During what psychologists call “flow states,” where one is completely immersed and absorbed in a mental or physical act, people often report an altered sense of time, place, and self. It’s a transportive and pleasurable experience that people seek to achieve, and that neuroscience is now seeking to understand. A great example of flow state [...]
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Racism is baked into the structure of dialectical philosophy | Aeon Essays
It’s not just that Hegel and Rousseau were racists. Racism was baked into the very structure of their dialectical philosophy — Read on aeon.co/essays/racism-is-baked-into-the-structure-of-dialectical-philosophy
China: Charting a Course Between Conflict and Accommodation – OZY | A Modern Media Company
Our China strategy will require the flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances, but starting principles could include: A determination to compete aggressively on all measures of power and influence and to implement this with an American “whole-of-government” effort — that is, a strategy that marshals all parts of the U.S. government in a coordinated manner [...]
Joy Harjo on the Power of Poetry, and on Building a Comprehensive Canon of Indigenous Poems – Chicago Review of Books
“It is poetry that holds the songs of becoming, of change, of dreaming, and it is poetry we turn to when we travel those places of transformation, like birth, coming of age, marriage, accomplishments, and death. We sing our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren: our human experience in time, into and through existence.” So begins the anthology [...]
Five Books about the Writing Life | Book Marks
Claire Messud, the author of Kant’s Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write, shares five books in her life — Read on bookmarks.reviews/five-books-about-the-writing-life/
Sikhi In The Age Of Western Domination: Gurmat Or Abrahamic Belief? — The Sikh Mindset – Panthic Soch In A Modern World
The Western World has been the dominant civilizational force on the globe for much of the past 500 years, and its hegemonic power is demonstrated in full force through the Sikhs it has been responsible for producing. The erosion of traditional Sikh theological context is evident when speaking with young Sikhs born and brought up [...]
Erowid Alan Watts Vault : The Nature of Consciousness
I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our perspectives with some background about [...]
Ode to a Flower: Richard Feynman’s Famous Monologue on Knowledge and Mystery, Animated – Brain Pickings
Ode to a Flower: Richard Feynman’s Famous Monologue on Knowledge and Mystery, Animated – Brain Pickings — Read on http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/01/01/ode-to-a-flower-richard-feynman/
Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Welcome to this special site celebrating Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 250th birthday on 27 August 2020. To mark the occasion a wide range of Cambridge content from across books and journals is now free to access, along with brand new podcasts and blogs featuring some of today’s leading Hegel scholars, as well as an interview with Terry Pinkard where he [...]
The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays
Birds have always been important ‘markers’, associated with particular seasons, times and places. In the ancient world, weather and seasonal changes were matters of vital consequence for agriculture, travel, trade and the rounds of domestic life, and birds served as a standard point of reference in calibrating and interpreting the cycles of the year. In [...]
