by Max Teernstra | Jun 15, 2022 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
1. Story: Heaven and Earth It may be useful to begin this article by explaining in what manner story is explored. However, it’s perhaps more intriguing for the reader to contemplate the following wise phrase, which implicitly contains this entire article in a simple...
by Daniel Townhead and Kenneth Florence | Jun 12, 2022 | Articles, Current Events, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
AS SHE WALKED FROM the Louvre, she seemed to sense some articulated structure shifting to accommodate her course through the city. The waiter would be merely a part of the thing, one limb, a delicate probe or palp. The whole would be larger, much larger… Of...
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | Jun 8, 2022 | Articles, Current Events, Theory
The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in June 2022 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. JP: Welcome everyone to this new episode of the Symbolic Life with Jonathan Pageau and JP Marceau. Today what I’d like to do...
by Daniel Townhead and Kenneth Florence | Jun 5, 2022 | Articles, Current Events, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
Egregores have become a big topic of conversation for figures not too far away from the Symbolic World, such as Jordan Hall and Rebel Wisdom guest BJ Campbell. Paul Vanderklay has touched on the subject a number of times. Jonathan Pageau however has simply dismissed...
by Bruno Bracco | Jun 2, 2022 | Articles, Bible, Theory
Symbols are bridges It is not original to say that, metaphorically speaking, symbols are bridges. That basically means they connect two realities that would otherwise remain isolated. The very etymology of the word makes it clear: symbol originates from the Greek word...
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | May 29, 2022 | Articles, Theory
There’s an interesting ontological problem in the philosophy of physics. As David Chalmers writes: [P]hysical theory only characterizes its basic entities relationally, in terms of their causal and other relations to other entities. Basic particles, for instance, are...
