Mystical Traditions
Rumi and the Sufi Tradition: The Longing That Is Already the Answer
On the paradox of longing as both the wound of separation and the path to union with the divine presence
The Cartographer
Indigenous Traditions
Pacific Northwest: Potlatch, Totem, and the Salmon People
On how totem poles function as libraries of genealogy and covenant, the potlatch as economy of generosity that inverts capitalist logic, and what it means to belong to the salmon's world rather than merely inhabit it
Indigenous Americas
Dunbar–Ortiz: An Indigenous Peoples’ History and Settler Colonialism as Ongoing Structure
On how settler colonialism constitutes the United States as an ongoing structure of elimination rather than a historical event, and what Dunbar–Ortiz reveals about the land question America cannot resolve
European Indigenous Traditions
Norse and Germanic: Odin, Yggdrasil, and the Initiatory Tradition
On the World Tree as axis connecting nine realms, Odin's self-sacrifice as the initiatory act that won knowledge of fate, and why the Norse cosmos cycles through destruction toward renewal rather than eternal order
African Philosophy
Akan Philosophy: The Concept of the Person, Communal Ethics, and the Critique of Western Universalism
On how the Akan concept of personhood integrates divine soul, individual character, and communal kinship in ways that dissolve the false choice between Western individualism and collectivism
The Grail Tradition
The Troubadours and Courtly Love
On how the troubadours made romantic love into a spiritual path, and why the obstacle to desire was the point
Hermeticism
Iamblichus and Theurgy: Working With the Gods
On the split between intellectual contemplation and ritual action, why the soul requires divine participation to ascend, and how Iamblichus rebuilt Neoplatonism to make theurgy foundational to Western esotericism
The Perception of Time
Bergson: Duration, the Living Present, and the Death of Clock Time
On how Bergson distinguished lived time from measured time, why this distinction remains philosophy's unfinished business, and what we lose when we reduce experience to clock instants
Ecology and Deep Ecology
Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology: The Universe as Communion of Subjects
On how Thomas Berry's "new cosmology" diagnoses ecological crisis not as behavioral but as cosmological, requiring a sacred story where the universe itself is subject rather than resource
Big Science
The Ten Dogmas
On how scientism converted a method into a metaphysics, and why distinguishing between them is the first act of intellectual freedom
The Technological Society
The Enframing
On technology's transformation of being itself, and how the reduction of all things to resources closes off other ways of knowing the world
The Formation Crisis
Twelve Years of Schooling, Zero Years of Formation
On how standardized testing and the college-prep monoculture have decoupled schooling from formation, leaving the essential work of human development to chance and circumstance