What a way to end the year! Going down into the depths of the Faustian soul. Thank you to everyone who signed up to our courses this year at Halkyon! If you'd like to learn more about Spengler, please follow this link: halkyonacademy...
Cool. Geeking out. Cooking squash, onion, and carrot stew in a sweet mustard, thyme & olive oil sauce ... ... ending the most intense year yet staring ever deeper into the glowing abyss of the anthropocene along with its megafires, massive floods and droughts, existential risk, the looming threats of runaway AI, societal & civilizational collapse, extreme weather and climate, and actual as well as potential mass extinction ... ... all simmering in years of diving deeply into axiology, epistemology, ontology and meta -- or more accurately, micro-, macro-, and transphysics. Beyond being and nonbeing, doing and undoing, becoming and unbecoming, evolution and extinction, living and dying ... there lies a field, and in that field the Buddha and the bees hum, Lao Tse and Rumi dance, and the gods and peoples and nymphs and flora and fauna of all nations and aeons laugh, fight, bite, play, eat, love ... and enjoy yet another solstice in a dying world that never quite ends ...
