pagan metaphysics

Pagan Metaphysics: In Defense of Polytheistic Philosophy

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Pagan Metaphysics has been consistently misrepresented by monotheistic traditions as primitive or philosophically inferior. This claim rests on a fundamental confusion between the Absolute Principle (Brahman, the Tao, Guénon’s “Supreme Principle”) and a personal creator God. What monotheism presents as theological advancement represents, from the perspective of traditional metaphysics, a catastrophic descent into anthropomorphic literalism.

Against Academic Consciousness Studies: The Epistemological Fraud of Profane Inquiry

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The field of Consciousness Studies presents itself as the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry. Neuroscience meets philosophy. Psychology engages with contemplative traditions. Eastern wisdom and Western science bridge together. Consciousness Studies practitioners speak of “neurophenomenology,” “contemplative science,” and the “hard problem of consciousness” with an air of profound discovery. They talk as if materialist reduction has matured …

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A Brief Reminder of Who and Where We Are

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It has been my hope in writing this simplest and briefest of sketches to present the reader with the most essential starting point for any spiritual pursuit. I will be skimming over vast amounts of information – entire religions’ worth of intricacies, but, sometimes simplicity is more conducive to understanding than lengthy expositions. This is …

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