years have seen scores of popular efforts to get back in touch with the Tao, ranging from the occult to the Beats to St. Therese Lisiuex's Little Way to Zen to psychedlics. These essays pile on the examples.

The Zen of Littleness: St. Therese's Way

The Zen of Littleness: St. Therese's Way

💡This isn't the second part of a 2-part series, but readers might want to read or skim this previous piece before reading this one. Dogen, the father of the Soto School of Japanese Zen, is arguably the most significant intellectual in the Zen tradition. As a young man

This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace

This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace

And people who reject the unholy Trinity of Rationalism, Empiricism, and Progressivism.

Therese Lisieux's Little Way is Exquisitely Post-Modernist

Therese Lisieux's Little Way is Exquisitely Post-Modernist

Another postmodernist existentialist revolt against the left hemisphere and its suffocating emphasis on essence

Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids

Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids

Kerouac rejected The Great Rejection

Is the New Left the Old Occult?

Is the New Left the Old Occult?

The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?

The World of Meditation is Here

The World of Meditation is Here

Get ready for “Six-Minute Hesychasm” and “How to Get as Mentally Jacked as Jack Kornfield”

Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere

Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere

Language is the prime material of logical constructions. Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (1928) Large language models are trained on human data from the Internet. Lex Fridman, #370, Edward Frenkel (37:30) "AI Might Eliminate Us, but It Can't Replace Us." Anonymous