Agreement is one of the most powerful forces Known. In the legend of the Red Sea we see the multitude focused on Moses ability to free them. We're lead to question the relationship between Moses and the multitude. In their absence would the Sea have parted? Or was it...
We see through material manifestation that what’s true on the macrocosm is true on the microcosm. For example, the model for an atom is correlated to the map we have of the universe. Analogues to that, we have access to modern technology and mobility; but most would...
Dialectical materialism is a term which denotes change over time. Some believe that the term dialectic refers back to dialect, dialogue, hence conversation. The conversation which led to the constitution or the United States was reportedly 15 years. Wilhelm Hegel, an...
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At some point in March, 2004, I was on my way to the shop to go to work. The radio was on, doing channel surfing, and came across a contest. The nature of the contest was not clear, just heard “call now to play.” It was not my custom to be so spontaneous; but I dialed...
Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist from the Twentieth Century, after rejecting Freud’s theories, went on to create his own. He suggests we are all unconsciously connected (connected at the level of the unconscious). This has broad based implications. If through our...
Quantum physics tells us that ‘nothing’ is the ground state for everything. Everything that shows up on the phenomenal plane springs from nothing. Juxtapositionally, everything created can ultimately return to the ground state. If, (when we’re in the middle of making...
Freud created the distinction of the ego; our character and personality are reflections of it. But what if being defined by the ego means our expectations limit our possibility? Its’ true. . . thought is an energy with the power to create, the thoughts that we...
Growing up within a given paradigm, it’s difficult to imagine how it might have been in others, just like the DNA we inherit; we’re privy to; or subject to, initial conditions. In Ancient Greece Pythagoras speculated that the light that lit the world came through our...
What is the relationship between stasis, supplication, change and chaos? A static system, discontent with its position, turns to an outside source of power in order to create change. Maintaining the position, “it should be like this,” uses the power of the animus to...
Philosophy, psychology foundationally represents a code of ethics, providing the basis from which to act or react. Sometimes the delivery system of a philosophy can be subtly administered, as in imprinting. Children reflecting parental values and methods by imitating...
In terms of philosophers, Socrates, a Greek philosopher who lived in the 4th Century BC lived and died by his Principals. He was arrested and condemned to death; his crime was to get people to think outside the box. His method was one of asking questions, purposely...
Science told us in the seventies that if we could harness the energy output of a single brain, we could light up the Empire State Building. In the eighties they discovered through double blind studies, conjunct with the ‘Super Collider Project’ that the observer...
College English in California found us studying the classic Underground Man. It is a psychological piece of writing, devoid of punctuation and other grammatical devices. The story is about a man complaining about his liver. In reality, the liver filters out the body's...
World Transformation seen through the myopic lense of ethnocentricity indicates a general rise in frustration as our incomes become restratified and our infrastructure crumbles. To view world transformation through this perspective is frustrating to say the least....
Born into a particular paradigm, or world model makes it difficult to imagine how it might have been to be born into other historic periods; or how our collective thinking changed over time. It’s equally difficult to contemplate the sense of pressure a given paradigm...
Reality is a two edged sword. As an embodied spirit living in the phenomenal plane, amongst given circumstances, it’s difficult not to grouse about political decisions which have lowered our standard of living by exporting jobs from the U.S. Outsourcing and Free Trade...
The term philosophy comes from the Greek ‘Sophia’ meaning the love of wisdom or knowledge. When I think of philosophy, I am referring to the relationship between things. What is the connection between my actions and the reason behind them? What is the relationship...