The Eleatics found the Source level and were unable to find their way back. They arrived at Being, one, undivided, unchanging, and concluded that everything below it was an illusion. The soul, as individual and temporal and changing, had no place in their architecture. The…
Hegel read Kant and felt claustrophobic. The way you feel in a room when someone has locked the door and told you the view through the window is the best you’ll ever get. That the thing on the other side of the glass, reality as…
The Milesians found soul distributed through matter. Heraclitus found the soul participating in governing logos. Anaxagoras found an unmixed intelligence standing apart from everything it organizes. Each step located the animating principle at a higher level of organization, with cleaner distinctions and more structural clarity.…
For twelve years, Immanuel Kant lectured, corresponded, and went on his famous walks through Königsberg at such exact intervals that neighbors set their clocks by him. Philosophically, only silence. After reading Hume he stopped publishing. Stopped claiming to have answers. He went inside the problem…
Link to YouTube Video The first of the seven Hermetic principles is called Mentalism. All is mind. The universe is mental. The principle derives from the Corpus Hermeticum, the body of texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, Hermes the Thrice-Great. The oldest of these texts, the…
Five thousand years before Donella Meadows wrote a word about systems, a Sumerian encoded the complete structure of systems collapse and reconstruction in a myth. The myth is the Descent of Inanna. The myth is systems thinking; the same structural logic, the same sequence of…
Link to YouTube Video The Milesians asked what soul is made of. They answered with substance, water, air, the intelligent breath holding the cosmos together. And they were right about one thing, whatever soul is, it is everywhere. The world is alive. The animating principle…
Link to YouTube Video There is a question that science has been avoiding for three hundred years. The idea of the neutral observer. The idea that knowledge is something a mind acquires from outside the world it is describing. One man made it his life’s…
Imagine you’ve been building a house your whole life. Everyone you’ve ever known. Everyone who came before you. Centuries of people, passing blueprints down, adding rooms, reinforcing walls, trusting that the foundation was solid because it had held this long. And then one man, Scottish,…
What Macbeth Actually Dramatizes The traditional interpretation of Macbeth is a play about ambition gone wrong. That reading flattens the structural argument. Macbeth dramatizes what happens when a consciousness operating at Stage 7, Mastery Testing, fails all four substages in sequence, and then attempts to…