Intro Simple question: Where is your house? The answer is a simple geological one: it’s in such and such country on this particular street. How many minutes are in an hour. Also a simple question. Becouse we have agreed that there are 60 minutes in a hour. Now, where are you when you dream? The …
The Physical and the Metaphysical model of the Universe (Eliade, Peterson and Nietzsche) Read More »
Part I: Departure (Watch the full video on YouTube by clicking here.) There once was a young prince called Guatama Sakyamuni, the Future Buddha. For all his life he had been protected by his father from all knowledge of age, sickness, death and monkhood, to prevent the young prince from renunciation of life. For the …
The Hero’s Journey and Individuation (Campbell, Peterson and Jung) Read More »
Intro (Watch the full video on YouTube by clicking here.) Without knowing any context, without any words, most of us are able to know what the story was about that you just saw. [Clip from Hercules] First, there is the beginning, the blissful introduction of the Hero. But then something, unpredicted and unfortunate happens Then …
Intro Whenever we talk about Marx, there is a lot of polarisation going on. You eighter love him, or you hate him. So before diving into the concept of alienation, I will give a little disclaimer for reading Marx. There are 3 personalities in Marx’s writing: the accountant, the philosopher and the idealist. Depending on …
Intro Is this why we work? The rat race… the grind… Rising in the morning only to want to go to sleep again… Your whole life you took the path of least resistance and ended up with a job you do not like, working for a boss you do not like, only so you get …
Cold… silence… Then, with a flick of the wrist, electrical currents rushing to the first relays. Clicks of engagement. The first rotor starts rotating. Fuel starts flowing towards its final destination to go up in flames. Then, the activation of a solenoid pushing against the force of the spring that has been holding him company …
There once was this child. His parents so happy they finally, against all odds, received a child. They were so happy with this gift of a child; they swore they would give him everything he desired. They would tell him every day about how special he was. That he would do great things. That he …
In order to make sense of this world our brains and our systems have developed categories. Categories enable us to know what value to give to a certain set of anomalies that arise before us. For example, if someone calls themselves a carpenter, we know he can build chairs for example. Then we know what …