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Friction and Synergy
Power operates by simplification. Our very ability to perceive and interact with the world involves a capacity to tune out portions of it and pick out certain parts of it as relevant. In this way we are tuned into a particular frequency of reality.
Here Be Monsters
Amid civilizational crisis, philosopher Jonathan Cobb explores how radical hope and collective action can birth a new world from the ruins of failing systems.
Harmonics and Unfolding
The ancients spoke of a “music of the spheres,” by which all of reality vibrated in a vast harmonious frequency. Rhythm and unfolding are fundamental to metaphysical and social reality.
Deliver Us From Evil
The global political landscape today reads like something straight out of Revelations. On a daily basis, we read shocking stories of the cruelties imposed by those in power. Education and healthcare are being gutted, families are being broken apart, minorities are being senselessly attacked, discrimination is being legalized, dissent criminalized, and corruption institutionalized. The very fabric of society is becoming undone before our eyes, and tyranny is rearing its ugly head.
The Global Abyss
It seemed unthinkable. A narcissistic reality show star with an authoritarian personality and a highly volatile temperament was elected to the highest office in the land on a platform of bigotry, xenophobia, and bullying. He was quite possibly the least qualified man to ever make it to the general election, let alone win the election. Yet against all expectations, here we are.
The Fall and the Eschaton
Most of us have, in some form or another, if not a philosophy of time, at least a mythos of time.