I used to say this often, but I haven’t in a while: a soul extends to the limits of what we mean when we say “everything”. Each soul is universe-sized. This is why I sometimes refer to everythings, plural. Materialists who believe that a soul (psyche) is an emergent property of our nervous system, and … Continue reading More than every possible everything
When we apprehend realities that transcend our comprehension, and find that our minds cannot find objective edges around which a concept may be gripped, we can ignore these realities into oblivion and see them as dead nonexistence. Or we may accept them as living nothingness — divine ground — and attempt to relate ourselves within … Continue reading Mystical topology
To apprehend is to know-that. To comprehend is to know-what. When know-that stubbornly resists know-what, when we touch with the tips of our fingers something that cannot be grasped by the hand of our thought, we feel ourselves situated within something incomprehensible. We comprehend the fact that we are comprehended by something incomprehensible. The relation … Continue reading Apprehend, comprehend, suprehend
Mutual, mutable, mutate and mutant are all derived from the same Latin root, mutare, to change. Mutual comes from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mutuus — lent, borrowed. Mutable, from Middle English, from Latin mutabilis. Why should anyone care about this etymological bit of trivia? For me, the profoundest value of entering a relationship of … Continue reading Mutual mutation