Ken Wheeler runs the YouTube channel " Theoria Apophasis" with over 300k subscribers. He is a philosopher, translator, photographer, and prepper, among other things. His knowledge of metaphysics, in the true sense of the word, is unparalleled in the 21st century. He seamlessly unifies the fields of physics, cosmology, logic, and monistic apophatic metaphysics into a cohesive worldview based on ancient and perennial wisdom. Ken wrote the introduction to our first book, MONAD, and we asked him to grace us with an interview.
How did you discover Neoplatonism?
I saw it clearly at a very young pre-teen age and immediately knew its fundamental, outright truth. I was reading Plotinus at a very young age. I don’t see that I ever discovered it, strange as that may sound.
How did you get into running a YouTube page, and what has that been like for you?
I started making videos, not because I have the voice or the looks or the personality, because I have NONE of this… rather due to the anti-intellectualism, ineptitude, ignorance of the mass of everything I saw being posted on YouTube. The fools, the glitter-men, etc. I initially posted a swath of materials, including quotes, logic, citation, etc., against the no-soul nihilism of pseudo-buddhism that crawls through YouTube and the web in general. It has no basis in doctrine, logic, or otherwise. I wanted to post the facts, citations, and logic against this swath of ignorance.
Can you give us the backstory on your relationship with the Coomaraswamy family?
I made friends with his son, Rama P. Coomarswamy, who was a heart surgeon. He told me I had the rights to give his father's works out anyway I could, so long as I never charged for them in so doing, and I have done just that. We talked on the phone many times, but I had not heard from him in several months, and I found out he passed from this world, alas.
What was your time in Russia like?
I cannot talk about the work I did there; however, it was about 95% miserable, 4% dangerous, and 1% “I cannot wait to go home.” It's very hard to adjust to the ineptitude of a Socialist system designed by its nature to fail and disgust. It's one place I very much look forward to never returning to. I've reached my 500% threshold of stress and misery in this life… I beg the universe to walk on the beaches of the Bahamas and take some rest.
How many languages do you speak? Do you have any tips for someone trying to learn a new language?
English, Russian, very rusty Latin, Pali, Romanized Sanskrit (to read the Vedas and Upanishads, etc.), and Greek. I had a few years of German and French only to fulfill my education quota for classes, since I find learning languages so very easy. The only REAL tip to learning a language is the same way a child learns their 1st language, you hear a word, and you have a mental picture of what that word means. My Russian language professors said I was an outstanding prodigy at learning languages, not that this has helped my life much; I’d rather have been a prodigy in the stock market.
As to HOW to learn a new language, most people hear a word, then say in their mind “well that word in English means X,” and this causes a traffic jam in the brain of ALL people and makes learning a language that flows naturally through the brain, utterly impossible. It's disgusting that this fact is not taught in language learning classes.
Can you briefly summarize Aether theory?
Well, there are endless theories of the Aether, almost all of which are irrational and defunct nonsense. Gas-analogy Aether, the idea that space = Aether, and other such mental ineptitudes.
The Ether is pure potential. Non-Cartesian counterspatial inertia. The essence of all field modalities. The attribute of the Ether is the Aoristos Dyad (so-called indefinite dyad or attribute of the Absolute). Only two foundations of cosmic foundations have ever been postulated; one being the Ether, the other an impossibility for which observed phenomena say is false, that being Atomism. Ether is the antecedent subject we loosely call energy, or pure potential from which, by which, and of which all things are possible. All matter and atoms are compounded Ether condensates, or ultra-high energy light compounds.
The Aether, in short, is non-Cartesian pure potential. The Aether is NOT space, in fact, space is the negative image, or “shadow” of the Aether, i.e., pure impotence OF the Aether.
“Light is a longitudinal disturbance in the Ether…Light is a ‘sound wave’ in the Ether” -Tesla
“It is inconceivable that inanimate Matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact. Gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance thru a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and course may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into (for) it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.” - Sir Isaac Newton, Letters to Bentley, 1692.
