Transcendence

Transcendental Phenomenology: A Priori Science of Consciousness

24 Nov 2014

Transcendental Phenomenology is a system of philosophy created by Edmund Husserl, the 20th century German philosopher. Phenomenology is the a priori science of experience: It studies experience without reference to assumptions posited by experience. Phenomenology considers experience in itself and without assuming anything about the reality or unreality of the contents of experience. The experience … More Transcendental Phenomenology: A Priori Science of Consciousness

Take it easy but never serious

9 Nov 2014

This body and mind are there in the world along other objects of the world; they are there as the tree or the river that’s there; they have nothing to do with me; they were never mine to begin with. Traditionally we put the divide between us and the world at our bodies. The body … More Take it easy but never serious

Human Condition & Existential Dementia

28 Oct 2014

The three questions “Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?” constitute what I call the Existential Trinity. These three questions summarize all of the human questions that seek to find the meaning of life and existence. It was as attempts to answer these questions that the three traditions of religion, … More Human Condition & Existential Dementia

The Esoteric Nature of The Intellect

7 Oct 2014

Pure Intellect in the face of the Absolute It is the case that mysticism is often associated with faith or spiritual experience rather than reason and intellect. Many mystics have condoned intellect as a means of attaining to the truth. The way of the mystic is understood to be alien to the way of the … More The Esoteric Nature of The Intellect

The Immortal Within

28 Sep 2014

The Life of The Disinterested Onlooker Dwells in the void the eye of all eyes; it is the detached source of all light; it is the Disinterested Onlooker. The Disinterested Onlooker sheds its supreme light on the pure forms and intentions of the transcendental ego, the ego that constitutes the cosmos through ideation. The light … More The Immortal Within

Science or Dogma

23 Sep 2014

Transcendence is not a human possibility because humanity is itself a transcendental possibility of consciousness. We are not human beings with consciousness. We are only experienced to be human beings with consciousness. It is not humans who are conscious. It is consciousness that experiences itself as humanity. Only consciousness can know and say that it is … More Science or Dogma

23 Sep 2014

The Reign of Quantity

18 Sep 2014

The body of human knowledge, including self-knowledge and self-understanding, is dominated by quantity. We know and value things based on their quantitative content. This manner of understanding experience is so rooted in the subject that one can even define human as that which sees only quantity. I weight 140, age 30, earn 11111, spend 1111, … More The Reign of Quantity

Adults and Their Dolls

17 Sep 2014

Humans never stop playing with dolls: As children our dolls are synthetic barbies, animals, babies, etc. We clothe them, talk to them, play with them, love them and hate them. As adults our dolls are notions, ideas of our own making. We clothe them with the sense of reality and synthetic seriousness, we talk to … More Adults and Their Dolls

The Real Fall

13 Sep 2014

The fall of human being from paradise was not an event but an ongoing process. The fall never ended; we are still falling: We are in falling. This falling is a falling away, a being thrown outwardly, from eternal presence: The falling is a falling away from the center which is the dwelling place of presence and … More The Real Fall