Tag Archives: awareness

Article 73: Truth as Value Adding

Values evoke a response in us and call us to some end. They are what give meaning to life: such things as beauty, goodness, truth – and purpose. Science can tell us what their brain correlates may be, but cannot help us understand their nature. It can, though, help us misunderstand them. ….

Article 70: The Invisible Gorilla

So one important point here is that much of what materialist scientists say about the nature of reality is based on a concept-derived fallacy that discounts no end of dynamic processes which they fail to treat as relevant because they don’t fit into their ‘only the physical is real and the physical has no mind’ view.

Article 69 Of Brains & Location

1. For 10-15 seconds focus only on the black dot below. Put 100% of your attention on it. (Read #2 first)
2. For the next 10-15 seconds keep that attention on the black dot but also now include awareness of the space around, both inner mental awareness and outer physical space.

Article 68 Robbie Robertson RIP

Listening to the songs and watching the documentaries yesterday I tried to recall my experience of that era and also understand why the music felt so seminal, so powerful, so rich, so dangerous, so quintessential. I know it to be so, I felt it at the time, we all did, but now I cannot for the life of me bring it back – it just doesn’t come.

Article 67 The King’s Two Bodies

In the age of monarchy, kings justified their right to rule through some form of the argument that they were simply born to do so. A king was not just an ordinary human, but in some sense a vessel for a divine principle of sorts. As such, there exists cases in medieval jurisprudence where the legal issue at stake was whether the king in his human form or his metaphysical form had signed a particular contract.

Article 66: Tethered to Form

Now – and more importantly – look at what happens to our minds when using terms like yin and yang. Our minds immediately want to make them into something definite, tangible, measurable even though in our mountain example they are changing from moment to moment and in any case aren’t really measurable things at all, rather relationships.

Sacredness: Notes on the 2023 Coronation

Faced with the pope’s refusal to negotiate, Frederick called on all the princes of Europe to a general revolt against the papacy, in a manifesto that must have smelled of the most dangerous heresy to the pope:

God is our witness that our intention has always been to force churchmen to follow in the footsteps of the Primitive Church, to live an apostolic life, and to be humble like Jesus Christ…