Jean Gebser and the Philosophy of Consciousness Fernando J. Villalovs The philosopher Jean Gebser presents an architectonic that places consciousness within a process of dialectical unfolding. A structure is a moment in the evolution of consciousness, in which the capacities of consciousness of annulment or cancelation, preservation or retention, sublation or transcendence, ground it in a self-generating process of development toward increasingly more complex and inclusive un

Claude Levi-Strauss and the Philosophy of Myth Fernando J. Villalovs In this project, I examine the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss' metaphysics of mythology, through his work Myth and Meaning [1]. I show how Levi-Strauss demonstrates that there is an artificial metaphysical schism between myth and science, insofar as the latter is built on the former's illusion of power. The Modes of Science: Structuralism and Reductionism Claude Levi-Strauss begins his account of myth by

In some of my projects, I have shown that scientific and esoteric approaches can benefit from each other via a Participatory Epistemology (PE), which is a philosophical model that entertains consciousness and the universe as a conversation about the patterns of complexity and universal regularity. PE's big picture relies on humility and recognition of the explanatory limits of rational consciousness and on the capacity of the mind to layer symbols into a holistic model of tru