Future, Flow & Waiting For The Offo
No essay this week...
Sup Monks!
Unfortunately, PhD literature review work got the better of me this week, and I wasn’t able to finish the essay on Plotinus…
I feel I have brought great shame to my dojo, but it’s also a massive topic, so I need an extra week not to make a ‘hames of it (pls).
Hopefully, after this essay, having mapped out the Neoplatonist spiritual journey, we can examine other important meta-narratives of human life like Christianity (through the work of St Augustine) and Jungian Psychoanalysis through Alchemy, the Philosopher’s Stone and Hermetic Philosophy, which might actually just be middle platonism, and start to make some connections.
Once that’s fully fleshed out, we will contextualise why this explicit self-development framework is necessary, looking at the attention economy, the rising of pse…
