On Medium: Cosmic Perils and the Bright Side of Death

Read on about the existential importance of the shift from adult vanity to the enlightened humility of old age.

On Substack: The Universe is Monstrous, Yet Scientists Adore Nature

Here's an article about the paradox of existential inauthenticity in the sciences, or how scientists tend to love nature, even as they're best poised to appreciate cosmic horror.

On Medium: Nihilists are Incomplete Skeptics

Here's an article about how, ironically, the most rigorous, reductive feats of objectification end up re-enchanting nature, so that nihilists miss how skepticism overcomes itself.

On Medium: Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous

Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnected in nature, and disorder may prevail.

On Medium: The Engines of Cosmic Wildness

Read on about how quantum mechanics and natural selection are some drivers of nature’s headless body, giving substance to the claim that nature is wild.

On Medium: Progress and the Daemonic Critique of Naturalness

Read on about how art, not wisdom, defines our species because counter-creation in a pantheistic context establishes our existential condition. 

On Medium: The Cosmic Importance of Art

Here's an article that outlines transhuman values for our enlightened descendants, explaining how aesthetic values alone are metaphysically grounded in nature's creativity.

On Medium: Stephen Hawking’s Confused Pantheism

Read on about how Stephen Hawking's pantheistic confusions about the "laws of nature" derive from Spinoza's theistic packaging of nature's impersonal creativity.

On Medium: There are No Relations in the Cosmic Monstrosity

Here's an article about neo-animism, nature’s pseudo-social causal relations, and the dubious slide from social relationships to nature's asocial "relations."

On Medium: Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

Read on about secular humanist reverence, cosmic horror, and how the whitewashed version of awe is vulnerable to a critique that revives "awe's" original meaning. 

On Medium: Are We Many or One?

Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.

On Medium: Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.

On Medium: The Dread of Nature’s Lifeless Physical Energy

Read on about how the nature of scientific explanation entails a dark pantheistic evaluation that acknowledges the monstrousness of physical energy.

On Medium: Can Pantheists or Humanists Save our Dying Planet?

Read on for a dialogue on competing mindsets for addressing the ecological crisis, namely nature-worshipping pantheism and progress-seeking secular humanism.

On Medium: Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

Read on about the futile bridges of philosophy, science, mysticism, and horror fiction: by always simplifying to understand things, the facts always include a terrifying unknown or ignored side.

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror of Nature’s Profound Dumbness

Read on about the pejorative sense of life's being an accident, which some secular humanists whitewash by saying we should be grateful for life's unlikelihood.

On Medium: Is Nature Metaphysically Wild?

Here's a dialogue on whether there's an objective, informative sense in which nature is metaphysically wild.

On Medium: A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Read on about a pantheistic reframing of the mystery of subjectivity, and some Western biases that make consciousness seem so bizarre. 

On Medium: Shakespeare’s Pantheistic Deflation of Art

Read on about what Shakespeare calls “Nature’s bastards,” the Romantic overcompensation for Christianity's demonization of nature, and the progressive revolt against wildness.

On Medium: Creativity is the Bridge that Unites Civilizers with Nature

Read on about the pantheistic insight that alleviates alienation better than alternative views of our position in the world, such as theism, mysticism, and physicalism.