Category: Science
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Involution and Evolution
Negative Capability is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
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Some Aspects of the Traditional Medical World View: The Demiourgos-Physician
the worldview and practice of traditional medicine studies, contemplates, and actively harmonizes each term of the “Great Triad”, curing and ensuring health, while taking the body as “departure point” for the realization of cosmological and metaphysical Truth.
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The Truth is far from Suspected
Be assured, savants of the world, it is not in disdaining the sacred books of nations that you show your knowledge, it is in explaining them. One cannot write a history without monuments and that of the world is no exception. These books are the veritable archives wherein its deeds are contained. It is necessary…
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Idiot’s Guide to the Modern World
Man can be truly free and himself only when he maintains the centre of his being on a metaphysical plane. When he detaches himself from such a plane and focuses on practical goals, on temporal achievements, and, in general, on whatever was the domain only of lower castes taken in themselves, he abdicates, disintegrates, opens…
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On discovering you’re not an Android
The idea that the self, or the conscious mind, emerges from the workings of the physical structures of the brain — with no need to invoke any supernatural spirit, essence or soul — is so fundamental to modern neuroscience that it almost goes unmentioned. Its implications are profound and deeply unsettling, prompting us to question…
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An Interpretation of Genesis
Many Christians assume a strongly “literal” stance upon the first chapter of Genesis. It should go without saying that assuming Genesis 1 to have a perspective like a newspaper is outside of the bounds of any known form of traditionalism, conceivable or not – God did not dictate this to a female stenographer, nor did…
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The Multiverse and Massachusetts
I had the opportunity this weekend to watch an interview on C-Span with the physicist Brian Greene, conducted at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The topic was the multi-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanic and the all-white audience was mostly students and retired folk. I know that tribe intimately, having grown up and attended…
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Traditional and Profane Science
By concentrating and stilling the mind, an opening is prepared for the appearance of Being, or divine inspiration. This may also appear as a creative force to an artist.