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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Great work as interpretation of spirit

The term  Great Work  ( magnum opus ) is a term used in  Hermeticism  and in certain occult traditions and religions such as  Thelema . [1] ...

Decline of the Spirit

Buddhism, in successful practice, may be the only philosophy left, as understood by Heidegger. The key here is the puzzling analysis of the ...

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Questions to ask Heidegger

1. What is his phenomenology of Spirit? 2. What is the phenomenology of the Gods, of God? (Presuming God is one of the Gods) See Eldred late...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Samsara as a fictional world

Samsara, from the point of view of the enlightened, is compared to a dream, a work of the shade of night.  On the one hand it is more than a...

Derrida on spirit in Heidegger

Because this suspicion appears absurd, because it carries in it something intolerable, and perhaps too because it moves towards the most wor...

Words

Words don't stand for something, they stand in for something (that's not present) Derrida? Now you may have noticed there is no hors...

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Hegel on Spirit

  Summary of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind Paul Trejo, August 1993 For over 180 years students have complained that Hegel's best-...

Heidegger on Zen and Spirit

World is always spiritual world

"What does 'world' mean, when we speak of the darkening of the world? World is always  spiritual  world. The animal has no wor...

Def of Ereignis as coming into view

  Ereignis Ereignis is translated often as "an event," but is better understood in terms of something "coming into view....