From the Archives: Part 51 of The Self and its Sources

Raising the coefficient of illusion to the next power.

From the Archives: Part 50 of The Self and its Sources

A short overview of Virginia Woolf’s life and the Bloomsbury group. Her novel, the Waves, provides an insight into the social and psychological drama of the modern world. It is based on the experience largely that she had while at the center of this literary circle called the Bloomsbury group.

From the Archives: Part 49 of The Self and its Sources

Among the symptoms of the demise of systems of sacred transcendence: failure to comprehend the modern crisis, failure to appreciate the Biblical role in the cause and cure for this crisis.
René Girard discovered this process by reading novels.

From the Archives: Part 48 of The Self and its Sources

Simone Weil:

“Wherever the virtue of supernatural light is absent everything is obedient to mechanical laws as blind and exact as the laws of gravitation.”

From the Archives: Part 47 of The Self and its Sources

Max Picard notices about the modern world, that the first person pronoun is overused.