“The single greatest fear you can instill in any relativist or materialist is to ask them to define a field, gravitational, magnetic, dielectric, or electric. The thousand-pound gorilla in the room of relativity is that action, action-reactions, and atomic operations are mediated by and through a field which no relativist can or dare define. All fields are the Ether. All fields are modalities of the Ether without exception. Any conception of action at a distance without an Ether field as mediator is illogical, senseless, and impossible.” – Ken W.
Why do you think the current scientific paradigm refuses to consider Aether theory?
Modern so-called science is Atomism, a heretical materialism based nonsense. No branch of “science” has defined the term FIELD (Khora, in Greek). Nor can Atomism (the cult of bumping particles) explain instant action at a distance (IAAD).
Atomism is a pseudo-religious belief system of materialism/particle-hierarchy born from Democritus and some others since ancient times. Current belief systems of unreality, such as relativity and quantum are just rebadged Atomism. Atomism at its core is pure base and vile materialism, which both ignores and rejects to define all which is, that being the terms field and energy. Likewise, the rejection of Atomism is not the rejection of particles in the atomic nucleus, rather the irrational belief system of Atomism which cannot define a field, or energy, and assumes all reactions are either colliding particles or ‘warped space-time,’ of which this position is both illogical, impossible, senseless and not supported in observed phenomenon. Only two foundations of ultimate reality have ever been forwarded since the dawn of time; one being the Ether, the other being Atomism.
Rational physics exists only due to metaphysical principles, and as such, Atomism/Materialism is an intellectually bankrupt belief system lacking in wisdom, common sense, and utterly rejected by the full spectrum all of history’s persons of wisdom. Also, Atomism/Quantum is humorously called the ‘cult of bumping particles,’ and concept reification fallacies such as (loved by Hollywood and science fiction) ‘curved/warped space-time.’ Nikola Tesla vociferously spoke against this insanity at great length.
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” – N. Tesla
Quantum and Relativity are both atomistic belief systems based upon the premise of quantification of things lacking quantity, such as fields, light, and energy. Quantum overstepped its bounds early in its creation to pervert fields and energy into particles as against natural order, logic, and common sense. Quantum at its base is surreal mysticism, completely irrational and unrepresentative of field mechanics. Its chief priests have insanely yet intelligently constructed a belief system in which they themselves alone are the filter of and for answers (the academic consensus), which are ever occluded behind a veil of irrational nonsense to which one must pay them to explain and define. Quantum has much in common with bizarre cults like Scientology and others. Science fiction and Hollywood, unsurprisingly, have found a gold mine of insane yet superficially plausible fodder within Quantum for creating fictional books, movies, and TV shows.
Most of the religion of quantum sprung from Einstein and his adherents as to the nature of light (‘light quantity’ or ‘das lichtquant’) and radical notions of a “light particle” or ‘photon,' in 1917 as introduced by Leonard Troland (psychologist and occultist who studied telepathy and other fringe topics). Quantum is not connected to Nature, reality, or field theory, except in the minds of its believers, who are Atomists.
Tesla, Faraday, Steinmetz, Heaviside, and Maxwell never used the term quantum since it has no association whatsoever with fields, field theory, magnetism, electricity, or the dielectric. Rational physics and Quantum (Atomism) are two wholly separate entities.
Fundamentally, Quantum is a radically insane belief system infinitely closer to science fiction absurdities than natural and logical explanations as defined by Platonists or even that of Aristotle. The very term Quantum denotes and connotes nothing whatsoever in the natural world at all; further still, it in no way attempts to explain nature, and is a radical affront to Ockham’s razor and common sense. Quantum, in short, is hokum and intellectual obfuscation used by academia to perpetuate employment to those who are intellectually bereft of insight and intellect.
Relativity is still a meager theory after all these decades, and mostly disproven; it attempted to supplant the Ether by ignorant reification of space and time as actual entities which are malleable and influence matter and fields (not that Relativity ever defined a field). Space has no properties (Tesla likewise said this), and time is merely a measure; neither of these can be warped or act upon other things, nor is space a terminal for any field modality.
“Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles, and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.” N. Tesla
“Nothing is more fantastical and a travesty of how nature works than is quantum theory. Its very basis has no relationship to reality.” – W. Russell
“Where common sense and intuition failed, we had to create a new form of intuition based upon abstract mathematics. When common sense fails, we must create uncommon sense.” -Leonard Susskind, professor of theoretical physics, and high priest of Quantum
Could implementing Aether theory into our current scientific understanding help us technologically advance?
