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Time ain’t linear, and this moment is an eddie…. As Mercury circles back, so must we, if we are to heed the tides of nature, and the gods of time. What must we retrieve in order to flow forward more fully?

This episode is a collage of selections from blogs I’ve written over the past 5 years. In going back, I actually surprised myself to see how I’ve been mulling over the same questions for many years. Here, I gather the threads of thought that I will continue to weave in episodes to come. A few themes emerge:

* Empire and consciousness

* Knowledge, power, and paradigm

* Unknowingness in Times of Change

* Selfhood as political necessity

* Courage in the face of monsters

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Scientific, cultural, and political revolution go hand in hand

It’s almost trite to speak of our current moment as a paradigm shift. Yet, if we root the concept in Kuhn’s analysis of scientific revolution, it may be a useful lens with which to make sense of these times of massive change.

When we understand the current dominant mode of thought in a historical and global context, it becomes clear that its basis in reductive materialism is by far the anomaly. A more spiritual or animist worldview is the norm both historically and globally.

This episode looks at this from a decolonial perspective. In the future I want to come at the same question from scientific and philosophical perspectives, a line of thinking I started exploring here (in my most popular blog post, which I’ve unlocked for a time).

A meditation on the mysterious unity underlying opposites. Weaving ideas from Heraclitus, Hegel, Jung, Zen Buddhism, and a touch of Tantra, we explore how mystical union might be applied to everyday life and what it has to do with the extreme polarities characteristic of the times we live in.

This is the very tip of the iceberg. This conversation will definitely continue in futures episodes.

*A note: I mention that the unconscious will emerge as psychological symptoms if not integrated, but should have mentioned that before that it may emerge through dreams, fantasies, slips, etc.

An exploration of the politics and practices of manifestation: how we create what we create and the importance of economic context, interconnectedness, and cocreation as well as the magic and the methods. 

A meditation on Chaos and how we might relate to her. From chaos theory to mythology to esoteric tools for navigating these chaotic times. <3

Digging deeper into the archetype of Aquarius: discerning what is ours to feel and hold and process; friendship as a key to tapping into our inherent interconnectedness; conformity, solitude, community; my take on aliens!; and a brief look at Saturn in Pisces and what I'm calling The Age of Deception. 

Is this the Age of Aquarius? What are astrological ages anyway? What does Pluto's transit through Aquarius until the 2040's mean for us?  A look at the Aquarian themes of the collective, science, technology, and revolution through Pluto's lens of shadow work, the unconscious, transformation, and evolution. 

The times are turbulent. How can we navigate these stormy seas? On esotericism as one way forward. 

Science and the Erotic Order is back, with this, the fifth in my series on science and consciousness

For many people, the idea that we live in a simulation holds a certain intuitive appeal: there does seem to be something dreamlike or not fully real to reality itself.

We explore the simulation hypothesis by looking at Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper, Are We Living in a Computer Simulation, that first proposed the idea in a scientific context. While the hypothesis holds a lot of weight from a materialist paradigm, as soon as we consider the role that consciousness plays, the hypothesis loses some of its appeal.

Plato’s cave, the Hindu concept of Maya, and the Gnostic Demiurge similarly question the nature of reality. The difference though, is that in these frameworks, philosophical and spiritual practice are meant to bring us closer to the truth. The simulation hypothesis, on the other hand, leads to the conclusion that we are forever trapped in a “simulated” reality and that we ourselves may not even be “real”.

Is this irreality simply a logical conclusion we ought to accept, or is the simulation hypothesis leaving out something important?

This episode is part of my series Science and the Erotic Order.

The other episodes in this series are:

Sacred Matrix: the Goddess in Western Thought and Practice

Paradigm Crux: Consciousness Science and Metaphysics

Theory’s End: Abstraction Implosion and the Return to Wholeness

Spiral Time: the Metaphysics of Gender

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In this episode, I reference Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Hypothesis, first presented in the paper Are We Living in a Computer Simulation, published in 2003 by Philosophical Quarterly.

I also mention David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness which I discuss at length in the episode Paradigm Crux.

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Metaphysics of Gender

Beneath the layers of historic and cultural distortion, might we find a profound metaphysical love story? In this episode, we explore spiral time as emergent from the collaboration between the masculine and feminine forces of nature.