Metaphysics

Does enjoying Plato’s highest good require we leave our personalities behind? — A number of years ago, back when I was still teaching at Fayetteville State University, a colleague at Christopher Newport University invited and hosted me in his Plato class, where I delivered a guest lecture. You can watch the full session here. There was significant contribution made by his…

Thought and perception not only transcend intersections of time — but may even alter them — Which reality are you living from right now? A unidimensional model of existence no longer covers the bases of time and physicality as we understand them in the 21st century. What’s more, we possess concrete, replicable data suggesting the time-mutability of the psyche itself. Hence, it stands to reason that…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant: Exploring His Unique Ideas and Concepts — The work of Immanuel Kant has had a profound impact on modern philosophy. Though he lived nearly two centuries before the birth of modern psychology, his ideas on the subject have been studied by psychologists and therapists ever since. “Anarchy is law and freedom without force. Despotism is law and force…

Science killed religion, overthrowing the command structure of top-down authority, but replaced itself as the authority. Will UFOs overthrow the church of science and make the individual whole and sovereign, again? — By giving the individual the tools of spirituality, these cease to need gurus. Spirituality then became a personal journey and relationship to all that is. Science, like spirituality, gave people the tools to do their own research and assessments of their world, which means most people no longer need the…

Metaphysical idealism asserts that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental in nature. Essentially, at the foundation of reality, we find purely transpersonal processes or, more technically, aperspectival and unconditioned consciousness. …

Pyrrhonism is an ancient Greek philosophy founded by Pyrrho of Elis in the 4th century BCE. Pyrrho taught that emotional disturbances are caused by false beliefs, and so he emphasised the importance of suspending judgment about non-evident matters. Pyrrho travelled with Alexander the Great’s army to India, where he mixed…

How Gillian defeated materialism, kind of — I was 17, and happened to be sitting next to that girl — Gillian or something — who was generally considered by the rest of the class to be a bit weird. “I mean just look at bees,” she said to me. This was a conversation opener, apropos of nothing. We…

When you put yourself in the position of an innocent, you’ll see that you have the innate ability to lead. Much like an assertive politician, your ideas have the ability to inspire others to take action. …

I logged into one of the final events of a three-week online coaching program. It was a free course about getting into alignment with your Higher Lightworker Business Owner, full of LoA buzzwords and fuzzy-feeling bombing and all the usual groundwork laying for turning an audience into a community into…