Deus Deceptor
(audio available for paid subscribers) In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that a malevolent God or an evil demon
(audio available for paid subscribers) In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that a malevolent God or an evil demon
(audio available for paid subscribers) Whatever you hold back will hold you back. That’s the basic operating principle of the failed search for truth, which
(audio available for paid subscribers) I learned long ago, and have confirmed it many times since, that intelligent people are the dumbest people there are.
(audio available for paid subscribers) You have your own unique spiritual fingerprint, that tiny smudge on the prism of self which is the only thing
(audio available for paid subscribers) I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion,
(audio available for paid subscribers) I look at people in the standard, outward, things-of-man mode and I can’t believe they’re not screaming their heads
(audio available for paid subscribers) We like to think of the universe as a fabulously large and lavishly appointed spacetime energymatter thingamabob in which humanity
(audio available for paid subscribers) I wrote a thing a while ago about The Graduate, specifically the last few seconds when it is revealed to
(audio available for paid subscribers) If you like nonduality, you’re gonna love Advaita Vedanta, or so you might suppose, but that’s not been my experience.
(audio available for paid subscribers) Ralph Waldo Emerson makes the point that some people are materialists and some are materialists and idealists, but no one