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Who or what composes a series of dream images?

The Delphic idiom: gnothi seauton (“Know thyself”), assigned to Pythagoras, carries an extended history in the Western world. It grew to become popular all through of the teachings of Socrates as well as Plato, along with the query to obtain self-knowledge was, from that point on, much more a challenge of philosophy than of religion. In the religions, Western man made larger attempts to attaining understanding of the characteristics and meaning of the world altogether...

Frederick the Great: Unveiling the Philosopher-King’s Literary Legacy

In the annals of history, few monarchs have left as lasting an imprint on both the political and intellectual spheres as Frederick II, commonly known as Frederick the Great. Born in 1712, Frederick ascended to the throne of Prussia in 1740, embarking on a transformative reign that combined military prowess with an unparalleled commitment to philosophical discourse. The present English selection of Frederick’s writings aims to shift the focus from the overshadowed military and political...

Lost in the world

You Are the Mayfly

A mayfly hatches at eleven at night. By the time it can think at all, it already knows one thing with total certainty: it was born into darkness, and darkness is all there has ever been. If it could reason, it would reason correctly, from everything it has ever measured. It would build a theology around the dark. It would explain the cold. It would, if the night stretched on long enough, begin to notice...

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Descartes radical shift in mathematics

If you have been the proverbial fly on the wall in Descartes’s bed-room in La Flèche, in southern France, in 1636, you may have watched Descartes laying in bed observing you. His most remarkable idea came to him while observing a fly crawl along a curved path, which he thought about illustrating in terms of its distance from the walls. A revolution in thought was in the making; mathematics would certainly never be similar. The...

The Quest for Truth

This statement is a lie

“One should not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” – Søren Kierkegaard Paradoxes appear in all shapes and forms. Some are simple puzzles of reasoning, while others reveal the foundations of entire scientific disciplines. Many can be solved by careful examination of their hidden assumptions—one or more of which may be...

The Initiatic Path in the Maier-Files Series

The Maier-Files series takes its readers on a captivating journey through the intricate paths of initiation and reawakening, weaving a narrative that transcends conventional notions of knowledge and experience. In this exploration, we delve into the profound initiatic teachings that underpin the characters’ transformations and Otto Maier’s enigmatic history. Understanding Initiatic Knowledge: Initiatic knowledge, as presented in the Maier-Files series, challenges conventional perspectives on recognition and understanding. The initiatic point of view emphasizes that true...

The invisible collateral – What nations borrow against

Government Subsidies: The Mathematical Con That Makes You Thank Your Robber

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” – Pat Miller In our previous exploration of logical paradoxes, we examined how mathematical misdirection...

December 31 — Silvester, Commodus, and the Last Night of Roman Dignity

On the Threshold Between Eras There is a question that hangs in the air on the final night of the year, one that our time has learned to drown out with noise. We have been taught that December 31 is for celebration. But a deeper memory, one written in the blood and stone of our ancestors, knows it as a moment of judgment. Before the fireworks, there was the silent assessment. Before the intoxication, there...