This is an essay that explores an idea on which I have been ruminating for about ten years and that finally got (re)written in 02020. It was recently reworked to be published in Pari Perspectives (If you are interested in science, religion, spirituality, society, psychology, language, and the arts, consider subscribing to this enlightening, independent and international magazine: https://paricenter.com/our-journal/ ).
Many thanks to Kristina Alexandra Janavicius for the rigorous editing!
This version is slightly altered with videos and additional images, and some extra paragraphs at the end. (NL vertaling: link)
Category Archives: philosophy
Contexting: a challenging perspective
A necessary silence
Since there have been no new meditations on this website since April, one might think that the ontoscopy project is bleeding to death. On the contrary, there is new stuff in the pipeline. I have not written anything substantial for a number of reasons, which i shall now point out. Continue reading A necessary silence
You are your thoughts!
Here are some comments on a couple of popular slogans within contemporary spiritual circles, namely the ideas that “you are not your thoughts”, that “identification with form is wrong”, and that “all thinking is evil”. There might be differences in interpreting these words, but something is implicitly missing or not quite right with these statements.
In contrast to many others, i refuse to speak about life in absolute terms because we are all living in the relative world, and because i do not believe that any human being is able to reach or embody or represent the absolute within space and time. Continue reading You are your thoughts!
Ontology of human consciousness v.1.0
No long paragraphs this time, only an elaborate diagram with which i have tried to point out the core of my observations. Continue reading Ontology of human consciousness v.1.0
“Ontoscopy” what does it mean?
ontos: from Greek on (gen. ontos) = “being” (prp. of einai “to be”)
scopy: from Greek skopos = “seeing,” from skopein = “to watch.”
Some people have been wondering why i named this blog project “ontoscopy 101”, which, of course, i did not choose for no reason. Continue reading “Ontoscopy” what does it mean?