Ten Articles and Chapters on the East in the West

 

The West and the Other https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-west-and-other.html?spref=tw #Abstraction,#Definition #East, #Paradox #Philosophy #Religion #Taoism #Theology #West

Wikipedia page on Indra's net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net It is one way of characterizing the plenum underlying physical reality. The idea may have found its way into Kubrick's 2001. https://t.co/vBEyo0Q1ON

The Age of the Lord Buddha. Does he belong in the middle of the first millennium BCE, or at the beginning of the second millennium BCE? #Bimbisara #Buddha  #China #Philosophy #Chronology #Puranas #RigVeda #Mahabharata http://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-age-of-lord-buddha.html?spref=tw 

How old is the idea of Vishnu? http://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-old-is-idea-of-vishnu.html #2ndMillenniumB.C.E #Being #Brahma #Hinduism #Image #Mekong  #Shiva #Trimurti  #Vishnu 

Pythagoreanism, the Divine, and the Nature of Eternity https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/09/pythagoras-and-transcendentalism.html?spref=tw #Pythagoras #Pythagoreanism #Divinity #Eternity #Religion #Transcendentalism #Mathematics #Geometry #Commensuration #Surds #Plato

What is Philosophy? [The origin and the importance of philosophy, in 1100 words].  https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-is-philosophy.html?spref=tw #Philosophy #Pythagoras #Plato #Platonism #Transcendentalism #Reality #DivineCult #Sophist #Republic 

What We Have Lost, and How the Ancient Concept of the Cosmos Died. https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-we-have-lost.html?spref=tw #Plenum #Transcendence #Materialism #EuropeanEnlightenment #Buddhism #Theravara #Philosophy #Ritual #Reality #Excellence 

The Tangled Thread: Universals in History. #Mesopotamia #Universals #AncientGreece #DivineStatues #Thresholds #Rationalism #EuropeanEnlightenment #Descartes #Abzu #Enki #Ea #Knowledge https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-tangled-thread-universals-in-history.html

Thomas Taylor and the Ancient Theology https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/04/thomastaylor-and-ancient-theology.html?spref=tw #ThomasTaylor #Polytheism #Monotheism #Theology #AncientTheology #Philosophy #Iamblichus #Plato #Platonism #Pythagoras #Eurocentrism

The Double Nature of Reality. https://t.co/lE1ixLjfX5 #Statues #Reality #DivineCult #Paradox #Infinite #Finite 

Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/13/wolfgang-pauli-carl-jung-figuring/ via @brainpicker #Pauli #Jung #Physics #Archetypes #Paradox

On Infinity and Creation (Seven Discussions)

 

Featuring Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli, Helen Czerski, Adrian W. Moore, John D. Barrow, and H. Peter Aleff.

 

'Something from Nothing' A narrow understanding of reality plus a limited knowledge of the history of ideas can make idiots out of otherwise really bright people. A conversation with Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss. youtu.be/q0mljE9K-gY via @YouTube #RichardDawkins #LawrenceKrauss #SomethingFromNothing #Atheism #Cosmology #Physics

 

‘God, the Universe, and Everything Else’ (1988). A discussion (52 minutes) with Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking. Moderated by Magnus Magnusson. #God #Religion #Spirituality #Science #Physics #Mathematics #Infinity #Mandelbrotset #Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQQAv5svkk

 

‘Why Did Our Universe Begin?’ (Roger Penrose) A short discussion which shows the limitations of trying to understand creation purely on the basis of mathematics and physics, and a great deal of inference. #Infinity #BigBang #Creation #Entropy #RogerPenrose #Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws

 

Physics in all its glory (BBC ‘Start the Week’, first broadcast November 9, 2020) Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose joins Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski to discuss black holes and ocean currents with Andrew Marr. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6dl #Physics #Cosmology #Creation #BlackHoles #Size #CarloRovelli #RogerPenrose #HelenCzerski

 

Evading the Infinite: a Review of Adrian Moore’s radio series, 'A History of the Infinite', broadcast by the BBC in 2016. #Infinite #Infinity #philosophy #Reality #Mathematics #Being #SetTheory #Plato #Aristotle #Plotinus #Neoplatonism #Hilbert https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2017/10/obscured-by-clouds-critical-review-of.html

 

Continued Fractions Professor John Barrow (Gresham College lecture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCFF1l7NzVQ transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/

 

The Egyptian Shen Ring. Discussed at Peter Aleff's 'Recovered Science' site. An Egyptian exercise in abstract and philosophical thought. #Shen #Egypt #Abstraction #Philosophy #Transcendentalism #Infinity #Nun #Atum #Creation #Numbers #HPeterAleff http://www.recoveredscience.com/const104shenring1.htm

Enki Temple

 https://transcendental-musics.blogspot.com/2020/10/enki-temple.html Mind the fishbones on the floor.

Can't find my stuff on Amazon? Here's why.

  

Armando Ourique

Why your books are not available at Amazon?

Just now

Armando, hi. I don't sell via Amazon for several reasons, but the main reason is their terms and conditions, which are not very friendly to authors and publishers. A friend of mine runs a small-scale poetry press (....). Almost everything they have published in the past ten or so years is commercially available. They try to sell via Amazon, but often their books are listed as 'not currently available.' If they don't like you, they will just cut you off.

You can buy my books from a number of large retailers (including Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, etc. and now even Walmart). The books are distributed to these retailers by my distributor Smashwords, and are always listed as available.

Amazon does not have a monopoly, but they have too much power. They are happy to throw their weight around. I'm well aware that many more people would find my books if they were listed on Amazon, but plenty find them anyway.

Best wishes, Thomas Yaeger.