Wave-Particle Duality: So Much for the Atom
From Charlie’s standpoint, Relativity Theory could be grasped intellectually by the educated, intelligent mind. You didn’t need advanced degrees or a deep understanding of complex mathematics to understand that at a very basic level,…
To What End: The Limits of Science
Charlie could remember back to when some of this had all started to germinate. He was still in school back then. Back in Providence. When he was a ‘student-athlete’, whatever the heck that meant. But in his better moments, he was…
The Royal Yoga: Patanjali’s Eight Limbs
Charlie was young and naïve enough to believe in his younger days that he could create a new paradigm of reality that assimilated the scientific empiricism of the West with the mystic, meditation of the East. This is what he and Jenry had…
Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: Back to First Philosophy
If you believe in the power of mathematics to describe the universe, as the language of God so to speak, in its theoretical as well as predictive power in describing the nature of the physical universe at the cosmic as well as subatomic scale,…
The Enlightenment: The Tree of Knowledge Takes Root
After the fall of the Roman Empire and into the middle and latter part of the Middle Ages in the West, mainly in the period from the 11th century CE until the end of the Renaissance and the advent of the Scientific Revolution, the beginning…
Aristotle and Democritus: Knowledge and the Atom
Having established the premise of his thesis, what appeared to be clear cultural borrowing of mythological and cosmological themes between and among the ancient Western civilizations, themes which crystalized and evolved into monotheism as it…
Knowledge and the Intellect: Extracting Truth from Scripture
Outside of his thesis coming together, with some clear indicators of cultural borrowing among Ancient Western civilizations with respect to the development of theology and philosophy, Charlie now had a much better context within which to view…
The Scientific Revolution: God Learns Analytic Geometry and Calculus
After much study and analysis then, it was clear to Charlie that there was no notion of this hard distinction/separation of subject and object in the ancient cosmological and philosophical systems of thought that developed in the ancient civilizations…
Hellenistic Theo-Philosophy: Sowing the Seeds of Christianity
Despite his search through the evolution of thought from the dawn of civilization, particularly in the Mediterranean and Near/Far East, Charlie still had yet to find that marker, that break, where man had become so convinced of the reality of…
Meditation and the Mind: The Sharpest Tool in the Shed
This review of the Cosmology of the ancients, their similarities and differences, their relationship to power and authority, were all intellectually interesting and of course relevant for that thesis that Charlie had to produce, but not so…