Mythos
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Stonehenge Explained
Built on the site of an ancient cemetery, Stonehenge was a “monument of remembrance,” he said, and an “expression of unity” that pulled people together in the pursuit of a common endeavor. Yet, he said, “People don’t want it to be that simple as an explanation.” (NY Times 2/17/22) The U.S. Capitol explained 2500 years
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Genealogy Part 6: Vervaeke’s “Awakening” Series v. My “Genealogy” Series
Plato lived at a time when the inner crisis of the traditional Greek polis and the religion intimately bound up with it had become evident, and there seems to be no reason to deny that this had a profound effect on his decision to abandon the public arena to cultivate the wisdom necessary to build
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Genealogy Part 4A: Of Salience Landscapes and Metaphysical Imaginaries
I had been struggling about how to present what I want to say about Western Axiality in a way that might make some sense when I came across this lecture series by the Canadian cognitive scientist John Vervaeke entitled "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis". (His Lecture 10, which is relevant for Posts 4A and 4B