Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6NDZdw Losing your field and becoming illegible I've been experiencing a gradual weakening of my bonds with those fields which once gave shape to my life through their fantasies, discourse, and transferential relations. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"Landscape with ruins in the moonlight" by Arnold Böcklin (1849) Entering the third year of Samsara Diagnostics This year will provide new opportunities for us to think and learn together. Here are the key components of Samsara Diagnostics on the horizon for 2025... Matthew A. Stanley
Fear or Love? If we have received perfect love from God, how can we remain fearful? Has not fear been cast out? When we act from love, we give to others the power to no longer be fearful, for they have received the type of love which casts out fear. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
When the Pope anathematized the teachings of St. Augustine How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key? Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
Edvard Munch, Death at the Helm, 1893, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway. The rich young man in Jesus' clinic To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
No one is totally lost One way to see grace might be the power to create new and unexpected timelines. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
