night terrors
I have been awaking at night, usually in the early hours of the morning, having had a dream with some unsavoury end, or sometimes its not unsavoury but still strikes me with a resonance of a kind – like seeing a...
New Music Wrap
Well it’s not completely new, some of these songs I have been working on for years, but it is newly packaged so that’s new enough. Firstly my “War, Actually” single, which contains The Pacifist and Golden Tower is now out: You...
not as bitter as before
Another day at home with a fever, cups of tea, feeling on the edge of reality. This is the best time to post an update. When the cares of the world seem distant. I am not as bitter as before. Although...
bitterness
Looking back at some of my writing this website, I am coming to realise how naive I have been about human nature. They might sound outlandish, but I really was genuinely imagining future societies with interconnected internet democracy, a secular yet...
rightbrain leftbrain
Plosm’s division of Logos and Ouroboros does map onto other dualistic theories of nature, such as the left brain vs. right brain conceptualisation of thinking styles, or feminine yin vs. masculine yang, or the philosophical mind vs body problem etc. ...
being sensible
The idea of Pλosm is that every action has at its root either a logical rationalisation, or else it is an intuitive response which, by its nature, is irrational (but is still sensible*). These are the two approaches of the ‘Scientist‘...
M
The M in Pλosm stands for the Muses—including Saraswati and the Gods of literature, dance and music, and it extends to divine madness, and the drunken wildness of Dionysus, and the early forms of Shiva (Sanskrit ‘mada’ = drunkenness, lust; perhaps...
S
The S in Pλosm represents Science. The scientist is drawn by curiosity towards the unknown. But they are also determined to keep their feet on the ground of reason. Science in its modern form is a product of the Enlightenment. But...
O
O represents the Ouroboros—an ancient possibly Egyptian symbol of a snake eating its own tail. It is also the ensō 円相—a zen symbol representing the universe, enlightenment and ‘mu’—the void. It represents the Hindu Upaniṣhad’s concept of Brahmā, the absolute, and...
Λ
Λ or L stands for Λόγος , logos, which is a word or argument.. a narrative and by extension a logic, a law (though ‘law’ has a different latin root–from laga, something lain down). The progress along the pada, the path,...
P
The P in Pλosm is for Path or Sanskrit पद् ‘pad’ = foot (it has the same indo-european root as in octo-pous, “eight feet“, and ‘pedal’). Each footstep on the path finds a balance between logic on the one hand, and...