“If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road—so deep is its logos.
—Heraclitus“Thoughts are an independent power, continuing to act on their own, growing in such a way that they restrain their own mother (the soul).”
—Schelling“The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls.”
—Whitehead
- Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (2021)
- “Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism” (2021)
- “The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology: A Study in Whitehead’s Process-Relational Alternative” in Journal of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (2020)
- “Why German Idealism Matters” in The Side View (2019)
- “Retrieving Realism: A Whiteheadian Wager” in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (2017)
- “Whitehead and Media Ecology: Toward a Communicative Cosmos” in Process Studies (2020)
- “On the Place of Life in the Cosmos: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism and Contemporary Theoretical Biology” in Intuitive Life (forthcoming)
- “Minding Time in an Archetypal Cosmos” in Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology
- “Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution: Whitehead’s Alternative Vision” in Unprecedented Evolution (2020)
- “The Function of Reason and the Recovery of an Earthly Architecture” in Function Lab (2016)
- “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosophical Lessons for a Civilization in Crisis” in Beacon of Mind (2015)
- “Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead: On the Possibility of a Secular Divinity”
- The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency
- “Logos of a Living Earth Toward a New Marriage of Science and Myth for Our Planetary Future” in World Futures (2012)
- “Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead”
- “Participatory Psychedelia: Transpersonal Theory, Religious Studies, and Chemically-Altered (Alchemical) Consciousness” in The Journal of Transpersonal Research (2010)
- “Remembering Creation: Towards a Christian Ecosophy”
- “The Spirit of Integral Poetry: Waring the Symbolism of Organism”
- “Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism”
- On the Matter of Life: Towards an Integral Economics
There are a lot of presuppositions, a lot of a priori and a lot of. I would not say. innuendos but partialities. We need to go beyond the Platonic footnote of Whitehead and establish that neuro-cognitive aesthetic is not the same as epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, and what you have in philosophy. We have overrun philosophy with sophophilia, like paedophilia and haemophilia and other philias; Let us move beyond.
William Robert
Excellent work Matthew, as always.
Looking forward to reading into your work and having conversation with you.
Evolving the civilizational techne for the noosphere to become self-consciousness by a collective process is the goal: an epistemological leap into discursive space that is unlimited to either the category of mythos or of logos but opens itself to both, to receive all forms of discourse into a common space, “the khora” if you will. Plato’s expulsion of the artist from politics must now be overcome so to empower the human spirit and save democracy and our planet.
I am interested in the practicality of building on graph database and peer-to-peer technologies to support the opening of intertextual space. See: IPFS. Think: omni-subjective knowledge graph for critical pedagogy and liquid democracy, for holarchy.
–Yarrow