This page categorizes my essays and videos, to provide context to my overall goal.

Content Index

Self

These sages, then, came to Delphi and dedicated to Apollo the celebrated maxims, “Know thyself,” and “Nothing in excess.” — Pausanias, Description of Greece

1. The spirit

   • On piercing experiential visions

     • • Centering first-personal perception in learning and relating to objects of significance.

       • 2500 words

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   • Mysticism as scientific observation

     • • On mystical practices for naturalistic people.

       • 930 words

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2. The body

   • What is Phenomenology?

   • Your Body Moves On Its Own

3. Mastery

   • Mastery as good taste

   • Paintballing towards mastery

4. Orientation

   • The illusions of the advice-giver

   • Aristotle and the Doctrine of Grey

   • <upcoming: techne and self knowledge>

5. Beauty and creation

   • Michelangelo's Shelter

   • The Symposium, Plato (4th century BC)

6. Love and goodness

   1. Dirty Saints, Monstrous Hermits

   2. Why friendship is a mystery cult

   3. On Despair

   4. The Over-Soul, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

7. Idiosyncrasy

   • The Holy Encyclopedia

   • How individuals change history

Society

Anyone who cannot form a community with others, or who does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is no part of a city-state: he is either a beast or a god. — Aristotle, Politics

1. Civilization

   • How sweet & gentle life can be

2. Change

   • Enter the paideuma

3. Wisdom

   • Which Great Books?