Identity
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Personal Auras Strong as Coffee, Complex as Cajun
I think we forget how strong is the aura of a person. That is all, thanks. I’ll be philosophizing here all week. Seriously, what I mean is that we spend our whole lives practicing how we present ourselves to others. We want to attract relationships of some kinds and not others. We forget that this practice creates a strong “giving off” of “vibes” whenever we are around someone. Some of us are sensitive to others’ treatment of us, especially those close to us. If someone doesn’t want to be around us, sometimes it hurts, even if only a little. But we should remember just how powerful of an experience it…
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A quick tip on meditating
Positivity of the kind used in meditation and perhaps Indian philosophy¹ is not just a pragmatic psychology but is grounded in a very powerful ontological position. I will briefly describe that position before sharing a tip on meditating. That position, nearly espoused by Hegel, and at times by Spinoza, is that only positive assertions can be true. More precisely “some things exist,” or “some sentences are true.” That is, more or less, a solution to the problem of nonexistence–for the most part, a problem that arises when we wonder what nonexistence is, what it is “not to be,” what existed before the universe if anything, or even theories of ontological…
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Hegel on free will and property, as told through translation notes
If you’re listening to that sentence, depending on which of the transcriptions I’ve italicized is correct, Hegel could be saying very different things about free will and what one does with it, or what it might do on its own...
