God, the human being, the collective, biology, death, and the web of meaning
We never meet God raw. What reaches us has already passed through a nervous system, a language, a family, a church or a refusal of church, a fear of dying, and a need to know what the day is for. That does not prove God is only a need. Love and the world…
God does not need You
God does not need you. That is why He can hold you without using you. A God who “cannot do without you” no longer holds you: He uses you so that He will not come apart. The same law comes down into the house. The child is not proof. The spouse is not a…
The body the fullness did not need, and still entered
This essay continues The fullness that pours out a world it does not owe to anyone and The particular event without a new act in God. If inverted Actus Purus keeps God as pure act and still admits dated particularity without a new state in the source,…
The particular event without a new act in God
The earlier essay left one mechanism unfinished: the dated particular event. This follow-up states it without giving the first cause a before and after. Intervention and non-intervention are not two states of God. They are two kinds of created series…
The fullness that pours out a world it does not owe to anyone
Actus Purus and the horizontal process stand facing each other as two demands that seem to cancel one another. The first says that God is pure act: without potency, without becoming, without a lack the world could fill. The second says that the first…
Exclusive interview with James B. Glattfelder: Information, consciousness, and the architecture of reality
In this exclusive interview, Andrei Eugen Drăguț speaks with physicist and complexity scientist James B. Glattfelder—from the hidden networks of global corporate control to the radical possibility that consciousness is the very ground of reality. A…
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Michael Pravica: Matter, consciousness, and the hidden dimensions of reality
In this exclusive interview, Andrei Eugen Drăguț speaks with Dr. Michael Pravica, Professor of Physics and member of HiPSEC, about matter under extreme conditions, useful hard X-ray chemistry, consciousness, higher dimensions, Orthodox faith, artificial…
The body is a distributed mind
The body is not a passive instrument controlled by the brain. It is a distributed system of sensing, processing, prediction, regulation, defense, memory, and identity. The self is not located in one place. It emerges from the integration of body, brain,…
Could God lie to you?
If God is perfect, lying seems both unnecessary and incompatible with moral perfection. But if we remove morality and keep only power, knowledge, purpose, and efficiency, falsehood becomes possible as an instrument. The real question is not simply…
The future a faith creates
Religions do not only teach beliefs. They organize time. They tell people where salvation is located, whether the present is a trap or a gift, whether the future is restoration or catastrophe, and whether the self is saved alone, through the group, or by…
When spiritual language protects the ego
Spiritual language is powerful because it reaches places ordinary language often cannot reach. Spiritual language can save a person. It can give form to suffering that would otherwise remain shapeless, and it can carry someone through poverty, grief,…