Paving the way for a metaphysical Revolution
Looking at the work of Nicholas Hagger
Looking back over his prolific career, which includes more than sixty books, Nicholas Hagger, the octogenarian English philosopher-poet and cultural historian, sees a vital thread running through all his prose works: bringing his philosophy of Universalism to birth and ‘parenting it towards adulthood.’
Challenging modern philosophy, physicalism, and the secular, Universalism restates the unity of the universe and informs the panoply of Hagger’s literary, mystical, religious, philosophical, historical, cultural, and geopolitical writings, establishing him as a trailblazer in the ‘new metaphysics.’
In a nutshell, Universalism is a philosophy and worldview of the fundamental unity of the universe and humankind. It is a movement to reconfigure all academic disciplines as interconnected wholes and establish a democratic world state.
Broadly, I see it as underwritten by existential or ontological mysticism, the discoveries of quantum science, which challenge consensus reality, and the disclosures of depth psychology regarding the nature of consciousness and the human psyche.
Hagger has seen the Light as the common essence of all religions and presented many mystics’ illuminations. He has charted the history…
