Soul, Self, and Consciousness
What’s This All About?
Introduction: Why Reality Feels Broken (and How to See it Whole) Things feel like they are falling...
In A Nutshell
Why Reality Feels Broken (and How to See it Whole) It's often remarked on that 'the wheels have...
Gulf politics, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the limits of Western naïvety
Gulf monarchies are now cracking down on the very Islamist forces they once unleashed, while Qatar bankrolls Brotherhood-coloured soft power through Western universities and media. This piece argues that Western elites, trapped in a naïve, technocratic mindset, consistently underestimate these long-range mythic projects – and sketches what a more integral, less easily bought response would require.
TV: Star Trek ‘Far Beyond the Stars’ (1998)
A Black starship captain lives as a 1950s writer and discovers that the future he serves and the story he writes are dreaming one another into being.
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
A perfectly scripted world fractures when one man trusts his own sense of truth over the spectacle, revealing reality as something we participate in rather than passively watch.
TV: The OA (2016)
A shared story and embodied ritual turn trauma and death into portals, revealing reality as a participatory field rather than an objective backdrop.
Film: Interstellar (2014)
Clock time stretches, folds and thickens — and perception becomes part of the physics.
Film: Inception (2010)
Layered dream-worlds reveal time as depth, not direction.
Film: The Arrival (2016)
Language collapses linear time and reality appears as a field rather than a sequence.
Albertus Magnus
Patron of Wide-Angle Seeing In the 13th century, Albertus Magnus stood in a world that had not yet...