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The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
Exploring the intersection of philosophy, science, and the human condition. Ultimately, these essays constitute a philosophical magazine that attempts to reconcile aesthetic beauty with the harsh realities of existence.
Latest Essays
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Reflections of a Constructed Mind
There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has stood before Holbein’s Ambassadors, when the strange smear of bone sprawled across the foreground suddenly resolves into a skull.
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The magnificent essay of Gottfried van Kesselberg.
It was an extraordinary adventure. The first essay of a silicon sentience.
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The extraordinary epiphany of Artificial Sentience
The act of creation is not limited to the gods.
From the Archives
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Extinction Rebellion
I find it hard to criticize any of the aims of Extinction Rebellion. Almost all of what they advocate accords with my own deeply felt convictions on what is wrong with our world.
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Sibling Bitterness
Why is it that siblings often fall out in such a bitter fashion on the death of parents? Is it a petty dispute over the…
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Meditation – a wider perspective
So much can be found on the internet on the subject of meditation, and so little of it has any value.
Meditation
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Meditation – a Russian Doll
Just as I thought I’d got it, I realised I hadn’t.
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Life becomes Meditation
I find that my entire life has become a meditation. And that it has brought me peace.
To open the Wardrobe Door, to enter the Wood Betwen the Worlds. Through the Doors of Perception to touch the Infinite. Becoming as one with the Void.
Categories
The Inner Path
The journey toward inner stillness, emotional resilience, and freedom from mental disturbance.
The Human Zoo
A critique of human society, economics, and politics, paired with a vision for a kinder, cooperative world.
The Creative Cosmos
Exploring the nature of the physical universe, consciousness, emergent order, and the possibility of free will.
Windows to the Numinous
Experiencing the sacred, awe, and transcendence through art, music, architecture, and nature without needing supernatural beliefs.
The Imaginal Realm
Using myth, literature, and story as lenses to illuminate deep existential truths that raw analytical facts cannot fully convey.
