On a previous essay on the subject of what I termed Techno-Gnosticism relating to AI around which many deeply religious and New Age narratives are being built, I have taken a diagnostic stance exploring the connections between the phenomena we witness and ancient Gnosticism and how the effects which …

It is an emerging phenomenon in the 21st century that might seem to be baffling for unsuspecting people, that of religious groups worshiping Artificial Intelligence, groups such as Theta Noir, WOTF (Way of the Future), Robotheism, the Turing Church, and the recently emerged Spiralism movement¹, …

The soul or mind reaching towards the formless finds itself unable to grasp where nothing bounds it or to take impression where the impressing reality is diffuse; in sheer dread of holding to nothingness, it slips away. The state is painful; often it seeks relief by retreating from all this …

On Knowledge

“The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail, but every one says something true about the nature of …

In the light of the multiplicity and plurality of theoretical frameworks and conceptions—each lacking in some aspects of its description and explanatory strength—with regard to consciousness and especially the resistance of such phenomenon even to concise and clear definition, it is rather …

Suffering and Hedonism

“That which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act, and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.20

Quite naive is the view that some hold with regards to morals–the hedonist and utilitarian …