Category: The Logos Weave
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Reflections on the Great I AM
Being, Isness and Suchness: Towards a Relational Ontology Introduction Western philosophy has traditionally begun with the question: Why is there something rather than nothing? Yet this question assumes that “nothing” is a genuine possibility. It may not be. If non-being is incoherent, then Being is unavoidable. The question becomes not why Being exists, but how…
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The Ball Is In God’s Court
In my previous post, I described a conclusion that took many years to reach. The metaphysical ladder I had spent so long climbing does not top out in a personal deity. Natural theology, philosophy and mysticism may lead to an ultimate reality. They may lead to the Ground of Being, the Absolute, the One or…
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The Ladder Doesn’t Reach God
For much of my adult life, I assumed that philosophy and theology ultimately pointed in the same direction. As my confidence in evangelical Christianity declined, I did what many intellectually inclined believers do: I went looking for firmer foundations. I was never persuaded by reductive materialism. Consciousness seemed too strange, existence too mysterious, and the…
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A Sunday School Song
A curious thing happened recently. A Sunday School chorus escaped containment. After lying dormant somewhere in the deeper recesses of my mind for several decades, it suddenly resurfaced and began repeating itself without invitation: Jesus died for all the children,All the children of the world… Readers of a certain evangelical vintage may recognise it. Of…
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The End of My Religious FOMO
Preface The reflections below arose from a realization that several religious claims I had always treated separately may actually be connected by a single underlying assumption. The claim that believers have a personal relationship with God, the claim that scripture is a kind of divine message, and the claim that the universe itself is grounded…
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The One, the Many, and the Absence of Gods
People sometimes ask about my spiritual beliefs and I struggle to answer concisely. My views are not conventionally religious, yet neither are they atheistic in the straightforward sense. I find myself somewhere between mysticism, pantheism, symbolism, and philosophy. What makes the question difficult is that there are at least three different levels involved: metaphysics, experience,…
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Being Considered in Itself: A Formal Ontological Sketch
Preface This post presents a formal metaphysical paper developed over several months of reflective work. Although my background is in Religious Studies and writing rather than academic philosophy, I have attempted to articulate a clear and rigorous ontological structure beginning from the simplest possible insight: that Being must present itself in order to be intelligible.…
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Experience, Speculation, and the Space Between
There’s a tension I’ve lived with for years: the gap between the mystical experience I actually have and the metaphysical systems I enjoy constructing. They coexist, but they don’t meet. One is lived; the other is intellectual play. My spiritual experience is modest and quiet. What I actually feel is a unitive ground of being,…
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The Thin Metaphysics of the Steely Age
Triangularism For years I carried too much metaphysical weight: hiraeth, land‑mysticism, ancestral echoes, perennial philosophy, the ache for unity and eternity. All of it stirred something in me, but none of it changed how life actually works. None of it strengthened discipline, clarified duty, or stabilised a household. It enriched thought, but didn’t improve behaviour.…
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From Ontology to Political Philosophy – a category error?
It is often said that relating ontology to political philosophy is a category error. Metaphysics deals with being; political theory deals with institutions, laws, and collective decision‑making. The two domains, it is argued, should not mix. But this objection only holds if political concepts are treated as pure abstractions. My argument is that nations are…