Explaining ANY or ALL of the Universe without the Aether is utterly impossible. There is nothing to implement, only to shine a light on as against the myopic stupidity of modern-day relativity and other Atomistic navel-gazers.
Can you briefly summarize original "Buddhism" and contrast it with the later variants, such as Vajrayana or Mahayana?
The term “Buddhism” is very, very late. The only time Gotama called his teachings anything was SN 5.4 “Brahmayana,” meaning “path to the Absolute.” Mahayanism has many variants, even early on at the 1st century C.E., and was a populist hybrid to appeal to the lesser intellects and the “do good deeds” people, which alas is Kammayana, or the path of actions/deeds, which is inverse to the quest of liberation via wisdom. Original so-called “Buddhism” is 100% unoriginal. Everything of the same was an attempt to re-establish the root of Vedanta and the liberation ontology and the simplex philosophy of the same. Simply, a liberation ontology rooted in wisdom.
“Buddhism is MOST famous today for everything it originally never taught”- Dr A.K.. Coomaraswamy
A modern “Buddhist” is like a Christian who has never read the bible and doesn’t believe in Jesus. Truthfully so. They, most of them, find discussing Buddhist doctrine and logic repugnant. I hate to say this, but it's true, and I have debated MORE “Buddhists” than anyone on this Earth, of which I can tell you this statement is no hyperbole. Decades of the same.
What does Samyak Sambodhi mean in “simple” terms? Do you believe anyone since the Buddha has achieved that? Actualized the permanent ending of suffering?
A Buddha is NEVER a psycho-physical eating pooping being, as such 100% of “Buddha statues” are both anti-doctrinal, heretical, illogical and absurd. The term is a spiritual appellation applied to the transcendent soul. The same reason is why the “Buddha” in all ancient carvings is either an empty seat or a pillar of fire, never a living being.
“How is it that one is called a ‘Buddha?’...gnosis that the mind/will (citta) is purified (visuddham)…such is how one is deemed a ‘Buddha.’” [MN 2.144]
A Tathagata [gone unto tat [Brahman] Br-Ary. V.IV.I], who is in possession of ‘anuttara samma 'sambodhi,’ is a Samma'sambuddha. Samma' does not, as commonly misconceived, mean ‘right’ but is an ancient Vedic term denoting coherency of mind (citta) with itself, which is equal to Brahman, or the imminent Soul made become through wisdom and Jhanic progression by the sage. [AN 2.29] “Within the sovereign mind one is established in the supreme Soul.” [DN 2.83] “Supremely within fixation of mind (supatitthitacitto), is anuttara samma'sambodhi (unexcelled coherency of awakened mind [sanskrit: anuttara-samyak-sambodhi]).
Samma': The resting of the mind (citta) steadfastly upon its Goal (viz. Brahman) after having detached itself from manifold sense objects (i.e., corporeality), by continually observing their defects (through the Jhanas), is called Sama (Pali: Samma') or calmness; [#22 Shankaracharya Vivekachudamani]. In brief, a Samma 'sambuddha is one in whom the mind no longer identifies itself with phenomenal attributes (khandhas, aggregates), with psycho-physicality (namo-rupa, anatta), but with itself (svayambhu or Self-nature [Pati. 1.174]) alone; therein attaining immortality [SN 5.8] (amata), so deemed by the Buddha as “having made refuge in the Soul” (Saranamattano [DN 2.120]).
How can the desire for a personal relationship with God be reconciled with an apophatic metaphysic?
No such creature exists. The inverse fallacy of identification wrongly assumes, since as above, so below, THEREFORE TOO as here, below (=BEING) therefore TOO above (is Being). All sentience is a compound; that which is most simple, the One, cannot be Being/God/Sentient-being. The only relationship is wisdom, which is Self (NOT mere self!) Proximity, which is by definition fulfillment, but removal of the modulation of avijja/agnosis, which DO NOT MEAN “ignorance,” however, all translations of these terms wrongly translate the same as such. A+GNOSIS is modulated ‘light,’ ie, illumination. Principle-Attribute, the same as the 1 and the 1 of the first two digits of the Fibonacci sequence.
