John Vervaeke and Evan Thompson: “The Blind Spot in Perception: Cognitive Science, Asian Philosophy, and Mystical Insight” Evan Thompson John Vervaeke

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Arias argues that the DNA sequence of an individual is not a construction plan for their body, but a box of tools for the true architect of life: the cell. He argues that there is nothing in the DNA molecule that explains why the heart is located on the left or why there are five…

Dialoguing with Timothy Jackson about Jung's attempt at a depth psychoanalysis of Christianity footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/on-jungs-ans…

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Linked is a recording of our first of at least two dialogues on a book--Jung's Answer to Job--that I’ll never be done reading.
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Below is my own brief summary after re-reading roughly the first half of the text:

Physical facts aren’t the…

This disgusting tweet comes from Israel's extremist National Security Minister, who was convicted by an Israeli court of racist incitement & supporting terrorism.

This is the government waging war against the entire Palestinian people. We cannot be complicit in Ben-Gvir's war.

'Why is philosophy so beautiful to you?'
'I don't know how to answer that question except by crying. Philosophy is this totally amazing form that's interested in totality, but that never attains it, because the aim is not to attain it, but to love it.'
Bruno Latour, 2022 (p.98)

In the latest piece on the Center for Process Studies blog, process theologian and chair of the Center for Process Studies board Jay McDaniel explores the connections between #metamodern Christianity and process theology.

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Evil and the Ethos of Polarity
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Evil just is the wholesale projection of evil onto other people.

NASA JPL discovers Earth is at least two planetary bodies.

“Theia” impact planet ~4.5 billion years ago and buried under Africa and the Pacific Ocean forming the moon in an epic,

'All of them [Schelling, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx] were anti-Hegelians, and, with the exception of Schelling, therefore Hegelians.'
- Karl Löwith, Heidegger: Problem and Background of Existentialism, Social Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (September 1948), p. 364

Whitehead should be understood as Goethe’s 20th century heir, as he provides the organic cosmology that justifies Goethe’s participatory scientific method.

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Some sense being made about Israel/Palestine here 👇mo-husseini.medium.com/50-completely-…

“The human being, with healthy senses, is the greatest and most exact apparatus of physics that is possible. Yet, that experiments are separated, as it were, from man, and that one seeks to know nature only according to the indications of artificial instruments, even intending to…

Metaphysics and the Matter With Things Conference Retrospective ctr4process.org/metaphysics-an…

William James' Principles of Psychology is one of the best books of all time. James has so much psychological insight, it's uncanny, and he has hardly any experimental research to draw on. If he could know all that from the armchair what work is empirical evidence even doing?