I. The Elemental Premise To speak of “health” only in biochemical terms is already to assume a truncated anthropology. The ancient civilizations, East and West alike, regarded life as the intersection of cosmic and human orders; man was conceived not as an autonomous organism but as a microcosm woven of the same substances and principles …
I. The Invisible Diet Every moment we ingest more than food. We eat with the eyes, the ears, the mind. A single image, a tone of voice, a fragment of music—each enters the organism as a subtle nourishment. The modern world, with its continuous storm of impressions, is an immense cafeteria for the psyche. Traditional …
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Dates (CST): Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:14 (sunrise) → Thu Oct 23, 2025, 12:17 PM See Part I Promethean Rebellion We begin in darkness. Humanity once crouched in cold and fear. Zeus withheld the flame, hoarding the current, guarding the secret. Prometheus broke ranks. He stole fire from heaven and bore it down to men. For …
The Birth of Chronometric Power One of the most consequential shifts in modernity was the transformation of time from lived rhythm into measurable commodity. Medieval agrarian economies organized work by natural cycles: sunrise and sunset, seasons, communal festivals. Time was qualitative and task-based: a peasant harvested until the crop was gathered, not until the bell …
Time is not only a neutral measure but also a contested terrain. Whoever defines time with its calendars, schedules, and rhythms wields tremendous power. The politics of time is the struggle over temporal order: who decides what counts as past, what demands the present, and what future is possible. The ordering of calendars, the disciplining …
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Beyond Linear Chronology Time in the modern West is most often conceived as a line: a succession of measurable instants stretching indefinitely forward. Yet this reduction masks the richness of human engagements with temporality. As Augustine confesses in his Confessions, “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to …
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Mundus Imaginalis Henry Corbin’s vision of the mundus imaginalis offers perhaps the most subtle account of vigilance as a mode of dwelling in symbolic temporality. For Corbin, the imaginal is not the unreal but an ontological stratum where images and archetypes possess their own reality, neither reducible to fantasy nor to empirical fact.¹ To live …
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The Shock of the Moment P.D. Ouspensky saw time not as continuous flow but as possibility refracted across multiple lines of development. In A New Model of the Universe he speculated that time might branch, repeating itself with variation, so that the same man might live the same events differently across cosmic cycles.¹ In In …
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“Appamādo amatapadaṃ, pamādo maccuno padaṃ” “Vigilance (heedfulness) is the path to the Deathless; negligence is the path of death” (Dhammapada 21) The Absurd Albert Camus saw time not as divine rhythm but as absurd repetition: “Rising, tram, four hours in the office… one day the ‘why’ arises, and everything begins in that weariness tinged with …
The Forgotten Dimension Modernity has reduced time to a mechanism. The Gregorian calendar and the industrial clock have become the instruments by which human beings regulate labor and exchange. Yet this flattening of time into a neutral sequence of hours is historically recent. In the Vedic vision, kāla is a power of the Divine, both …