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A hologram, the basis for Henri Bergson's vision of reality

Welcome to the Holofield: Rethinking Time & Consciousness

Published by Stephen Robbins

When using the term, metaphysical, we’re not talking here about Madame Blavatsky, root races, etheric beings, hierarchies of archons. We are talking about a fundamental framework of thought...

February 1, 2020
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Heresies, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science

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A hologram, the basis for Henri Bergson's vision of reality

Welcome to the Holofield: Rethinking Time & Consciousness

Published by Stephen Robbins

When using the term, metaphysical, we’re not talking here about Madame Blavatsky, root races, etheric beings, hierarchies of archons. We are talking about a fundamental framework of thought...

February 1, 2020
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Heresies, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science
The New Cerebramancy encompasses all the branches of Postmodernism, including the New Atheism, Social Justice, Woke Culture, Social Constructionism, and Neo-Marxism

All the Heart Wants Is Its Chance

Published by Asa Boxer

A Cerebramantic Age is upon us, an age characterized by mantic cerebralism—an inconsistent and incoherent mindset. . .

February 1, 2020
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Art, Heresies, Literary Essay, Non-Fiction, Occult, Philosophy, Prose, Science, Spirituality
John Tenniel's original (1865) illustration for Chapter IX of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Person-Plus or Person-Solo

Published by David Solway

This is the staple Western conception of the self, understood, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz in Local Knowledge, as “a bounded, unique, more or less integrated ....

February 1, 2020
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Education, Heresies
Oil refineries fuel the growth economy

Kicking the Growth Economy

Published by Graeme Maxton

What is the purpose of each human life? Thanks to the ideas of a group of financially incentivised academics. . .we now have the answer. . .

February 1, 2020
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Economics, Heresies
One might compare consciousness to a vast, potentially infinite cathedral filled with light, shadows and reflections of the wider reality enveloping it

The Evolution of Consciousness

Published by Gary Lachman

One of the themes I write about in many of my books is the evolution of consciousness. . .

February 1, 2020
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Heresies, Metaphysics, Occult, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality
Cannabis has always been a shamanic, ritualistic inducer meant to open one’s mind and to be consulted at crossroads and vulnerable moments in one’s life

Pothead

Published by Anonymous

My tortured relationship with weed leads me down a sceptical blind alley regarding legalization. On the one hand, like psilocybin and LSD, its psychedelic effects can occasion experiences of...

February 1, 2020
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Literary Essay, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Prose
A sign for one of the 'Hipster Free Zones' in Berlin's underground

Art and Urban Decadence

Published by Beatriz Garcia

The story of art and decadence is a never-ending one because economies succeed and fail, they go in cycles, and spaces are never permanently fit for purpose; meanwhile the...

February 1, 2020
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Art, Economics, Heresies, Non-Fiction, Photo Essay, Prose, Urban Design

Inferno Canto I Translated by Marc di Saverio

Published by Marc di Saverio

A remarkable translation by di Saverio of Canto I from Dante's Inferno prepares the reader for when Crito meets Dante. . .

February 1, 2020
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Poetry
Diving Man

Three Poems by Michael Harris

Published by Michael Harris

The salmon is still in the noiseless black; she was quick-silvered star to the ship whose hull has sunk below the bottom of the lake.

February 1, 2020
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Poetry
Slaughtered Pig by Joachim Beuckelaer

Two Poems by Eric Ormsby

Published by Eric Ormsby

The spotted hogs trot past to the abattoir. Their flanks are mired with fear-dung, and they squeal.

February 1, 2020
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Poetry
Belle & Sebastian Image

Two Poems by Talya Rubin

Published by Talya Rubin

Belle and Sebastian are coming to town...

February 1, 2020
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Poetry

Three Poems by David Solway

Published by David Solway

Three Poems by David Solway

February 1, 2020
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Poetry

The Intellectual Republic

Published by William James

If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes, we might feel ourselves disloyal to such a perfect organ of knowledge in not trusting to it exclusively. ....

February 1, 2020
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Heresies, Metaphysics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality

Happy, then, if a few unrighteous ones contribute an initiative which sets things moving again!

William James

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A hologram, the basis for Henri Bergson's vision of reality
Heresies, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science

Welcome to the Holofield: Rethinking Time & Consciousness

When using the term, metaphysical, we’re not talking here about Madame Blavatsky, root races, etheric beings, hierarchies of archons. We are talking about a fundamental framework of thought...

February 1, 2020
comments 0
The New Cerebramancy encompasses all the branches of Postmodernism, including the New Atheism, Social Justice, Woke Culture, Social Constructionism, and Neo-Marxism
Art, Heresies, Literary Essay, Non-Fiction, Occult, Philosophy, Prose, Science, Spirituality

All the Heart Wants Is Its Chance

A Cerebramantic Age is upon us, an age characterized by mantic cerebralism—an inconsistent and incoherent mindset. . .

February 1, 2020
comments 0
John Tenniel's original (1865) illustration for Chapter IX of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Education, Heresies

Person-Plus or Person-Solo

This is the staple Western conception of the self, understood, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz in Local Knowledge, as “a bounded, unique, more or less integrated ....

February 1, 2020
comments 0

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A hologram, the basis for Henri Bergson's vision of reality
February 1, 2020

Welcome to the Holofield: Rethinking Time &...

The New Cerebramancy encompasses all the branches of Postmodernism, including the New Atheism, Social Justice, Woke Culture, Social Constructionism, and Neo-Marxism
February 1, 2020

All the Heart Wants Is Its Chance

John Tenniel's original (1865) illustration for Chapter IX of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
February 1, 2020

Person-Plus or Person-Solo

Oil refineries fuel the growth economy
February 1, 2020

Kicking the Growth Economy

One might compare consciousness to a vast, potentially infinite cathedral filled with light, shadows and reflections of the wider reality enveloping it
February 1, 2020

The Evolution of Consciousness

Cannabis has always been a shamanic, ritualistic inducer meant to open one’s mind and to be consulted at crossroads and vulnerable moments in one’s life
February 1, 2020

Pothead

A sign for one of the 'Hipster Free Zones' in Berlin's underground
February 1, 2020

Art and Urban Decadence

February 1, 2020

Inferno Canto I Translated by Marc di Saverio

Diving Man
February 1, 2020

Three Poems by Michael Harris

Slaughtered Pig by Joachim Beuckelaer
February 1, 2020

Two Poems by Eric Ormsby

Belle & Sebastian Image
February 1, 2020

Two Poems by Talya Rubin

February 1, 2020

Three Poems by David Solway

February 1, 2020

The Intellectual Republic

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