This is a letter I wrote to my students of 2020. April 29th, 2020 Dear students: You are nearing the end of your High School education under strange and complicated conditions. It is a sci-fi scenario: illness, self-quarantine, and paranoia. Governmental control. Misinformation. And fear. Cultures and economies shutdown, empty cities, and confusion, finger-pointing, and violence. Threats multiply as the news propagate information that scares the wits out of us. Experts warn o

This project contrasts Gary Lachman's and Richard Tarnas' view on the debate about privileging particular metaphysical paradigms, that is, when a view of the world is jettisoned for another, instead of dialectically recuperating the value of the losing view. The case of scientific realism versus esotericism as a mode of sense-making is considered, and consequences of their categorical divorce articulated. Lachman on the Lost Knowledge of Esotericism and the Dangers of Materi

Reading is the intimate act of making oneself conscious of the strange and mysterious relationship between ideas and phenomena. This act can force you, subtly or forcefully, to face your convictions and to explore new ground as to find a broader set of beliefs to make your new general view as coherent as possible. This process is handed down from generation to generation for there is never an isolated set of ideas that can justify their validity. Members of our species can le