Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.
This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days have no date in the Filianic calendar. They are days-out-of-time, non-days in which the Sustainer of the Universe lies dead. During these days we try to avoid (as far as possible) even the acknowledgement that there may be a future, for the world has ended.
There is a special chant used during these two days which you will find here.
The New Year begins with the Resurrection of the Daughter on Matidi 1st Culverine (Wednesday 21st March), and will be the Year of Sai Mati.
Learn more about the Filianic Eastre festival which begins and ends the year.
Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.
This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days have no date in the Filianic calendar. They are days-out-of-time, non-days in which the Sustainer of the Universe lies dead. During these days we try to avoid (as far as possible) even the acknowledgement that there may be a future, for the world has ended.
There is a special chant used during these two days which you will find here.
The New Year begins with the Resurrection of the Daughter on Matidi 1st Culverine (Wednesday 21st March), and will be the Year of Sai Mati.
Learn more about the Filianic Eastre festival which begins and ends the year.
Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.
This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days have no date in the Filianic calendar. They are days-out-of-time, non-days in which the Sustainer of the Universe lies dead. During these days we try to avoid (as far as possible) even the acknowledgement that there may be a future, for the world has ended.
There is a special chant used during these two days which you will find here.
The New Year begins with the Resurrection of the Daughter on Matidi 1st Culverine (Wednesday 21st March), and will be the Year of Sai Mati.
Learn more about the Filianic Eastre festival which begins and ends the year.
Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".
Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".
Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".
Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".
Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".
there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right there and can go no further.
My question is, is Miss Matichei seriously suggesting that the entire empirical (ie scientific) method should be discarded? is she unaware of the huge scientific discoveries that have transformed the world we live in that are all the results of this method?
Annalinde Matichei replies:
I was not and am not suggesting that the empirical method should be discarded. I am fully aware that this method has yielded excellent results in the technical sphere.
What I was saying was that the attempt to regard empiricism as First Philosophy (which is what Descartes did and the world following him continues to do) is fundamentally dishonest. And it is.
To say - there is clearly before us a self-consistent system (the physical world) and by restricting us to the consideration of that system from within, we can build predictive models that allow us to achieve technical results is wholly legitimate and proper.
To attempt to extrapolate beyond this and claim some "ontological" value for this predictive/technical model is illegitimate and has been based from the beginning on unclear thinking at best and outright intellectual fraud (very much of the time) at worst.
Should you discard the "scientific method"? No.
Should you discard the "scientific world-view"? Absolutely. It is the only valid intellectual course to take.
That the modern West has too big an emotional investment in the "scientific world-view" to discard it, I fully understand. In that case it is stuck with a flawed and dishonest pseudo-mythic view of the world.
And ideas do have consequences. A false and crude "First Philosophy" leads to a false and crude culture. And that is precisely what we see, degenerating by the day.
there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right there and can go no further.
My question is, is Miss Matichei seriously suggesting that the entire empirical (ie scientific) method should be discarded? is she unaware of the huge scientific discoveries that have transformed the world we live in that are all the results of this method?
Annalinde Matichei replies:
I was not and am not suggesting that the empirical method should be discarded. I am fully aware that this method has yielded excellent results in the technical sphere.
What I was saying was that the attempt to regard empiricism as First Philosophy (which is what Descartes did and the world following him continues to do) is fundamentally dishonest. And it is.
To say - there is clearly before us a self-consistent system (the physical world) and by restricting us to the consideration of that system from within, we can build predictive models that allow us to achieve technical results is wholly legitimate and proper.
To attempt to extrapolate beyond this and claim some "ontological" value for this predictive/technical model is illegitimate and has been based from the beginning on unclear thinking at best and outright intellectual fraud (very much of the time) at worst.
Should you discard the "scientific method"? No.
Should you discard the "scientific world-view"? Absolutely. It is the only valid intellectual course to take.
That the modern West has too big an emotional investment in the "scientific world-view" to discard it, I fully understand. In that case it is stuck with a flawed and dishonest pseudo-mythic view of the world.
And ideas do have consequences. A false and crude "First Philosophy" leads to a false and crude culture. And that is precisely what we see, degenerating by the day.
there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right there and can go no further.
My question is, is Miss Matichei seriously suggesting that the entire empirical (ie scientific) method should be discarded? is she unaware of the huge scientific discoveries that have transformed the world we live in that are all the results of this method?
Annalinde Matichei replies:
I was not and am not suggesting that the empirical method should be discarded. I am fully aware that this method has yielded excellent results in the technical sphere.
What I was saying was that the attempt to regard empiricism as First Philosophy (which is what Descartes did and the world following him continues to do) is fundamentally dishonest. And it is.
