God is Dead and you're Alone(?)

In a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast psychology professor Jordan Peterson discussed important aspects and problems of contemporary Western culture. Especially his analysis of Nietzsche's "God is dead" rang a bell for me. Building on what he said, I would like to propose further conclusions regarding the state of culture in certain aspects.

Embodied, Grounded, Integrated: at Home

The following text grows from the inside out. Within it we will take a look at the human condition and its place in the world, bouncing off of both recent and ancient findings and concepts. We will start from deep within us and expand outwards, both upwards into the sky and downwards into the earth, just like the plant does in growing. The point therein will be to briefly introduce a philosophy, a common sense that corresponds to both what we feel and experience, and to what we have learned through analysis and inquiry. As the title indicates, the following will be structured into three parts, only to watch them amalgamate in the end.

Few Thoughts on Freedom

As should be clear by now, the central premise at the heart of this blog is the unity of body and mind, and resulting from that, the equation that movement is life. In our culture however, the mind-body split is still deeply rooted. (Ironically, of course this very concept of a mind-body split is itself embodied within the human organism, but that's for another day.) Therefore, most philosophical notions that originate from a body-mind unity will differ from classical Western philosophical notions and also from Western 'common sense.' Today, I want to take a short look at the term of freedom and how it may relate itself to an embodied existence.