The relationship between circulatory history and transcendent authority is a fundamental historical problem I probe in this work. As we have noted, transcendent movements are also historically prone to become congealed or institutionalized in orthodoxy or high Culture – such as Christianity, Hinduism, state Marxism, modernization theory, etc. – unt

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I am reminded of the closing remarks in Richard Tarnas’s epilogue to his classic text, The Passion of the Western Mind .

“I believe that the West's restless inner development and incessantly innovative masculine ordering of reality has been gradually leading, in an immensely long dialectical movement, toward a reconciliation with the lost feminine ... See more

From that time on, the dead have become ever more distinct for me as the voices of the Unanswered, Unresolved, and Unredeemed; for since the questions and demands which my destiny required me to answer did not come to me from the outside, they must have come from the inner world. These conversations with the dead formed a kind of prelude to what I

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For example, ordinary attitudes, behaviors, affects and self-images are first deconstructed. Then, thinking is deconstructed. Next, perception is dismantled. While observing the subtle processes behind perception, the point of observation is altered. Next, the temporal nature of informationprocessing is analysed, and then, dismantled. As a result,

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