The Mandukya Upanishad marks a pivotal moment in the history and evolution of human thought. In it, we are treated to the first description of the fundamental four “states” of consciousness. Waking, dreaming, dreamless sleep, and Turiya, simply “the fourth.” … Read More
Quantum field theory explained in a nutshell. QFT tells us the fundamental object(s) of the universe is unbounded fields or rather, a single unified field made up of many distinct but superimposed, interpenetrating, and cooperating in parallel fields. Energy flowing … Read More
Philosophy has long asked the question “What is Reality?” While it’s daughter, physics has been more precise by asking instead: “What is it made of?” The answer, as we shall see, takes us into quantum field theory. One of the … Read More
Nature is a complicated organism and she operates in ways we find difficult to understand, but always she seems to operate via two fundamental modes. I am of course speaking of space and time. As such we can see that … Read More
A more in-depth look at special relativity. This does not, by any means, exhaust the topic and is only meant to help you with your presumably failing intuitions as to what space and time “are.” I hope to also illustrate … Read More
The general theory of relativity is a little more intuitively difficult than the special theory as it brings in the geometry of spacetime and then proceeds to bend and warp it. Its difficulty is to be expected considering it took … Read More
The unbounded, a timeless mythologem of a watery void is pervasive throughout human culture. It would seem that a necessary (watery) no-thing is required for there to exist an all-things. In this video, I explore the meaning behind the ancient … Read More
I define what the name Sophia’s Ichor means and then go on to define that ambiguous term wisdom. To me, wisdom is the pleasure of finding things out. It’s about being addicted to insight. But the kind of insight that … Read More
The Upanishads — ancient India’s enduring gift to humanity. Steeped in meditative insight, they are some of the oldest surviving texts that seek to explain the world by way of direct experience.To my mind, it is the final few chapters … Read More