To say - there is clearly before us a self-consistent system (the physical world) and by restricting us to the consideration of that system from within, we can build predictive models that allow us to achieve technical results is wholly legitimate and proper.
To attempt to extrapolate beyond this and claim some "ontological" value for this predictive/technical model is illegitimate and has been based from the beginning on unclear thinking at best and outright intellectual fraud (very much of the time) at worst.
Should you discard the "scientific method"? No.
Should you discard the "scientific world-view"? Absolutely. It is the only valid intellectual course to take.
That the modern West has too big an emotional investment in the "scientific world-view" to discard it, I fully understand. In that case it is stuck with a flawed and dishonest pseudo-mythic view of the world.
And ideas do have consequences. A false and crude "First Philosophy" leads to a false and crude culture. And that is precisely what we see, degenerating by the day.
there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right there and can go no further.
My question is, is Miss Matichei seriously suggesting that the entire empirical (ie scientific) method should be discarded? is she unaware of the huge scientific discoveries that have transformed the world we live in that are all the results of this method?
Annalinde Matichei replies:
I was not and am not suggesting that the empirical method should be discarded. I am fully aware that this method has yielded excellent results in the technical sphere.
What I was saying was that the attempt to regard empiricism as First Philosophy (which is what Descartes did and the world following him continues to do) is fundamentally dishonest. And it is.
To say - there is clearly before us a self-consistent system (the physical world) and by restricting us to the consideration of that system from within, we can build predictive models that allow us to achieve technical results is wholly legitimate and proper.
To attempt to extrapolate beyond this and claim some "ontological" value for this predictive/technical model is illegitimate and has been based from the beginning on unclear thinking at best and outright intellectual fraud (very much of the time) at worst.
Should you discard the "scientific method"? No.
Should you discard the "scientific world-view"? Absolutely. It is the only valid intellectual course to take.
That the modern West has too big an emotional investment in the "scientific world-view" to discard it, I fully understand. In that case it is stuck with a flawed and dishonest pseudo-mythic view of the world.
And ideas do have consequences. A false and crude "First Philosophy" leads to a false and crude culture. And that is precisely what we see, degenerating by the day.
there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right there and can go no further.
My question is, is Miss Matichei seriously suggesting that the entire empirical (ie scientific) method should be discarded? is she unaware of the huge scientific discoveries that have transformed the world we live in that are all the results of this method?
Annalinde Matichei replies:
I was not and am not suggesting that the empirical method should be discarded. I am fully aware that this method has yielded excellent results in the technical sphere.
What I was saying was that the attempt to regard empiricism as First Philosophy (which is what Descartes did and the world following him continues to do) is fundamentally dishonest. And it is.
To say - there is clearly before us a self-consistent system (the physical world) and by restricting us to the consideration of that system from within, we can build predictive models that allow us to achieve technical results is wholly legitimate and proper.
To attempt to extrapolate beyond this and claim some "ontological" value for this predictive/technical model is illegitimate and has been based from the beginning on unclear thinking at best and outright intellectual fraud (very much of the time) at worst.
Should you discard the "scientific method"? No.
Should you discard the "scientific world-view"? Absolutely. It is the only valid intellectual course to take.
That the modern West has too big an emotional investment in the "scientific world-view" to discard it, I fully understand. In that case it is stuck with a flawed and dishonest pseudo-mythic view of the world.
And ideas do have consequences. A false and crude "First Philosophy" leads to a false and crude culture. And that is precisely what we see, degenerating by the day.
In the bourgeois materialist world shaped by Descartes, imagination and reality are regarded as very distinct. But in fact the modern world-outlook has no real criteria for judging between the two.
In the bourgeois materialist world shaped by Descartes, imagination and reality are regarded as very distinct. But in fact the modern world-outlook has no real criteria for judging between the two.
George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.
George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.
George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.
George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.
George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.
The behavior of "Swami" Kriyananda is really astonishing: He goes to an Eastern society, is welcomed into their religion, defiles their Holy Orders with gross sexual misconduct and then attempts to teach "the savages" that their traditional doctrine of the cycles must be stood on its head! And on what evidence? On the evidence of the "obvious superiority" of Western technical civilization! The arrogance is truly beyond all belief!
The behavior of "Swami" Kriyananda is really astonishing: He goes to an Eastern society, is welcomed into their religion, defiles their Holy Orders with gross sexual misconduct and then attempts to teach "the savages" that their traditional doctrine of the cycles must be stood on its head! And on what evidence? On the evidence of the "obvious superiority" of Western technical civilization! The arrogance is truly beyond all belief!