What is Theurgy, and how can it be practiced?
Theurgy is retroduction, also called Mneme, Apophaticism, Neti Neti, Via Negativa, Jhana, Sati, Samadhi, Anamnesis, etc. Theurgy is disobjectification from all objective identity, which is perpetuated and fostered by and through primordial agnosis/avijja. Theurgy is NOT a ‘practice,’ that is MELETE (practices and rituals). True theurgy is MNEME, or “Platonic recollection,” the de-modulation of the root uncaused cause of embodiment.
"The well-centered mind/will (citta) is the path for attainment of Brahman." [SN 4.118]
“This is immortality, that being the liberated mind/will (citta) which does not cling (after anything)” [MN 2.265]
“This said: ‘the liberated mind/will (citta) which does not cling’ means Nibbana” [MN2-Att. 4.68]
There is absolutely no Greek, Pali, or Sanskrit term meaning “meditation” (not Dhyana, nor Sati, Samadhi, Epistrophe, Anamnesis, Apophaticism, Vipassana, nor Jhana), please see this diagram below. Nearly 100% of the Western world engages in catalepsy and mind-crushing mind exercises of oblivion fantasies (though subliminally so in most cases) wherein they employ thinking and thought to presumably get out of a thinking prison, which is insanity personified. All those ‘doing meditation’ (see above, since meditation has NO DEFINITION WHATSOEVER!) are engaging in Melete, rituals and practices (Zazen, etc.). This ritualistic practice of mental “turd polishing” cannot logically bear any fruit of wisdom or the liberation commanded thereof.
Mneme, however, is the “correct Muse;” it is apophaticism and extraction, Platonic recollection (anamnesis), the neti neti and via negativa methodology connected to both wisdom and liberation (see diagram below). This is the difference between centering (melete) and DE-centering (Mneme). The burning away (Jhana) of agnosis which embroils the mind (citta, NOT CONSCIOUSNESS!) with and as this corporeal being which is na me so atta (=NOT THE SOUL).
Melete is con-centration, collection, aimed at the empirical, catalepsy, turning into the body. Ritual, thought and practice.
Mneme is theurgy, dis-objectification, is DE-centration (with phenomena), recollection, epistrophe, synthesis, turning away from the body. Epistrophe, anamnesis and Jhana.
The original ancient three Muses: Aoide (Ἀοιδή), Melete (Μελέτη), and Mneme (Μνήμη); the three original Boeotian (region of Greece) Muses: Aoide (Ἀοιδή), is the Muse of magic song, story, but deeper as meaning the Vac, or logos.
Mneme (Μνήμη), literally meaning memory, recollection, however metaphysical recollection (sati), not conventional recollection, rather as meaning anmnesis (apophatic theurgy). Mneme, or Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη), daughter of Uranus and Gaia, mother of all the Muses. Mneme is the bearer of the light of recollection.
Collectively, these are the triad of: Logos (Aoide), Ritual/Rite (Melete), and (ending in liberation) divine Recollection (Mneme).
Also: The Word (Aoide), the Rite/Ritual (Melete), and the (Mneme) Divine Union (theurgy). Or also: The One (Aoide), its imitation (Melete), or actions (doing good), and and Reunion with the One (Mneme, Anamnesis).
Mneme! True ‘practice’ is not ritual nor rite (worldly practice) rather is rooted in Mneme, Melete is the ritual and practices of worldlings, of religionists. The very term meditation is not that which is commanded by or for liberation by either Plotinus, Advaita, Gotama, the Upanishads, Plato, Proclus, Syrianus, Iamblichus, etc.
Melete (Μελέτη), of which the Latin Bible then translated melete into meditatio (i.e., meditation). Meditation (medito, meditatio), empirical mental machination, or thought. Centered and vectored entirely in the existential psycho-physical (Mano ca vinnanam, thought and consciousness of, within, involving more thought). The term meditation literally means “mental (existential, thought, and conscious-machination) cogitation (empirical agitation).”
