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Genius Loci: Guardian Spirit

Across cultures and eras, people have independently named the same phenomenon: the felt presence of a place or time that exceeds its physical form. The Romans called it genius loci, the spirit that animated landscapes, cities, homes, and crossroads. In Japan it appears as kami, in Celtic traditions as thin places — moments or locations […]

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At the Edge of Meaning

Nietzsche once suggested that metaphysics is about as useful to the struggles and uncertainties of embodied life as would be knowledge of the chemical composition of water to a boatman facing a storm. The force of the remark is not hostility to thought but a boundary placed around it. In conditions of living and existential […]