More on the spectrum of the will and its translumination by consciousness

One fruit of Goethe’s comparatively unknown scientific work was to develop a phenomenological colour-theory. Goethe’s colour-theory reveals the familiar 7-toned rainbow to be an emergent phenomenon following the marriage a “cool” spectrum with a “warm” one. This is easy to verify in practice provided one has access to a prism and a source of incident…

Moral evolution and the translumination of the will with consciousness

One common theory of the colour is arrived at by attempting to discover the physical correlates of various colours. This is usually achieved by mapping the visible rainbow onto the electromagnetic spectrum. The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum spans from red, roughly corresponding to a wavelength of 700 nanometers, to violet, at roughly 400….

What is the effect of certain forms of art on the psyche and the evolution of consciousness?

What effect does art have on the psyche and the evolution of consciousness? This question could lead down every path but I will chose one to follow. Owen Barfield expressed a marked concern over a question related to this issue in 1957: We should remember this, when appraising the aberrations of the formally representational arts….

On Adam & Eve

It fills me with a sort of awe to imagine, in the primeval past, the gradual concrescence of individuality or “who-ness” out of the sea of collective consciousness of which our distant ancestors were crests and troughs. It is a condensation of self-consciousnesses from a solution of instinctual wisdom. Do you think “Adam” refers to…

On virtue, the ethics of dialogue, and biography

It has been very insightfully noted in respect to the exchange between Socrates and Thrasymachus at the outset of Plato’s Republic that: Though Thrasymachus claims that this is offering a definition of justice, what he says is not really meant as a definition of justice as much as it is a delegitimization of justice. This…

On decision and the love of wisdom

Someone may have difficulty motivating himself to make decisions. It is interesting to think of what a decision is. The root of the work gives a hint, since it is related to “cutting” or “striking”. Scissors, excision, and incision are siblings of “decision.” I picture it as a sort of “pruning” in the garden of…