Sophia's Ichor

Sophia's Ichor is a website dedicated to finding things out and the kind of elation that comes with deep insight. Most profoundly, it is about the connection between what is discovered and how it is known. Why? Because we only ever uncover Truth as ourselves. To be sure, our discoveries may be about the universe at large. Nevertheless, it is only the conscious witness that is able to know it. In this way, we can see that it is we ourselves—the Watchers, if you will— that have been charged with supplying meaning to existence. To this absurd wonder.

Not only are we the Watchers of this interwoven web of existence, but we are participating artists in its efflorescent movement. The whole is a steadily blossoming flower. Every stage it establishes deep and harmonious roots. Roots that allow itself to branch off into novelty, creating endless forms with which it can continue in its eternal dance. We are this dance.

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The Sophia of Sophia's Ichor comes from the word philosophy. Philosophy means "to love wisdom." To love Sophia.

In Hellenistic philosophy, Sophia is honored by the Gnostics and regarded as the goddess of wisdom. Gnostics are a group of people who base their gnosis (knowledge) on personal experience and perception. They believe there exists something sacred about the world and the way in which it is perceived. The key, of course, is to be found in that indefinable term; consciousness. 

Finally, from ancient Greek mythology, Ichor is said to be the ethereal golden blood running through the veins of the Gods.

In recent times, there has been a depreciation of the love of Sophia. This should not be so for she is the mother of all of our knowledge and it is only within her domain that we can answer the important questions in life. 

Only Sophia can approach meaning and love. Only Sophia can begin the attempt to explain the ineffable gnosis of mystical experience. Science, I'm afraid—the daughter of Sophia—can not approach any of these. This isn't to say science is wrong or misguided. It is only meant to illustrate its partial existential validity. 

Sadly, because of this overwhelming ignorance or disdain towards "philosophy," I have disguised her in this website as "deep thoughts." The truth is everyone is a philosopher or a lover of wisdom. I think it is safe to say we all love finding things out and the blissful moment of comprehension that comes with it.

Further, everyone is guided by their own internal voice of reason. This inner voice—if it can be accessed with patience, honesty, and integrity—is the ichor of Sophia. It is something much deeper than shortsighted intuition and heat-of-the-moment reflex. It is something unknowable by science yet is the very driver of science. And finally, it is an insatiable impulse to know combined with a humble humility and a fearless curiosity.

To know the ichor of Sophia is to know thyself. 

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