Thesis Disputation: “The Redemption of Thinking: A Study in Truth, Knowledge, and the Evolution of Consciousness with Special Reference to Goethe, Barfield, & Steiner”

New tidings: I successfully defended the dissertation yesterday and CIIS has kindly provided me with a video recording of the proceedings, which I offer below to anyone who has interest: Brief tidings of this slated defense, by me, of a dissertation titled The Redemption of Thinking. It is a “sub-Corona” defense. That is to say…

Poem: “…for spring is here”

See how every bud is swelling Filled with secret power, welling From an unseen source The selfsame origin of the force That animates our wildest dreams And Nature bursting at the seams Exult, exult, for spring is here And perfect love casteth out all fear And yet, my love, behold the moon Our summer dream…

Poem: “Did you ever wonder?”

Did you ever wonder:What is the beginning of the rose?The sap that rises with the lightHow its ministering angel knowsWhich boughs to leave with buds bedight? Whence the swirl of the rose?The whirling arms of a Sufi’s danceA lilting music plainly showsIts argument in the petals’ trance. And what will be the rose’s end?Cast alone…

Article on Owen Barfield and the Evolution of Consciousness published in Cosmos & History Journal

“That there exists a history of thoughts represents less a question to be decided by research than an operative hypothesis or condition to undertake the majority of philosophical, theological, and scientific research in the first place. Put another way, the history of thoughts is a theory by which facts and findings of research in various…