The medium of television blinds us from the rich and detailed history of the last few thousand years. It focuses our limited attention on those events and ideas which have been captured on the television screen in just the last few decades. What do we know about Reality if our notions of Nature come from [...]
In a society where children are viewed as a burden, something to be avoided at all costs, it is strange to read in the Old Testament about the ancients actually praying to God for decades that He would allow them to have children. This was the case with Isaac in Genesis 25:19-28. Isaac married at [...]
Thoreau made a poignant and astute statement when he turned inward to soliloquy about the invention of the telegraph and its degrading influence on the typographical American mind: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau [...]
What is modernity? Why is the whole world insane? Eric Voegelin said that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. He defines Gnosticism as the belief that humans can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action.
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