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Jun 12, 2022

Liberation From Our Modern Purgatory

From Material Civilization to Sacred Knowledge I. Material Civilization What is a chief mark, a distinguishing characteristic of our time, of the particularly anomalous epoch in which we live? The perennialist Rene Guenon argues that it is materialism–indeed, that modern civilization is a material–perhaps, to date, the–material civilization. Rightly, he observes, in his acerbic The Crisis of the…

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Mar 11, 2022

Overcoming The Scarcity Mindset

On The Centrality Of Self-knowledge Scarcity Pure and Simple Versus The Scarcity Mindset 1: Scarcity pure and simple is not the same as the scarcity mindset. Someone who really doesn’t have enough food to eat is, as a matter of fact, experiencing scarcity. 2: In contrast with scarcity pure and simple, the scarcity mindset sets up a conundrum: one really does have enough…

Philosophy

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Overcoming The Scarcity MindsetOn The Centrality Of Self-knowledge
Overcoming The Scarcity MindsetOn The Centrality Of Self-knowledge
Philosophy

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Dec 14, 2021

A Sense Of The Cosmos

Reflections on Happiness and Cosmology — I. In Search of the Cosmos: A Plea for Astrology and Alchemy You might find it an odd, not to say also an especially infelicitous, way to begin these reflections on the nature of happiness by offering up a special plea for astrology and alchemy. But hear me out. I know precious little about either but enough about both to be able…

Philosophy

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A Sense Of The Cosmos
A Sense Of The Cosmos
Philosophy

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Jan 4, 2021

Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course Starting In February

Update (January 6) This write-up was originally posted on January 4th. I won’t be taking more applications after the end of January 11th. The Character Of Our Time It has gone largely unnoticed that our time is defined by Total Work, the long historical process through which human beings have been slowly transformed into Workers as nearly every…

Work

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Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course Starting In February
Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course Starting In February
Work

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Oct 26, 2020

Clearing And Wising

Preamble The question I ask in this long form essay is: “Why are people not kinder to one another and to all sentient beings? Why, indeed, is not kindness the default mode?” And the answer I come to is this one: we are not clear and we are not wise. I’d…

Modernity

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Clearing And Wising
Clearing And Wising
Modernity

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·Oct 12, 2020

The Liberal Arts during the Meta-Crisis

On groundlessness and existential homelessness I. A Dream In a dream, you see that you’re somewhere you’ve never been before, the landscape you survey appearing unrecognizable to you. Only in the next breath, it strikes you as if, no, this landscape is all too familiar. …

Philosophy

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The Liberal Arts during the Meta-Crisis
The Liberal Arts during the Meta-Crisis
Philosophy

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Oct 6, 2020

Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course Starting In November

To Those Who Received The February Discount Code The course will be held on each Sunday in February: that is, on February 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. The start time will be 4 p.m. EST/9 p.m. GMT. The application form, which includes further instructions at the top, can be found here. …

Total Work

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Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course
Escape Total Work! A 4-Week Course
Total Work

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Aug 12, 2020

Stop Confessing Your Vulnerabilities

The Uninvited Confession, The New Confessional Over the years, and most especially during the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve noticed an unsettling trend: people I barely know or do not know at all will send me letters written in the mode of a confession. Completely out of the blue. The writer will not ask after me or mine…

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Stop Confessing Your Vulnerabilities
Stop Confessing Your Vulnerabilities

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Mar 30, 2020

Find Your Sweetness!

A critique of Total Work in a time of COVID-19 Find Your Sweetness! Don’t “find your bliss!” if “finding your bliss” continues, mistakenly to be sure, to lead you to hunt for that chimera, Meaningful Work. The good news is that you don’t have to worry about finding meaningful work because meaningful work…

Work

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Find Your Sweetness!
Find Your Sweetness!
Work

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Jan 28, 2020

The Spell of Total Work: A Fairytale

Starring the Mischievous Magician, The Clever Ones, & a Band of Merry Pranksters — Casting A Spell Once upon a time, there lived a mischievous magician in a realm just above that of upright, ambulatory, hairless creatures who’d taken to calling themselves homo sapiens.

Work

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The Spell of Total Work: A Fairytale
The Spell of Total Work: A Fairytale
Work

7 min read

Andrew Taggart

Andrew Taggart

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Practical Philosopher, Ph.D. | Meditation Teacher | Zen Buddhist | Proponent of Self-inquiry (https://andrewjtaggart.com)

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