“In a Promethean sense, man is a God. But on an even more profound level, man is a beast. This primary contradiction has plagued mankind for millennia. Man is a God. Man is a beast. These two aspects of his personality have been waging war with one another for countless centuries; a war whose casualties […]
Religion
The God Particle
The quest for the Higgs boson is a modern secular reflection of a more timeless esoteric theme. The recently released news, that researchers at Chicago’s Fermilab Tevatron particle accelerator released inconclusive results from their recent efforts to the journal Physical Review Letters, actually inspires a sense of wonder in me. The idea that as you […]
On Progress, Excerpts from “A Material Civilization” by Rene Guenon
Kemal considers these points: It’s possible to allow emotion and sentimentality to obscure clear perception. When you are facing dire situations, this tendency must be fought with all discipline. Criticisms of the West are sometimes met with knee jerk and snarky responses along the lines of ‘..well would ‘ya prefer Somalia or Bangladesh? – Other […]
Chivalry, Love and Romance, Speculations on Origins – First Stab
By Kemal, Our favorite Desi FUPA, Ms. Treta Yuga, made an interesting point about the possibility of Indian Tantric ideas underlying the Western Tradition of Chivalric Romantic love, through a Muslim Sufi influence. (On the side most of this reflects the Treta Yuga more than the Satya Yuga, in that these matters concern a dim […]