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The MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Thomas Mann, 1926 "“Aristotle? Didn’t Aristotle place in the individual the reality of universal ideas? That is pantheism.” “Wrong. When you postulate independent being for individuals, when you transfer the essence of things from the universal to the particular phenomenon, whi...

seekers of wisdom The Cosmic Conversations video mentioned "Persia Fume" as something that might be of cosmic significance. So, I Googled it and found the image below, but not much else. It portrays an ornate bottle of perfume as-if it has spiritual significance : note the black & white angel emerg...

Why should we prefer 'process philosophy/ontology' against the traditional 'substance theory/ontology' in metaphysics? — Metaphysics of Science https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/comments/1eej0sd/why_should_we_prefer_process_philosophyontology/ Materialism is a Substance philosophy, which...

human experience — Gnomon The Web of Life Life's a web, of whos, whys, whats, and hows , . . . . Some threads lead up toward heaven’s distant peak, Some spiral down where darker answers seek, . . . . And in their intricate connecting lines Lies meaning for our brief cosmic stay Whitehead's metaphys...

For Whitehead, God is not necessarily tied to religion. Rather than springing primarily from religious faith, Whitehead saw God as necessary for his metaphysical system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead In Philosophy Now magazine (feb/mar 2025) a letter-to-the-editor said about ...

We are both essence and form , Materialism takes the existence of the myriad concrete forms for granted, without questioning the underlying essence (the information ; EnFormAction ; mathematical structure) that causes form change. In topology, that immaterial interrelationship structure is often re...

Love’s spirit weaves the soul’s warp, weft, and wave, Creating an eternal, perfect braid, Wound from strands of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty ; Each different forms, but from the same All made. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are human evaluations of their environment. And not necessarily properties of t...

Love’s spirit weaves the soul’s warp, weft, and wave, Creating an eternal, perfect braid, Wound from strands of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty; Each different forms, but from the same All made. This expression reminded me of Douglas Hofstadter's book : Gödel, Escher, Bach -- The Eternal Golden Braid ....

Non-duality is a Buddhist concept that refers to the fundamental unity of all things. My background is not in oriental philosophy, but based on post-quantum physics and Information Theory, I have come to view the world as essentially monistic (single substance). And the common essence of all things...

This holographic dance of Everything Spins out reality like golden string; Each quantum bit precisely placed in space To make the cosmic harmonies all ring. [reply="180 Proof;980513"]'s ironic fairy tale of acausal (random) fluctuations as the First Cause, would cause the world to dance like a mani...