...where the Two become the One
In my previous examination of Pandora’s Jar, I dismantled the deceptive comfort of hope, exposing it as a passive tether that binds us to the reactive cycle of afterthought. To break free from this paralysis, one must adopt the mantle of Prometheus—the bringer of forethought. However, true forethought is not merely the intellectual exercise of predicting outcomes; it is an act of rigorous, spiritual, and cognitive alignment with reality, or the Logos. […] Read more »
Forethought, Afterthought, and the Trap of Passive Hope To live in alignment with the Logos—the divine ordering principle of truth—requires a rigorous devotion to cause and effect. It demands that we look at reality not as we wish it to be, but as it objectively is. However, the human mind is frequently divided between two modes of being: the active will of the planner and the passive reaction of the […] Read more »
The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many […] Read more »
A psychological archetype is a universal, inherited pattern of thought, behavior, or imagery residing in the collective unconscious, shaping human experience and psyche. Those stemming from mythological traditions, like the Great Mother or Trickster, embody recurring motifs across cultures, reflecting timeless human struggles and aspirations as seen in figures like Sophia or the Serpent. Transactional Love is a conditional exchange where affection or care is offered with the expectation of receiving […] Read more »