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		<title>Again, On Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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The &#8220;displacement of attention&#8221; of which Bergson speaks, as in the case of Merleau-Ponty’s “phenomenological reduction”, is in fact a conversion: a radical rupture with regard to the state of unconsciousness in which man normally lives. The utilitarian perception we have of the world, in everyday life, in fact hides from us the world qua [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4899&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching René Girard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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I found this interesting discussion in my meanderings around the Internet. Although I really dislike Bouyer, I will give him the benefit of the doubt on his reflections on Girard&#8217;s work on sacrifice, violence, and mimesis. Reading Girard is an intellectual project I have set out for myself next year, if only to clear up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4859&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on alchemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Mercury was, for them, the seminal essence of a god who (pro-)creates the universe sexually; indeed the origin myth of mercury tells us that quicksilver first arose when Siva spilled his seed at the end of a long bout of lovemaking with his consort, the goddess Parvati. This seed once spilled, became polluted through its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4616&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Church as Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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It has been two and a half years since I posted the following essay, but I still think it makes some good points. While I have expanded quite a bit on what I think the answer is, I think I conceive of the problem in similar terms: a mechanistic and technocratic drive in man that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4337&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New to the blogroll</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/new-to-the-blogroll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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From The Lonely Goth&#8217;s Guide to Independent Catholicism
Found this essay, on fairies in early modern Scotland, from of all people, David B. Hart, and from all places, First Things. Seriously, I like what they are smoking over there, because this essay is completely jaw-dropping. Maybe the world is finally coming around after all.
Secondly, a comment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4546&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting quote about God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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What is it that motivates today&#8217;s Christians? It really is not God&#8230; It is rather their egos that motivate them, their social diversity, their worship, their relationship to Revelation, and the restoration of the unity of the Church. All of these are indeed important aspects, but they will not become stale only so long as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4529&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On superficiality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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If you can&#8217;t be in the age you love, love the one you&#8217;re in
One of my favorite Nietzsche aphorisms is one I have cited many times before in my essays, and it is the following:
Oh, those Greeks! They knew about living: for this, it is necessary to stop courageously at the surface, at the drapery, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4415&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Window &#8211; Roof &#8211; House &#8211; Soul</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/window-roof-house-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Michael Carroll in his book, Veiled Threats, tells of the following:
Gian Matteo Gilberti, bishop of Verona&#8230; instructed his priests to root out superstition, and singled out in particular &#8220;the practice of uncovering the roof so that the soul [of the dead] can get out, something that suggests the soul could be held back by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4349&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on the microcosm</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/more-on-the-microcosm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Assuredly, man is a small world in such a way that he is also a part of the large world. Now, a whole shines forth in all its parts, since a part is a part of a whole. Just as the whole man shines forth in the hand, which is proportioned to the whole, but, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4288&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The story of the decline of many things</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/the-story-of-the-decline-of-many-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Thus a Muslim holy man has said: &#8220;in the beginning Sufism was a reality without a name, today it is a name without reality.&#8221;
-Jean Borella, The Secret of the Christian Way
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