Medito: quite literally “minding (of the mind) in, by, with, thought of the mind;” Mentation, thought, (Mano ca vinnanam). Sanskrit midiur "I judge, estimate;" Avestan vi-mad- "physician;" Greek mēdomai "be mindful of, ritual or practice of minding after" medesthai "think about," medein "to rule," medon "ruler;" Latin meditari "think or reflect on, consider," modus "measure, manner," modestus "moderate," modernus "modern," mederi "to heal, give medical attention to, cure;" Irish miduir "judge;" Welsh meddwl "mind, thinking;" Gothic miton, Old English metan "to measure out."
Latin meditatus, past participle of meditari "to meditate, think over, reflect, consider," frequentative form root “take appropriate measures," "to plan in the mind," also "to employ the mind in thought or contemplation," especially in a religious way. Related: Meditated, meditating.
Humanity has always seen things upside down and backwards, such is the nature of the vision gifted them (rather cursed) by materialism, empiricism, and Atomism. Quite literally and with a perfection of irony, those performing the rite of “meditation” are literally and figuratively worshiping the wrong Muse, or principle thereof. All religion is secularized metaphysics and is known by and through its practices (=religion), and or rituals, i.e., the Muse Melete, as meant practice or ritual.
The practice of observing rituals, and the ritual of observing practices (literally insanity personified). To be “mindful, minding, concentrating” is both rite and ritual, likewise is both existential and in no way directed at liberation and apophatic extraction of the nous/citta/spirit from falsely identifying itself with the psycho-physical.
That which has a beginning in time has an end in time. Anything and all things (literally phenomena = consubstantiality) of matter, of mass, and of this world, are consubstantial and cannot be a source or object (no object can be a point of liberation by definition) of transcendence or liberation.
The Pure Absolute is both itself the Principle, and its attribute, agnosis; just like light and illumination are not two things, rather a holos (singular unified whole). The division of the Divine, the One by its own attribute, leads to all lower consubstantiality; the removal of the same, such that the One is directed at Itself, is liberation by definition. This primordial agnosis is the open door through which, by which, and due to which that which the One, is temporalized and weighed down in earthly animation of existential life, and its resultant antinomies (birth and death, pleasure and pain, etc).
A stained glass window is a fine example of consubstantiality, such that the white light or sunlight behind same, analogous to the Absolute, is not self-similar, i.e. is typical incoherent light radiation, such that it takes upon itself the quality in mixing with and filtration thru different colored pieces of glass, be they blue, red, yellow etc. These colored glass pieces and beautiful colors are akin to life itself, which is the consubstantial construct of matter and spirit together, making life. They, life, and the colors through the stained glass, however, have a beginning in time and necessitatively an end in time, and any idea of there being a refuge in the same, or being the source of liberation or emancipation, is insane, illogical, absurd, and worse. To say the word time is no different than saying the word phenomena; such that to say of anything “beginning in time” is no different than calling anything so deemed, “mere phenomena.” Any notion of freedom, liberation, or immortality in phenomena is a fool's fantasy.
These red, blue, green, etc. lights are not things in themselves; they’re composites of two or more things, in this case, the glass and the light behind same. Death is not the opposite of life; it’s the ending of life. To say there is no death is ultimately true, though of course existentially confusing to the common-minded person, so brim full of ignorance. There is no more purification of anything involving life than there is in declaring purified or liberated phenomena.
What is incommensurable geometry, and what does it reveal about the world? Why would Plato stress the study of geometry?
One cannot understand the field incommensurability of the “magnet” without grasping the magneto-dielectric hyperboloid at a fundamental level within your mind. Inertia cannot be measured by means of mass calculations; this very premise is the basis for every flaw of relativity, quantum, mathematical Atomism, and non-Euclidean pseudo-physics.
Being incommensurable or without measure is a metaphysical cornerstone and the “greatest secret of the Pythagoreans,” explaining the same requires many fundamental primers to already be present in the readers mind, however in short the “uncountable/without measure” extrinsic attribute of the Absolute which is self-similar to the One is its attribute and likewise is incommensurable in manifestation of self-similarity and whereby beauty, divine proportionality and simplicity can and only by means of incommensurability, be manifest.
