Tag: Becoming
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Know Thyself – Introduction
The Crisis of Identity and the Return to Being We live in an age where identity is everything, and nothing. It is affirmed, debated, deconstructed, weaponized, and endlessly remade. To belong or to be excluded, to find one’s “true self” or to reject the very idea of a fixed self; these now lie at the…
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The Unfolding of Truth – Appendix B
The Veil and the Real: Islam, Mysticism, and the Eternal Structure “He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.”— Qur’an, Surah 57:3 Islam and the Ontological Unity of Being At the heart of Islam is the affirmation: “There is no god but God.” This statement, while theological on the surface, also…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 9: Emanuele Severino – The Inevitable Resolution of the Contradiction
The Final Contradiction The journey of philosophy, from Parmenides to postmodernity, is marked by one recurring drama: the tension between Being and becoming. Parmenides declared: Being is; non-being is not. And yet, all of history, Platonic dualism, Christian creation, Buddhist emptiness, modern subjectivity, has wrestled with the appearance of change: These questions have driven metaphysics,…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 8: Modernity – From Substance to Subject and the Collapse of Metaphysics
The Turning Point: From the World to the Self With the collapse of the medieval synthesis, the philosophical gaze shifted dramatically. No longer anchored in substance metaphysics or a transcendent order, modernity turned inward, to the thinking subject as the new foundation. This was not merely a shift in emphasis. It marked the beginning of…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 7: Scholasticism and the Domestication of Metaphysics – The Final Attempt Before the Fall
The Afterglow of Revelation and the Return of Aristotle As the Middle Ages matured, a remarkable convergence took place: the truths of revelation were increasingly systematized through the lens of Greek metaphysics, particularly that of Aristotle. The fusion promised much: clarity, coherence, and the ability to defend faith through reason. Yet behind this synthesis lay…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 3: Plotinus – Emanation and the Return to Unity
If Plato glimpsed the realm of the eternal through the Forms, fixed, timeless, and shining with intelligible clarity, Plotinus deepens the vision. In the Enneads, he presents a metaphysical unfolding of reality from a single, ineffable source: the One. This One is beyond Being, beyond intellect, beyond any distinction. It is not a being among…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 2: Two Worlds: Plato and the Birth of Metaphysical Structure
Parmenides had shown that Being cannot not be. Change, then, must be illusion. But human experience contradicts this at every turn: we see birth, death, decay, motion, transformation. If thought must reject the evidence of the senses, how is truth to be known? It is Plato who takes up this task, and with him, philosophy…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 3: The Persistence of the Platonic Framework
From Augustine to Modernity: How Christianity Carried the Logic of Annihilation By the time Christianity emerged as the dominant religious force of the Roman Empire, the seeds of a deeper metaphysical tension had already been sown. The Christian proclamation of the eternal had fused with the Platonic suspicion of time, matter, and change. The result…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being – 2: The Infiltration of Platonism
How Greek Metaphysics Entered Christian Thought In its earliest centuries, Christianity encountered a world saturated with Greek philosophy. Among the many schools of thought that shaped late antiquity, none was more influential—or more seductive—than Platonism. Plato offered a majestic metaphysical vision: a realm of eternal, unchanging Forms—the true Being of which all sensible things were…
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The Final Non-Duality 6 – The Fulfillment of the Religious Quest: Eternal Structure and the Destiny of Thought
Beyond Paths, Beyond Goals — The Joy That Always Already Is Across the millennia, religion has been the most enduring expression of humanity’s longing for the infinite. Beneath its doctrines, rituals, and images, there pulses a single, unyielding question: What is the origin of all things, and what is our place within it? This question,…
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The Final Non-Duality 4 – Modern Non-Duality: Awareness, Realization, and the Trap of Sudden Awakening
The Self Does Not Awaken — It Eternally Is Modern non-duality, especially in the traditions emerging from Advaita Vedānta and later crystallized in the teachings of figures like Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and more recently Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille, offers what seems to be one of the most radical breaks from ordinary consciousness. The…
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The Final Non-Duality 3 – Christian Mysticism: Union, Darkness, and the Eternal God
From Ascent to Appearing: Rereading the Path of the Soul The mystical tradition in Christianity stands as one of the most powerful witnesses to the limits of conceptual thought and the longing of the soul for something that cannot be captured by language. From Dionysius the Areopagite to John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart,…
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The Final Non-Duality 2 – Buddhism: Emptiness and the Movement Beyond Suffering
The Eternal Structure Misread as Impermanence Among the spiritual paths of the world, Buddhism stands out for its analytical clarity and radical focus on the problem of suffering. Its foundation — the Four Noble Truths — begins not with metaphysical speculation but with existential urgency: dukkha, the suffering that characterizes life, and the promise of…
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The Final Non-Duality 1 – Advaita Vedānta: The Identity of Self and Brahman
The Eternal Truth Beyond the Path of Realization Among the world’s spiritual philosophies, few have exerted as profound an influence as Advaita Vedānta. With clarity and subtlety, it proclaims a truth that stands at the heart of the human search: that the Self (ātman) is not separate from the ultimate reality (Brahman), and that the…
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The Final Non-Duality: Rereading Spiritual Traditions in Light of Being — Introduction
The Spiritual Quest and the Hidden Contradiction Across the world’s spiritual traditions, from ancient Vedānta to contemporary non-dual teachers, we encounter the same longing: a desire to overcome division, to dissolve the sense of separation, to awaken into unity. Whether spoken of as enlightenment, liberation, realization, or union with God, this quest appears as humanity’s…
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The Last Dualism 3 – Awakening Without Becoming
The Contradiction of Enlightenment in the Light of Eternal Being The modern non-dual discourse is saturated with the language of awakening. One is said to awaken from illusion, from ego, from time, from the false self. This awakening is often described as a shift, a transformation, a sudden recognition, or the end of seeking. For…
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The Last Dualism 2 – The Myth of the Body’s Illusion
Plato’s Legacy and the Persistence of the Great Dualism In the midst of today’s non-dual revival, a strange contradiction persists. While the language of unity, presence, and wholeness is widespread, the body—this visible, touchable, vulnerable being—is often spoken of as an illusion, a veil, a mistake. In countless spiritual teachings, the body is subtly or…
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The Last Dualism 1 – What Is Truly Non-Dual?
