Christian Neoplatonism

• A Reflection on the Meaning of the Incarnation

  My own conviction is that life was not ‘created’ — I have always taken the view of Bergson and Shaw, that life was, so to speak, already there, but not in our universe of matter. It has spent fifteen billion years or so somehow ‘inserting’ itself into matter. Shaw expressed it by saying that the universe

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• The Meaning of History in 25 Theses

  “The Word of God [the Logos] became a human so that you may learn from a human how a human may become God.”–Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, 1.8.4.7-9 For what follows to make sense, the reader must be at least relatively open to the idea that ancient Greek speculative metaphysics from Heraclitus through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the

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• From Humanity 2.0 to Humanity 3.0

    This half hour RSA clip about Steve Fuller's book, Humanity 2.0 is worth watching. It establishes the state of the conversation about a transhuman future. Fuller is pushing up against the approach that I'm trying to develop here on this blog, but it's not what I'm talking about. I think his thinking, and the

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• The Logos

  We do not prove the existence of the poem. It is something seen and known in lesser poems.It is the huge, high harmony that soundsA little and a little, suddenlyBy means of a separate sense. It is and itIs not and, therefore, is. In the instant of speech,The breadth of an accelerando moves,Captives the being, widens–and

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• The Dream Prison of Conventional Wisdom, Part I

  In the last several years I have been impressed with the power and persistence of conventional thinking in the face of powerful evidence that would contradict it. So what do I want to say here that hasn't be said a thousand times before referencing Thomas Kuhn and paradigm shifts, etc.  Everybody reading here already understands

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