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…
Keep readingModern liberal democracies tend to treat citizenship as a thin, mostly administrative status — a passport, a legal identity, and a bundle of rights that can often be acquired with minimal integration. In my Civic Republicanism, citizenship is something deeper.…
Keep readingPreamble I often write about Civic Republicanism in abstract terms — subsidiarity, competence, non‑domination, polycentric authority, civic guardianship — but abstractions can only take a reader so far. At some point, the most effective way to explain a constitutional philosophy…
Keep readingTriangularism 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…
Keep readingThe older I get, the clearer life becomes. Not mystical, not bardic, not wrapped in ancestral fog — just clear. For years I carried a soft, atmospheric worldview: hiraeth, land‑mysticism, cultural memory, psycho‑geography, the old stories. They stirred something in…
Keep readingIntroduction Idealism lasts longer in some men than others. Mine lasted well into my fifties — far past the age when most people have already learned that good intentions don’t guarantee good outcomes, and that systems don’t save people from…
Keep readingIt 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…
Keep readingMy metaphysical outlook begins with a neutral‑monist conviction: that the ultimate ground of reality is prior to any distinction between mind and matter. This ground is not a “layer” in any structured sense, because layers imply intelligibility, and intelligibility itself…
Keep readingFor some time, my political reflections have lived under the heading Politics of Scale. It was a useful phrase, capturing my belief that political life only makes sense when it is rooted in the appropriate level of community, authority, and…
Keep readingIn an age when political imagination feels exhausted, the Politics of Scale demands that we think again about how human beings organise themselves. The old binaries — centralisation versus localism, globalism versus nationalism, technocracy versus democracy — no longer map…
Keep readingMy metaphysical outlook rests on three complementary ideas: panpsychic nested holons, the Block Universe, and Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point. Each offers a different angle on the structure of reality; together they form a single, coherent picture. 1. Panpsychic Nested…
Keep readingAt the heart of this metaphysics is a simple idea: reality has depth, and we live inside more than one layer of it at the same time. What we normally call “the world” is just the surface level — the…
Keep readingThe Emotional Logic of Evangelical Piety** Evangelical Christianity places enormous weight on the idea of a personal relationship with God. In sermons, songs, and testimonies, God is described as a loving Father who desires intimacy, listens to prayers, guides daily…
Keep readingFor many people, metaphysics feels too abstract to touch the deeper human longing for a God who loves — not as an impersonal force or a pattern of coherence, but as a presence that desires intimacy, cares for the individual,…
Keep readingIn many religious traditions, the idea of a personal deity is taken to mean a supernatural being who thinks, chooses, plans, and intervenes in the world. But there is another way to understand this experience — one that neither dismisses…
Keep readingCategory My Metaphysics Evangelical Christianity Ken Wilber Dawkins‑Style Humanism 1. Ontology One reality, three resolutions. God–creation dualism. Nondual Spirit. Materialism only. 2. Ultimate Reality Absolute as depth, not a being. Personal God. Spirit as consciousness. No ultimate reality. 3. Structure…
Keep reading“To act well is to increase coherence without diminishing presence.” This axiom captures the ethical centre of a metaphysics built on dynamic balance. It proposes that good action has two simultaneous obligations. First, it should increase coherence: the degree to…
Keep reading1. Ethics begins where the part recognises it is not the whole. 2. To act well is to increase coherence without diminishing presence. 3. Every being has the right to unfold without coercion. 4. Freedom is the Infinite expressed responsibly…
Keep reading(Three expansions for each of the 20 Core Axioms — unpacking, clarifying, and deepening.) Axiom 1 — The Real is single, but disclosed in three resolutions. 1.1 Unity is not simplicity; it is depth refracted. 1.2 The three resolutions are…
Keep reading1. The Real is single, but disclosed in three resolutions: the Absolute, the Archetypal, and the Actual. The foundational architecture. 2. The Absolute is depth without form; the Actual is form in motion; the Archetypal is the bridge between them.…
Keep readingSiluria has always struck me as a place that tells the truth about the world. Not in the mystical sense, not in the “thin places” sense, but in the way a scar tells the truth about the wound that made…
Keep readingOne of the most persistent questions in modern thought is this: What are human beings actually doing when they engage in religion? Not just socially, not just psychologically, but metaphysically. Materialist accounts tend to say “nothing real is happening.” Radical…
Keep readingHave you ever met the kind of bloke who insists on telling you some rambling story — usually the pub bore who sits alone all night at the bar? He’s always trying to collar whoever’s ordering a drink, talking to…
Keep readingMost ethical systems begin with rules, duties, or ideals. Mine begins somewhere else entirely: with a metaphysics of relation. The universe, as I understand it, is not a collection of isolated objects but a field of relations, a lattice of…
Keep readingI’ve been using AI very extensively in this blog — both to craft paragraphs and to generate images. The ideas are mine, the direction is mine, and much of the wording is mine, but I use AI as a kind…
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