Tag: spirituality
-
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,…
-
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.…
-
A Neutral‑Monist Metaphysics of Ground, Archetype, and Space‑Time
My 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 is already a differentiation. The ground is simply the condition from which intelligibility arises. What…
-
Holons, the Block Universe, and the Omega Point
My 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 Holons At every scale, reality can be understood as a holon: a whole that is…
-
A Plain‑Language Summary of My Metaphysics
At 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 part we can touch, measure, and describe. But beneath and within that surface are deeper…
-
Can Metaphysics Make Space for a God Who Loves?
For 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, and grieves their wounds. Modern thought often dismisses this longing as a wish for a…
-
Understanding the 20 Core Axioms of Existence
(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 perspectives, not partitions. 1.3 Confusion arises when one resolution is mistaken for the whole. Axiom…
-
THE TWENTY CORE AXIOMS
1. 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. The three resolutions in dynamic relation. 3. The One does not divide; it refracts. Non‑dualism…
-
Robes in the rear-view mirror
I seem to be drifting into more philosophical waters lately. Perhaps it’s age, or the intellectual weather, or simply the fact that my metaphysical itches have become louder than my appetite for robes and ritual. Whatever the cause, I find myself looking back at my years in neo‑Druidry with a mixture of fondness, gratitude, and…
-
The Speculative Intersection of Christianity and My Metaphysics
This essay continues the thread begun in The Logos Weave and The Three‑Level Universe — but it’s more personal, less architectural. It’s written from the middle ground I now inhabit: sympathetic but unorthodox, shaped by years of devotion, disillusionment, and slow reconciliation with mystery. I grew up within Christianity’s orbit — its language, its rhythms, its moral gravity. There…
Hearth and Heart Magazine 