The year end statistics for 2021. The big surprise is the increase in female readers and those under 25. Continue reading
Year End Summary 2021
Fall Schedule 2021
We stress that the discussion is always based on practice. Our approach, the esoteric and traditional approach, is not to develop a model of a person, to “be” a person. The former is intellectual, the latter requires an ontological transformation of one’s state of being. Continue reading
Reaching a Grand: 1000 posts
We reached 1000 posts yesterday. That is almost 1.3 million words, enough for at least 10 books or so.
It’s been a wonderful experience. Writing makes ideas clearer than reading ever could. Continue reading
Geist Magazine is Out
The first edition of our literature and art magazine, “Geist”, is just out, and you can read it for free. A multilingual magazine with texts in English and German, Portuguese, French and Italian translated to English, and artworks by several international artists. Poems, short stories, photographs, paintings and illustrations — it’s all there. Continue reading
Year End Summary 2020
On the many-coloured Hans Buenting Map (1581), our world looks like a flower; its three petals present the three continents of Europe, West Asia, Africa, united by the Holy Land. The map allows for a different reading, too: the flower is the faith of Christ and Our Lady, and the three petals are Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Continue reading
Audrey of the Sun
Audrey del Sol was a pisser, as we say in Boston. She was alive in her body, and in her soul, and in her spirit. Never without an opinion, her mind wandered over whatever topic intrigued her. Continue reading
The Platonic Tradition
We include Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas as the pillars of the Platonic Tradition. This does not mean that they agree on every detail, but that they participate in a mutually comprehensible discussion. Continue reading
Meeting Notes for 20200928
What follow are our meeting notes for 28 September 2020, including the Euro and Western Hemisphere online Zoom meetings. After an extended meditation, we continued our preparation for the study of Ur-Platonism. We began with a discussion of our experiences with the task to discover one’s true self. It was … Continue reading
The New Decameron: Nice Guys
I was surprised to read the email. Although he was my college roommate, I hadn’t heard from Chad in some 20 years. From mutual friends, now and then, I learned he had become an actuary, gotten married, yada yada. You know how it goes, once the routine starts, it develops … Continue reading
Dante and the Hermetic Method
James led a public discussion of the inner meaning of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Here are links to the text to be discussed: One is the Longfellow translation chosen because it’s easy to find online: Divine Comedy Volume 1 Canto 9 The other is the Carlyle translation which is a literal, … Continue reading