Sublation!
For the deepest passion of the Western mind has been to reunite with the ground of its being. The driving impulse of the West's masculine consciousness has been its dialectical quest not only to realize itself, to forge its own autonomy, but also, finally, to recover its connection with the whole, to come to terms with the great feminine principle ... See more
We start out knowing nothing on the left, learn a lot from books and move to the middle, and then learn enough from experience, if we ’re lucky, to end up on the right.
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist ... See more
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist ... See more
Packy McCormick • The Return of Magic
Wisdom does not arise from clinging to one side or rejecting the other but from transcending their apparent opposition to uncover harmony. It
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
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 a... See more
Elvia Wilk • The Varieties of Mystical Experience
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
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