Month: December 2019
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Is All Action A Shadow Of Contemplation, At Best A Longing For Contemplation?
In which I discuss Plotinus’s (and Advaita’s) critique of our entrepreneurial age. The Medium story can be read in full here. The opening section is included below. A Grand Illusion Entrepreneurs, Plotinus would have urged, are living under a grand illusion: they think that work, broadly or narrowly construed, comes before contemplation and, as a result, they’ve built their…
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Inquiring Into The Concept of Privilege And The Green Meme
I A good concept to inquire into more would be that of “privilege” or of “feeling or being privileged.” Such an inquiry would, in time, make plain to us that it functions within what Ken Wilber has called the green meme. One blog seeks to describe the sundry attributes of those inhabiting a green worldview:…
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On Deathworks And Humanism: My Letter To Peter Limberg
In my letter exchange with Peter Limberg, I explore how humanism is a producer of deathworks. The second section begins as follows: A confession: I am, have become a psychotechnologies wildman. Each day I sit down and meditate 3 times for about 3 hours. The meditations, varied in nature, are contemplations of my true nature.…
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In The Land Of Ur…
In the Land of Ur, long ago it was decreed that no couple shall give birth to a child unless they have first received a blessing from the Elders. It was thought that the Elders, being wise, would know whether the child would live a life of unspeakable torment or one of radiant splendor. If…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 