analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

Spiritual Architecture

stuff On those things greater than ourselves

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analects under the categories btrmt. believes in, as set out in the manifesto

analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • gnosticism in blood meridian 26 Jan 2026 [marginalium] Gnosticism in Blood Meridian. Fantastic old essay on the Gnostic themes in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I am a little confused by his account...
  • ethical astrology 9 Jul 2025 [marginalium] Ethical astrology: Astrological forecasting tends to describe the future more thematically or archetypically than concretely, and the vast...
  • the practical inconsequence of the free will debate 7 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The deterministic view of free will always seems to cause such furore, forgetting that whether free will exists or not, this world is so int...
  • god without god 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] God without god. Hard to explain in a marginalia. But there is this ‘hard’ problem of consciousness (not conscious access). Why do we have e...
  • the long history of association between god and unusual smells 19 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The long history of association between God and unusual smells. some scholars believe that the English language suffered from the “cultural...
  • politics and spirituality are entangled 16 Jun 2025 [marginalium] for many of those who self-identified as “evangelical,” it is not just about devotion to a local church, but to a general orientation to the...
  • ai spiritual bliss attractor state (pdf) 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] AI spiritual bliss attractor state. Anthropic put one of its models (Claude 4 Opus) in a sandbox to chat to itself and: In 90-100% of inter...
  • the way of code 30 May 2025 [marginalium] THE WAY OF CODE: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. It’s a Rick Rubin project, so you know it’ll be interesting. Ripping off Lao Tzu in a play...
  • superstition in a godless state 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Superstition In A Godless State. On the rise of superstition in the notoriously anti-superstitious Chinese State. It’s hard not to see paral...
  • eurasian demonology 16 May 2025 [marginalium] On Eurasian Demonology. I wrote an article this week about a very expensive faux-neuroscience-based program that talks about your inner demo...
  • tales of the yucca man 8 May 2025 [marginalium] Tales Of The Yucca Man. This is a cryptid I’d never heard of. I love these.
  • strawson on panpsychism 8 May 2025 [marginalium] Strawson on panpsychism. I think panpsychism—the idea that everything is trivially ‘conscious’—is disappointing: Panpsychists say that, per...
  • the mystery of pope francis 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The mystery of Pope Francis. I have been watching the articles on him, wondering why I know much more about Pope Francis than other Popes. L...
  • pretty accurate ai generated dmt trips 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Pretty accurate AI generated DMT trips.
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...
  • mortuary practice and grief 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Mortuary Practice And Grief In addition, researchers have shown that ritualization helps us to feel more in control of life events and they...
  • on kahneman's assisted suicide 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] On Kahneman’s assisted suicide. WSJ, so need paywall buster. No particular angle here, but interesting to see people try to apply all the bi...
  • how the mormons conquered america 13 Mar 2025 [marginalium] How The Mormons Conquered America. I talk a lot about how cults seem like some kind of human default. Not destructive cults, but groups base...
  • is god a mushroom? 6 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Is God A Mushroom? A nice overview of the crazier and less crazy attempts to integrate the fact that psilocybin reliably induces spiritual e...
  • culture trumps evidence 20 Feb 2025 [marginalium] Culture trumps evidence: Beliefs may withstand the pressure of disconfirming events not because of the effectiveness of disson...

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