The Almighty Ohm

In a scholarly discussion about Gnosticism... They allow a question that shows the query itself as dishonest and their own inability to be intellectually honest, or to apply the lessons they claim to understand. Is this cowardice or ignorance? **Tran*gender debate in biblical scholarship? Fruitless discussion because we are unwilling to discuss or we have convictions: worse than lies?

I discuss knowledge and insight gained by risking your confidence with contrarian opinions. Why we read, why we discuss, why we should disagree... Wisdom is knowing how much you have yet to understand and learn.

Cope with hope, or cope without scope. Are the theologians and the philosophy of atheism harming our experience and the discussion?

I share my journey to heal a belief in disability and a disconnect from learning...

How do we heal damage while making room for all? WEB DuBois and Goethe share this opinion. Universal dialectic.

I discuss a recent interview with Andrew Doyle and Peter Boghossian. Ideology as religion? Comparing the Heart Sutra of Buddhism and Matthew 14: Jesus and Peter walk on water... Gate gate indeed... Allegory or Reality? Or is there a middle path?

Trust when all doubt you ... Telos or mythos... It is the stories we tell ourselves. That we believe and are of benefit... Sometimes it is the stories that may not be true that we must trust in the most...

***low 🎙️ volume only till 40 seconds in** Twenty minutes on one word from James Joyce's Ulysses. Why we should read and Listen to this seminal work. Why it matters. Why we matter. Why it, you, us, should matter.....

How do we carry our burden, why do we see life as a do or don't, live or die... The one great question of philosophy is why do we not live our lives ... Amor fati. Love your fate, trust your experience.

Strong language and subject matter that will disturb most. Ritual over truth, belief before proof, but trust must come first.

Apathy in society and politics.

Nietzsche's Eternal Return or amor fati. Psychology for our now. How do we navigate suffering or absurdity? Acceptance, radical empiricism informed by MetaModern aesthetics. Free energy to Friston. Cittamatra. Yogacara. Evaluation. Judgement. Pistis: trust/faith. Sraddha: devotion, confidence, and commitment.

What is the nature of self and reality. Shared in poetic(ha) form. The phenomenology of self in Sanskrit and English. What and who we are is a we and an us. Not a you and me, or an I and it. We, thou and I.

I share insights from a course on the quintessence of Trika Saivism. How it informs, or more appropriately how it shares the same lessons, the very lessons we all are Suffering to practice and find.

I share some weird aspects of Canada, Canadian "bilingualism" , education, and culture. With hopes it might entertain and inform, we ourselves may learn from history.

Hl Menken, Harold Bloom, Fredrick Nietzsche and value, meaning, creation. Learning and living. Truth vs guidance. MetaModernism.

I discuss some issues with ACT, CBT, MBCT, ET AL... A recent course on audible shows that the therapy has lost even more sufficiency in the last decades. **@14mins the kitchen sink draining. Not what it sounded like.

I discuss some thoughts, on a walk.

Some thoughts while on a walk.

Or is it when we accept our burden and say yes to life and all it's vacissitudes. I share a lost episode of the podcast. Timely as I listen to Albert Camus and the myth of Sisyphus. We tend to not see the value of an object until it is lost, the old saying. Or do we need that shove of suffering or strife to make that leap of faith, not hope, but to embrace our fate as ordered. Karl Friston's free...

I share my class from the weekend, and some insights, observations, and a couple poems of my own. Phenomenology of Meaning.

I discuss a book about Nietzsche called "Simply Nietzsche" and how the meaning of the ubermench is lost in translations. To go thru, over, and under... A bridge to the potential.. * In the final thought I was referring to the often misunderstood and rare, but essential and sufficient, idea of 'agency' and free will. Identity as a functional narrative. **Edwin Muir was the Scottish poet I mentioned...

I read Nietzsche's Zarathustra, the afterworldsmen. Rj Hollingdale translation. I read in English and share some insights from decades of learning.

I share how I found and why I love this great classic. With a couple readings from the book and ramblings from me for measure..

I use the recent hoopla about the Dalai Lama to learn a lesson. Never look too close at your heroes, but lead with logic and a dose of doubt. Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear is an old adage... Is it believe nothing until you verify. Scire(sciō) in Latin: to come to understand. Knowledge. Wisdom. Philo Sophia. **12/04/2023