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Author specializing in ancient philosophy and theology

• The Beginning: Charlie and the Dream

  By snowconenyc on 2018-10-31 • ( 4 )

  

  He was on this monstrous bridge.  It didn’t connect one place to another place though, as bridges normally do.  It just existed in space.  In this magnificent, neverending sky.  A sky that surrounds the bridge.  A sky that surrounded everything…. Read More ›

• Yoga and Vedanta: The Legacy of the Indo-Aryans

  By snowconenyc on 2018-10-17 • ( 4 )

  

  You didn’t have to go very far, or have too far out a view on the world, in order to be exposed to Yoga in the hustle and bustle of modern day.  In modern times, what we like to call… Read More ›

• Judeo-Christian Cosmology: A Comparative Perspective

  By snowconenyc on 2018-10-09 • ( 9 )

  

  The primary source for Judeo-Christian cosmology is can be found in the early part of the Bible[1], primarily in Genesis of course[2].  The challenge when looking at the Bible from a purely academic and historical perspective however, is that one… Read More ›

• The Hetu and Luoshu Diagrams: Numerology in Chinese Antiquity

  By snowconenyc on 2018-04-08 • ( 1 )

  

  One of the most fascinating texts from antiquity is the I Ching, i.e. Yijing, one of the oldest extant documents in Chinese history and certainly one of the oldest philosophical treatise that we have in existence today.  The document is… Read More ›

• The Snow Cone: It All Rests On Faith

  By snowconenyc on 2018-01-06 • ( 4 )

  

  Charlie thought some more about this idea of cause and effect, this underlying law of all subject-object metaphysics as Pirsig[1] defined it.  This premise that in fact reality was represented only by things you could touch, see, taste or hear;… Read More ›

• Religion and Politics: Separating Oil from Water

  By snowconenyc on 2017-12-24 • ( 8 )

  

  Searching for a a simple progression or development of monotheistic religions in the ancient world is no easy exercise by any standards.  Monotheism clearly had tentacles that stretched far back into the dawn on civilized man, at least as far… Read More ›

• Metaphysics in the Quantum Era

  By snowconenyc on 2017-11-20 • ( 4 )

  

  Thankfully we do not have to recreate the wheel to in order to try and formulate a more global and holistic intellectual paradigm through which we at least have a chance to address some of these persistent and global problems… Read More ›