Mind Musings
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There's this thing called "spiritual materialism." It is very dangerous. Whole books have been written on it, but I think the basic concern is pretty darn simple:

"...matter, metaphorically speaking, is the creation of the spirit (the mode of existence of the observer in a domain of discourse), and...the spirit is the creation of the matter it creates. This is not a paradox, but it is the expression of our existence in a domain of cognition in which the content of cognition is cognition itself. Beyond that...

Listen to the wind, hear her anger
and desire.

It always leads home, but the path
is slick with apparitions of
authenticity and mirages of
miracles.

The import of Dewey's twin concepts of the ineffability of immediate existence and the proleptic being of all "objects" ("objects" and "things" are mis-named emergent events/processes) is nothing less than to say that existence itself, life itself, "is" queer. Being, becoming, queering, and perpetual disruption is the ineradicable nature of an...

The beauty of pragmatism - or, the pragmatic beauty of life - is found in the practice's defining commitment to the unconditional presence engendered by returning all judgments and propositions to the ineffable basin from which they dynamically emerged; not as an escape into relativism but as the unceasing movement of creative effort sustaining...

Emergent, Relational Medicine: A Preamble

The Harvard psychologist Dr. Susan David presents a wonderful encouragement for embracing the extensive and dynamic nuance of our emotional lives rather than simplistically reducing emotions to the rigid dualistic categories of "bad/negative/wrong" or "good/positive/right" emotion. (E.g., sadness is often thought to be plainly...