Month: September 2019
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Total Work: My Conversation With Johannes Achill Niederhauser
Johannes Achill Niederhauser discuss the cultural, historical, and philosophical implications of Total Work. I hope you find it edifying.
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Against ‘The Key To All Mythologies’
A character in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (1871-2), Causabon, has been doing research, fruitless it turns out, for a book provisionally entitled The Key to All Mythologies. What if we too are Causabon? Here’s what I mean. Have we not been searching for the conceptual framework, all-encompassing religion, meta-metanarrative, behavioral economics tome, personal philosophy, personality tests, astrology, physics, evolutionary…
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Existential Weight, Existential Truth, Existential Betrayal, And Existential Heroism
Consider that a philosophical conversation is centered on asking and seeking to answer the most basic questions of human existence. But not just this, for it is also concerned with our lives becoming the answers we’ve come to so far. Grant as much. Then when I have a philosophical conversation, I’m looking–intuitively, that is–for a…
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‘You Married The Wrong Woman’
You married the wrong woman. And then you had children with her. For years, you’ve been going to see a marriage counselor in the hope that she could provide you two with the tools you needed to cope with the relationship. Now you’re beginning to see. The years you spent in your seated practice didn’t…
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Who I Am Is ‘Neither Perceivable Nor Conceivable’
Nisargadatta was once asked, "Who are you?" He replied: "Who I am is neither perceivable nor conceivable." Anything you perceive discard. Anything you conceive discard. What, then, is 'beyond' the mental and the physical? Not even a leafless tree at that point! — Andrew J. Taggart (@andrewjtaggart) September 24, 2019 “Who I am is neither…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 