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Have you Made a Deal with the Devil?
Have you made a deal with the Devil? Probably not. Let’s be honest, neither you nor I are likely powerful enough to warrant his attention. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t been brokering deals with principalities. Most of us do. I dare say, all of us must. Let’s...
The Symbolism of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
The story of St. Dionysius has a deep symbolic resonance for those of us who are seeking to recover a more pre-modern or symbolic understanding of the world—particularly those of us who have been led by that quest into the bosom of traditional Christianity.
There is No Literal Meaning
This post is a transcript of a video published in September 2019. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. One of the problems I run into when talking to people about symbolism is the whole literal versus metaphorical idea. I’ve...
Miracles — Responding to Objections
I answer the main objections that have emerged following my recent work on miracles. I mainly rely on Aquinas, Eriugena, and the symbolism of the Apostles after the Resurrection.
Haunted Computers
Computers are haunted objects – but they are not haunted by the same specters that frequent the halls of Victorian mansions, Southern plantations, or castles in the deep, dark Bavarian Forest. The past haunts those locales, but computers typically present themselves...
The Ascent of Alexander the Great
This post is a transcript of a video from January 2020. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. In 2019, just before the end of the year, in November and the beginning of December, I went on this strange binge of creating different...
How The Scientific Revolution Changed Our Worldview
In this article, I explore how I think the material worldview cuts in half, flips inside-out, and turns upside-down the spiritual worldview. As our knowledge expands in all directions thanks to artificial ways of documenting and distributing information, we are...
Accelerationism and Dancing with Death
This post is a transcript of a video from April 2019. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. In the past few years, we’ve seen in certain circles – both rightwing and leftwing – a resurgence of something called accelerationism,...
In Remembrance: Menin Gate at Midnight
On a summer evening in July 1927, an artist went for a walk outside the city of Ypres, Belgium. By chance, he spoke to a passerby whose words inspired his best-known painting, a work that symbolically brought fact and meaning together.Will Longstaff, born in...
The Meaning of Vampires
This post is the transcript of a video from October 2019. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and Gareth Boyd for the edition. The idea of blood-sucking creatures has been around for quite a while. It is there in most cultures, but what I want to look at in...