Category: Culture
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Philosophy You Can Feel: The Cosmology of Tai Chi
Taijiquan is not merely exercise but embodied Neo-Confucian philosophy. Each form enacts the cosmological principles of Zhou Dunyi and Zhu Xi: the emergence from Wuji to Taiji, the interplay of yin and yang, the cycling of phases. The body becomes a laboratory for investigating universal patterns, transforming the practitioner into a conscious participant in cosmic creativity: philosophy made tangible, metaphysics…
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Born Again, Enlightened, Analyzed: Exploring the Many Faces of Conversion.
This essay explores the concept of conversion as a transformation of the self, examining its manifestations in Christianity through figures like Paul, Augustine, and Luther, and comparing it to Islamic submission, Zen enlightenment, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. All involve a reorientation of identity and purpose.
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Fashion Ghosts
What is real? A good question to ask at the beginning of 2022. How do we move from reality to fiction? Or rather backward: We live with fictions, but what is real? The intention of this post is to show the beautiful facades of San Francisco through the 2021 Christmas period, almost devoid of humans. […]