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Feelings aside, make a resolution to behave as a happier person would—someone who enjoys a good intimate relationship, close friendships, and their work. To follow that model, scholars recommend such habits and practices as taking an interest in others and engaging in acts of kindness, counting your blessings and savoring good moments, committing... See more
The Virtuous Circle of a Happy Personality
The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online
openculture.com
In a concise note at the beginning of the book, Critchley describes a fabled world “once upon a time” when “hermit-like” sufferers of an unnamed plague became painfully aware of contagion and withdrew from social life. He thankfully refrains from a ham-fisted thesis about how the Covid era was akin to the apocalyptic plagues of yore and turned us... See more
Elvia Wilk • The Varieties of Mystical Experience
💭Spirituality & Philosophy and Sublation!
This reminds me a lot of the recent “Chaos is a Ladder” entry in Not Boring’s Vertical Integrators series. The idea that disruption leads to new paradigms. This also reminds me of Hegel’s concept of sublation. Take a disruption to the status quo, emerge with a new challenger to the paradigm, merge the new with the old and establish a new status quo. This appears to be a steadfast rule applying equally to a spiritual evolution, per this article, or a techno-economic paradigm, or the entire course of history in the world
📚Books and 💭Spirituality & Philosophy
I may want to read the book that is the subject of this article eventually, sounds right up my alley. Consider following current fiction kick
Memetic vs. Antimemetics
Interesting mention of Girard
☕️Interest and
Quote from CS Lewis from Packy McCormick’s Election Day newsletter entitled, “Read More Books.”
Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger | Philosophy & Technology
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Maybe in this world of supremacy of “taste,” this is helpful to keep in mind.