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First Day in Hawaii, and Visit to the Tomb of Joseph Campbell.

06-Aug-12

http://thmiii.com/ I took a trip to Hawaii a few years ago, and while there I visited the tomb of Joseph Campbell.  A friend was asking me about it, and while I don’t have pictures – my camera vanished from my checked baggage – I did have a typically thorough journal.  So this is my journal entry […]

Nicholas of Cusa, Theology, and Reason.

02-Sep-11

Visakhapatnam There’s a neat little article by Mark Goldblatt on reason’s relationship to the concept of infinity, and hence, to God; it is unfortunately given the idiot title “theology is dead” (the title is probably not the writer’s fault).  As with most modern writing, the best part is when he borrows the thoughts of a much […]

Scientific Thinking. Historical Thinking. And ?

15-Dec-10

Oswald Spengler, a great and underrated philosopher, rigorously described the different modes of thinking – and hence experiencing – which constituted science and history.  From the scientific perspective, phenomena are conceived as continually possible.  If certain causes are provided, certain effects can be procured.  The hallmark of any scientific experiment is that it must be reproducible. […]

Star Maker.

25-Nov-09

MOYERS: So the old story, so long known and transmitted through the generations, isn’t functioning, and we have not yet learned a new one? CAMPBELL: The story that we have in the West, so far as it is based on the Bible, is based on a view of the universe that belongs to the first […]

Male Spirituality.

10-Jul-09

Some people have asked me what the “male spirituality” category on the website refers to. Putting a gender on spirituality seems at best unnecessary, and maybe silly or exclusionary. Nor have I written a great deal on this topic, as I have less than a year’s worth of experience with it, and with all things […]