The Emergence of Spirit (Live)
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1. Introduction
Philosophy is a God of 1000 faces. To every culture she has appeared with a different apparition, yet all cultures find isomorphs of philosophy in one another indicating that she has a unitary nature. Over the course of the past decade I have sought – as many seekers transhistorically and transculturally – to find a philosophy which is truly essential. When I turned to literature, when I turned to political-economy, when I turned to modern natural science, when I turned to yoga, all that I seemed to find were veneers of essence. Indeed, what can said to be true is that everything is impermanent, dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Not even the so called laws of nature persist across time and space – new findings shatter the old, alternate dimensions mutate apparent foundations, and human invention transgresses the fixations of reality. It could even be observed that the more adherent to the rules of modern natural science civilization becomes, the more fickle, impermanent, and unstable become its underlying pattern.
All philosophy is interested in nourishing a human relationship with wisdom, wisdom which is the wellspring of knowledge & virtue. Any encounter with wisdom, the eternal process of philosophy, at the very least begins with the formation of trust. Afterall, if we cannot trust in the values of wisdom, if in one moment it is good and sound, and the next moment a wicked and false, why are we to care for philosophy? It wouldn’t change the quality of our experience of life – it would simply be the continuation of the laws of nature our organism was already constituted by due. It is in fact when we are able to place our trust in the values of philosophy that philosophy really becomes philosophy. This is why in the cradle of human wisdom – Plato, Lao Tzu, Patanjali, Siddhartha – the transcultural observance of permanence and eternity is the clear connecting thread, and it has been the very same for all wisdom traditions.
Any true philosophy is consistent, reliable, and trustworthy. Even those who consider themselves to be Jokers place their trust in the cultivation of replicable responsiveness to surprise. A good philosophy should never leave us, it should be like our very vertebrae which keeps us suspended, like our breath which is not susceptible, like the pulse of our heart which is always with us. The beautiful philosophy always captures our attention and brings us closer to those things which really matter.
There really only exist two types of philosophy in the world: spiritual and natural philosophy. Spiritual philosophy is that which emerges from our inner lives, and natural philosophy is that which emerges from our outer lives – the two in turn producing one another due to their interface. Natural Philosophy produces knowledge of the world around us, patterns of physical movement, categorizations of abiotic and biotic phenomena, and in general, compounding studies of that which is externally observable. Natural Philosophy has steadily become the dominant force of philosophy over the past 500 years, its child being modern natural science. Spiritual Philosophy on the other hand produces knowledge of human experience and meaning, reflections upon life itself in the form of art & poetry, the development of aesthetic, moral, and cultural styles of conduct, and more furthermore, more ethereal forms of knowledge entirely transcendental in form.
The purpose of this work is to develop a robust and comprehensive understanding of Spiritual Philosophy itself along with its place and purpose in human existence. In general terms, I am under the impression that at present, modern society is operating with a relatively undeveloped form of spirituality which has not kept pace with the scientific and technological developments of our brave new world. It’s this imbalance which I surmise is a dominant factor in the fraught status of the modern psychology, the psychopathic relationship maintained between civilization and the biosphere, and additionally, the intractable multipolar traps of the globalized world order.
We are in need of evolution once more in spiritual terms, and to bring this to light, we must start all over again with the foundations of spiritual philosophy.
2. The Inside and Outside of Reality
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3. Nature/Spirit
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