At the foundation of premodern symbolic thought lies a simple but profound intuition: reality is experienced as the meeting of heaven and earth. This claim is easily misunderstood by modern readers, who are accustomed to treating such language as a primitive attempt at cosmology. But symbolic language was never primarily an explanation of physical mechanisms. … Continue reading The Axis Mundi; How an Ancient Symbol Still Reveals Integrity, Meaning, and What Endures
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13 Things I Simultaneously (and Provisionally) Believe to Be True
Reflections in the wake of the Alex Pretti shooting Because the sovereign person is the highest-resolution unit of society—and because the state possesses an inherently asymmetric capacity for coercion—the default posture should always favor empowering the person and restraining the state. I strongly affirm both First and Second Amendment rights of the sovereign person (citizen) … Continue reading 13 Things I Simultaneously (and Provisionally) Believe to Be True
The Accuser and the Embracer; Two deaths, two spirits, and the deepest story ever told
As the Orthodox Christian artist and thinker Jonathan Pageau is wont to say, “Symbolism happens!” Symbolism, he explains, “is not so much an arbitrary allegorical representation of something, but rather the very pattern by which we notice meaning.” Sitting by the fire in the predawn pall of this bitter Minnesota winter, I found myself gazing … Continue reading The Accuser and the Embracer; Two deaths, two spirits, and the deepest story ever told
The Sacred Hierarchy of Value: A Portal of Renewal in a Disenchanted Age
Listen: Speechify Audio Link Introduction In this post, I am going to attempt to articulate a perspective that, over the last eight years, has matured from a tiny seed to a deeply rooted, life-changing, and still vigorously growing personal reality. I remember vividly the first faint tremor—the prelude to the quake that would upend a … Continue reading The Sacred Hierarchy of Value: A Portal of Renewal in a Disenchanted Age
Deliberative Dad 