Tag: philosophy
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Western Wisdom: Affirming the Whole
Nietzsche famously sought to become a “Yes-sayer.” His amor fati—love of fate—was not mere resignation to what happens, but a radical affirmation of existence: to say Yes not only to joy, beauty, and success, but also to suffering, destruction, chance, necessity, and death. Nearly a century before Nietzsche, William Blake expressed a remarkably similar vision:…
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The Inner Sovereign: Lanthanide Remedies and the Evolution of the King Archetype
In homeopathy, remedies are often matched not just to symptoms, but to constitutional types—deep-seated patterns of personality, perception, and soul expression that shape a person’s experience across their lifetime. These types reflect a kind of energetic signature: a blend of temperament, coping style, and existential orientation that may manifest healthily or in distorted form depending…
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The effects of becoming civilized: attentional biases
Very few people escape the attention rigidifying impact of our immediate familial and broadly social education. This educational process is heavily weighted toward specific attention biases. A preponderance of our educational resource is spent on intellectual development. This entails, with gradually greater subtlety and specificity, the singling out, or in my language, narrow focusing upon…
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Rasa: The Essence of Delight in Existence and Art | Aurobindo
Some considerations when musing on joy….attachment versus detachment. For who could live or breathe if there were not this delight of existence as the ether in which we dwell?From Delight all these beings are born, by Delight they exist and grow, to Delight they return. Taittiriya Upanishad, II. 7; III. 6. For the universal soul…