Agape what-now?
Agape (ἀγάπη) is the Greek term denoting love without condition, that reciprocal love betwixt humankind and the divine. As differentiated from both love for friend (philia) & for lover (eros)… as well as from love for oneself (philautia - not to be confused with fellatio).
So you’ve heard of Carpe Diem, “seize the day”. This substack hopes to help you “love the day”.
How?
By reflecting the marriage of Cupid & Psyche - after she, the mind (or soul), overcame Sisyphean tasks to come full circle in reuniting with him, the heart.
By the reconciling of Brain and the Beyond, attending intimately to the mechanics, yet never assuming the solving (as if an equation) of the Mysteries.
That is, by crystallising curiosity about the uncanny side of the coin.
But doing so via celebrating the transpersonal (that spiritual stuff), while not forsaking the interpersonal. As well as being rooted in the non-personal (that sciencey stuff), while not forbidding the intrapersonal.
Ok. But how exactly?
My posts (approx. 1/wk) will constitute a bit of a variety show of the following . . .
More academic postings regarding: experimentations with journal publications, summaries of others’ research, my deconstructions of popular articles and documentaries, notes on books I’ve read, notes on conferences I’ve attended, write-ups of talks I’ve given, insights I’ve garnered through my own research, practice-runs of book chapters-to-be
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More personal postings appertaining to: penetrations into my own psychological foibles, contemplations on grief, exegeses on my own drug-induced states, the stranger of edges of my dreaming mind
But what is the genre of said eclecticism should you expect?
Again, a tad of a menagerie. At least the scholarly content will likely pivot around my trinitarian interests of. . .
Psychedelics.
Near-death experiences.
…and not just a spattering of UAP studies.
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Often neatly nestled within the grounding of the Neurosciences.
As for the non-scholarly material, your guess is as good as mine. I trust in the fairly reliable proverbial lightning to zap my axons into some hypergraphic paroxysm about the order of the day!
And expect much of all the above to be in podcast form also! Eventually & hopefully honoured by some other credential-encrusted guests.
Oo. Please also check out my other outlets too :)
Medium @ Psi-Fi Channel - for analyses of sci-fi film & TV from a spiritual perspective, and my poetry
Youtube @ NeuroSoul_22.0 - for filmed talks/interviews of mine, or other mini creative films
Instagram @ darketyp3 - for promo of my talks & journal articles… & a smidge of singing
Or my Researchgate for my journal articles & Academia for my conference proceedings/talk abstracts
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