Updates

I've updated my publications list.
Also, new blog "Love as a Guide to Morals" about my latest book which will be out soon.

Plotinus on Beauty

This afternoon I was reading Heisenberg on the Platonic conception of beauty in Plotinus, in a book by Wilber (sometimes life is that complex!)

Plotinus said, "Beauty is the translucence, through the material phenomenon, of the eternal splendor of the 'one'"

I happened to look up to see our black pug Molly resting her face on my leg. I said to her, "Molly, you probably don't realize it, but your beauty is a shining forth of the One who is in all that is." Molly sighed knowingly.

Two ways of seeing

I've been playing around with a few metaphysical thoughts ... ideas on a grand scale—ways of seeing all that is.
I put together a diagram. In both ways of seeing the smaller circle is epiphenomenal of the larger. 
The green circles reflect my current thinking, a synthesis of my understanding of the mystical traditions east and west. The orange circles a materialist view. Make of it what you will!