Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriated—the price he paid for The Age of Reason and its disparagement of religious institutions, … Continue reading Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

The refusal of the Church to purge abusers and pedophiles from the clergy and accept human sexuality as a blessing, is leading to the end of the Church as we know it, says Matthew Fox on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Source: Sexuality and the End of the Catholic Church - RAI with Matthew … Continue reading Sexuality and the End of the Catholic Church – RAI with Matthew Fox 

Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict, launched a campaign in defense of murderous dictatorships in Latin America and to purge the Church of liberation theology and priests like Matthew Fox - on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Source: Targeted by the Inquisition - RAI with Matthew Fox (5/8)

This post was supposed to be at The Gurdjieff Con, but I pulled a fast one and put it on Darwiniana… Modern biology can’t do justice to the human ‘organism’/being: the issue of the will… Source:  The will, beside being, as a factor of homo sapient unconscious ‘mind’. – Darwiniana

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=The%2B_Dramatic_Universe_commentary2a_JL.pdf I have tried several times to elucidate some portion of Bennett's The Dramatic Universe. I am always afraid that even dealing with the book will wreck my reputation: it gives the appearance of a crackpot tome altogether. And it indeed does have both a lot of mistakes and an appearance of excessive speculation. It … Continue reading The once and future mysterious legacy of Samkhya…

We have often cited the figure of J.G.Bennett who in mysterious connection with the rogue sufi Gurdjieff (who brought a version of ancient Samkhya into the west) resolved most of the problems, at l… Source: Bennett and a robust materialism for the left? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Source: Trump as fascist drone…? – 1848+: The End(s) of History