Beyond the Confusion of Experience, Metaphor, and Ontology In recent decades, few terms have gained as much traction in spiritual and philosophical circles as “non-duality.” From Eastern teachings like Advaita Vedanta and Dzogchen, to Western spiritual movements, therapy sessions, and even casual Instagram posts, the term has become a kind of shorthand for ultimate truth,…
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The Structure of Madness
Madness is the belief in what is not. The common image of the madman who is Napoleon is crude, but correct: he affirms nothingness. Pursue this logic, and all are mad. We are mad in our faith that will originates action, that “if” governs “then.” This is humanity’s primordial error. The Faith in Contingency This…
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Beyond Materialism & Idealism 3: The Unveiling of the Necessary
After exposing the contradictions of materialism and idealism, we arrive at a crucial crossroads. Both worldviews, despite their opposing stances, share a fundamental flaw: they are rooted in the concept of becoming—the notion that reality either comes into being or evolves through mental processes. The only consistent and coherent alternative is the recognition of being…
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Beyond Materialism & Idealism 2: Why Idealism Also Fails – The Limits of Mind as Reality
Materialism collapses under the weight of its own contradiction: it insists that things come into and out of existence, yet it offers no justification for this assumption. Idealism, often considered its intellectual counterpoint, seeks to overcome materialism’s limitations by placing mind or consciousness at the center of reality. However, despite its valuable critiques, idealism ultimately…
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Beyond Materialism and Idealism: The Search for the Real
For centuries, materialism has shaped the modern worldview. It presents itself as a sober, evidence-based approach to reality—asserting that all things, including thought and consciousness, emerge from material processes and ultimately vanish into nothingness. Yet beneath its claims of objectivity lies an unexamined assumption: that things come into being and cease to be. This belief…
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Identity 2: The Fragmentation of the Individual – Forces Dividing the Self in Contemporary Society
In the previous article, we uncovered identity as necessary (unchangeable and eternally true—it simply is) and eternal, hidden by misconceptions tied to time, nihilism, and cultural emphasis on becoming. Now, we turn to the fragmentation of the individual—how and why our true identity is obscured and divided in today’s world. Modern society, with its rapid…
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Parmenides, the East, and the Question of Illusion
Across cultures and millennia, human thought has struggled with the same enigma: if Being is eternal, how do we account for the change and disappearance that fill our experience? Parmenides in Greece and the sages of the East each intuited the permanence of Being, yet consigned the world of appearances to illusion. Their insight was…
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Babylon and the Apparatus: Beyond the Civilization of Technique
The Great City as a Timeless Symbol When Toynbee and Spengler spoke of the megalopolis, they described a concrete historical reality: cities that grow until they devour the life of a culture. But long before them, this same reality had already been intuited in symbols and myths. The Book of Revelation names it “Babylon the…
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City, Country, and Destiny: From Toynbee and Spengler to Severino
The Ancient Tension Civilizations have always carried within them a tension between city and countryside. The countryside ties human life to the soil, the rhythms of nature, the continuity of community and tradition. The city concentrates wealth, intellect, and power, but often at the cost of uprootedness, alienation, and imbalance. This polarity has become particularly…
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Mind & Heart – 1: The Existential Crisis and the Collapse of Meaning
The Necessity of Nihilism’s Appearance The contemporary crisis in mental health is not merely a matter of personal struggles or biochemical imbalances. The rising prevalence of depression, anxiety, and despair coincides with the dissolution of once-dominant narratives of meaning. This is no accident but part of a necessary unfolding. The decline of religious, philosophical, and…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 4 – The NDE as an Unveiling—Death and the Fracturing of Time
The Near-Death Experience: A Radical Disruption of Ordinary Perception Near-death experiences (NDEs) represent one of the most profound disruptions of conditioned thought and perception. Those who undergo them often report a sudden detachment from their physical body, a feeling of weightlessness, an all-encompassing light, or encounters with deceased loved ones and transcendent beings. More importantly,…
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Beyond Left and Right – Article 10: The Eternal City – Towards a Civilization Aligned with the Structure of Being
Western civilization, having undergone profound crises of meaning, has long been caught in the oscillation between competing ideologies—none of which have been able to provide a stable foundation. The failure of both progressive deconstructionism and reactionary restorationism points to a deeper issue: the absence of a necessary and indestructible foundation upon which civilization can rest.…
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🗂️ Updated Glossary & Key Concepts
Understanding the Eternal Structure of Being in Light of Severino’s Thought This glossary introduces essential terms and distinctions for readers encountering the philosophy of Emanuele Severino and the paradigm of the eternal structure of Being. Each term is presented in accessible language, followed by clarifying analogies or diagrams where helpful. 1. Contraddizione C Definition: The…
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It Is What It Is 