The perfect (the only perfect in fact) geometry of incommensurability is seen below, itself in triplicate forms the Pythagorean pentagram, and this is likewise the geometry for the water molecule which is the dipole antenna for life to exist. The incommensurable geometry of self-similar (or fractal) manifestation is the proportion and ratio of the One (Agathon) to itself, just as light is to illumination, its attribute.
In the case of the incommensurable/aoristos, just as in the case of polarity as indicated in diagrams of the magnet below, there is no place or location in a bar magnet that contains a north “pole” or a south. If a bar magnet were cut a billion times along its polaric run, even a trillion times, even down to the atomic, you could not isolate a northern or southern “pole;” this polarity is a field pressure abstraction (it is incommensurable), is unreal, just so too is illumination by metaphysical definition, as well as willing (which is syn. to the aoristos dyad, to tolma, etc.). The point being is that we cannot philosophically, logically, rationally give definition or mark to what is without coordination (a+horismo, a+oristos). Only two things can be marked, one being the unreal masses and magnitudes which are measured and reckoned by empirical math, and the unmarkable but abductively and rationally known Unity or Principle of all, the whole.
By application of wisdom, knowing that cutting a magnet in half will not isolate either pole, rather create two new magnets, tells a lot to someone with their mind turned on. This means that polarity is a mirage with no locus; there is no “north here, and south over there," rather polarity is the expression of force itself, which is a 3-dimensional vector, the center of which is the plane of inertia or counterspace. This incommensurability in and of the magnet reveals a point non-specific wholeness found in each and every section or part. There is no polarity located at “X” or “Y," the whole is like its parts, and vice versa. This is also called the holographic paradigm. But this holographic paradigm found in perfect proportionality (such as the Pythagorean triangle below) is the cosmic incommensurability of perfection, of life, and the metaphysical ‘mirror’ of totality; and this is why the fact of incommensurability is the “greatest secret of the Pythagoreans."
The whole is found complete in the parts, and the parts contain the image of the whole; this holographic paradigm, this incommensurable nature of the conjugate fields to each other is the ‘secret of incommensurability,’ however, even this explanation is abstruse and hard to understand for most. Incommensurability is the foundation of Emanationism (i.e., Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism), and as such that it represents the true image of nature and the One, it cannot be of any surprise that magnetism follows this field incommensurability with simplex perfection without deviation. It is a mathematical fact that Phi is to 1 as 1 is to Phi; however, while true, to a myopic mathematician, this means nothing, but for those with insight, this reveals a lot.
Incommensurability is the ONE and ONLY true “secret” of the Pythagoreans; likewise, evidence for this exists in abstruse quotes.
Does the rejection of first cause or creationism imply the world is eternal or has, in some sense, always been around existing prior to space and time?
There is no first cause in Emanationism (Proodos), this nonsense idea is within the realm of Creationistic religions and their ‘Gods’. The idea of original sin, or first cause is irrational, absurd, illogical and utterly rejected by the Pythagoreans, Platonists, etc.
The universe rolls out and back up again in an endless cycle, to say eternal has no meaning, since this is a reference to time which is a measure, not a thing in Natural Order. Space is a shadow of potential, and time does not exist but only conventionally to beings and masses and magnitudes. All ancient truth says time is the number 4, of which said number means “death” in many Asian languages since all that partakes of time is subject to death. Four is likewise the ONLY number NOT found in the first five digits of the Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5).
Time is the measure of magnitudes and ultimately does not exist at all, however conventionally it does for beings of mass and magnitude who live in a ‘sea of time’. Time is the number 4 so deemed by all ancient masters of wisdom and cosmic mechanics; likewise the number 4 is the only number missing in the Fibonacci sequence of numbers between 1 and 5 (11235). Magnetism is the principle by which all mass/atoms have magnitude, and therefore partake of time, and likewise must therefore partake of phase, motion, and lag.
