A seedling pine
Are we raising our young people to throw themselves up against the storms which rage at the highest altitudes of our civilization? How will these seedlings become strong pines?| Samsara Diagnostics
How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key?| Samsara Diagnostics
To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves.| Samsara Diagnostics
One way to see grace might be the power to create new and unexpected timelines.| Samsara Diagnostics
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth.| Samsara Diagnostics
Are we raising our young people to throw themselves up against the storms which rage at the highest altitudes of our civilization? How will these seedlings become strong pines?| Samsara Diagnostics
A philosophical clinic for language animals and desiring machines| Samsara Diagnostics
The mystery cult is dead, and we have killed it. We have unleashed the deep mysteries on an unsuspecting populace, and now anyone can infect themselves with esoteric wisdom on YouTube.| Samsara Diagnostics
Philosophy is like a poison -- a medicine for some may be a poison for others.| Samsara Diagnostics
Paul provides us with a model for how he approaches modulating his speech depending on his audience's level of spiritual maturity.| Samsara Diagnostics
What happens when the injunction to be free has become the inner message of power?| Samsara Diagnostics
What if the power of religion lies not in what is authentic or personal about it, but precisely in its capacity to make us feel strange and alienated from ourselves? The wastefulness of worship makes us modern religious folk deeply uncomfortable because it seems out of place in the recent| Samsara Diagnostics
In the wake of the cross, we now have to grapple with who God has revealed Himself to be, laying waste to all the games we used to play around Him.| Samsara Diagnostics
When we see the one who wields power, we must see someone ensnared in a myriad invisible deals with their terms penned in blood.| Samsara Diagnostics
I've been experiencing a gradual weakening of my bonds with those fields which once gave shape to my life through their fantasies, discourse, and transferential relations.| Samsara Diagnostics
This year will provide new opportunities for us to think and learn together. Here are the key components of Samsara Diagnostics on the horizon for 2025...| Samsara Diagnostics
If we have received perfect love from God, how can we remain fearful? Has not fear been cast out? When we act from love, we give to others the power to no longer be fearful, for they have received the type of love which casts out fear.| Samsara Diagnostics
The idea of assessing your spiritual progress will get you laughed at, and that's a damn shame.| Samsara Diagnostics
Whatever the truth might be, Hegel contends, it cannot be something like an artifact which can be taken up at will or a formula which may be rehearsed.| Samsara Diagnostics
No teacher can give us what we are looking for, because a teacher can only communicate knowledge, not the original intuition from which that knowledge arose.| Samsara Diagnostics
Have you heard the story of the extinction of the Great Auk? We know exactly when their species was eradicated from the face of the earth.| Samsara Diagnostics
Like a radioactive substance, Love is leaking into the world from the porous walls of the Church, leaving everything irreparably changed.| Samsara Diagnostics
To lose evil is also to lose good – at least, a certain conception of good.| Samsara Diagnostics
The theological roots of modernity are taken for granted, but Blumenberg argues that the secular notions which define modernity are not secularized theological concepts, but rather secular attempts to answer theological questions.| Samsara Diagnostics
Last year I worked on optimizing my process for output, but this year I want to focus more on inputs. That's why I've decided to launch Samsara Study Groups.| Samsara Diagnostics
How shall we water the earth with our tears of joy? I ask myself this question in consternation as I wrestle with the Christian vision of the new heavens and the new earth in which suffering has no place.| Samsara Diagnostics