Time, like space, is the attributional byproduct of magnitude and its measure. Time is comprised of past and future alone, which are wholly phantasms of perception and memory. The present moment or ‘now’ is not part of time whatsoever since nobody can stand in a moment of the same waters of flowing time nor can time be still (a moment) or ‘now’ (Zeno’s paradox). Humans desire or are harmed by recollection of the past, and either desire, fear, hope or more for the future which does not exist. Since past and future are unreal, and time cannot be ‘now,' time itself declares that it is nothing whatsoever. The laughable fact that Relativity and the religion of Quantum have reified nothing, that being time, is both laughable and a sad commentary upon human understanding of this concept.
Time, in analogy, only has meaning upon the hands of the clock, but at the axle pin at the base of the second, minute, and hour hand, time has no meaning at all. Time in short is the offspring and necessitated phenomena of magnetism and its byproduct being mass and magnitude. The aggrandizement of time by empirical beings says little of time, but a lot about the nature of empirical existence.
How do we proceed in a world void of telos or meaning? Does it raise a lot of philosophical issues?
Like ‘emptiness’ (which does not exist), a “world without meaning” cannot exist; everything follows Natural Order, all sentient beings (demons, the ignorant, etc.) that fall outside of this are destroyed, are wiped from existence.
There are no “philosophical issues;” see correctly, the center MUST and ALWAYS holds true. Philo-sophia, or the love of wisdom, i.e., the very Soul (attan, atman nous, citta, etc.), is the transcendent principle that cannot ever be escaped or dodged, as such all meaning of Natural Order has its center of the very Self, not the existential self to which most confuse one self (psycho-physical) with the Self (attan, atman, soul, etc.)
WAVES, SPACE, TIME, SHADOWS, EMPTINESS, CHAOS, QUANTUM, NEGATIVE CHARGE, FORCE, ELECTRONS, PHOTONS, VIRTUAL-PHOTONS. MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS.
These many things are reified concepts that do not exist in nature. They are not principles in most cases regarding these terms, but rather are qualifiers OF something else. Waves do not exist, waves are what things DO, not what things ARE. Space has no properties, nor is it a thing whatsoever. Time is a measure, and absolutely does not exist. Emptiness is a qualifier of something being empty of something else. There is no such thing as emptiness. Chaos is a radical concept with no basis in nature. Quantum (see term defined below). There is no such thing as a negative charge; rather as meaning discharge. Force of what by what upon what? Force is an action done, not a thing whatsoever. Electron particles do not exist, nor do photons. Virtual photons are a whole-cloth, arbitrary mental concept with no more validity than unicorns and dragons.
Do you have a framework for knowledge/epistemology? How do we determine what is True?
Retroduction is the ancient lost art of truth-seeking, not objective or personal “truth," but the foundation of all reality. The substrate of all being, and antecedent to superficial phenomena.
What does your personal spiritual practice or search for wisdom and Self-proximity look like? Is there a daily practice or any kind of routine/discipline?
I have no ‘faith’ or ‘belief’ in “personal practices," meaning “UNIQUE” or subjective; rather, only seeking the center, which is inverse to anything personal or located to a specific person. I “do” theurgy most nights, not all. In the cases I don’t, it's due to collapse from exhaustion. ALL ‘rituals’ and ‘practices’ are against Theurgy and apophatic insight. To “do” things, i.e., Kamma (actions), is always the “inferior path” and never culminates in wisdom/ transcendence.
Do you have any favorite artists (painters, directors, writers, photographers, etc.)?
Well, I'm friends with Steve McCurry, he's probably the most famous photographer in the world, and a National Geographic photographer. He's bought a pile of lenses from me, and I made a video about him once when another YouTuber attacked him unrighteously. The engravings of Albrecht Durer I’m quite fond of, and the drawings of Walter Russell.
Have you ever seen a Bigfoot or known of anyone who has encountered one? Surely the wild of Kentucky must be home to a few. Any UFO or ghost experiences?
The only thing I see in my woods on my farm(s) is green/purple floating disembodied creatures, or what the old folk used to call “fairies." These are the disembodied beings of the forest. I doubt Bigfoot exists, or we would have a carcass by now; I could be wrong, but I doubt it. I’ve seen many ghosts and a few UFOs, namely outside of Murphy's hot springs in far southern Idaho, of which a secret military base is just northwest of the same. Everyone who lives down there told me “we see UFOs every night. EVERY NIGHT." Turns out they're 100% right.