A Glimpse of Immanence
Immanence is known only through glimpses: a moment of pure perception obtained as consciousness shifts from one perspective to another. And it is this movement, this shifting of perspective, that …...
View Articlenotes on Deleuze: Pure Immanence
Immanence “becoming” “Pure plane of possibility.” “doesn’t refer to an object or belong to a subject.” “Drives before being, pre-ontological drives.” “increase or decrease of power [energy].”...
View ArticleWhat is Immanence?
Immanence is a concept that can only be understood in dialectical tension with transcendence. Immanence is “the state of being within.” The word is derived from the Latin root en … Continue reading →
View ArticleA Living and Unstable Synthesis
Written by Contributor Edward Phillips Immanence could be described as continuous synthesis without a resting place, without a fixed standing above or apart. Immanence as a concept is impossible to …...
View ArticleCarl Jung and the “deep truth”
Carl Jung calls immanence “the deep truth” and speaks of “the secret immanence of the divine spirit of life in all things.” In an age when most believe that ‘God … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe divine in everyday life
Often we think of the divine as somewhere beyond life, as something to be achieved at the end of life, or experienced as a state of perfection. The divine is … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Culture of Immanence
Western civilization has been on the trajectory of transcendence, but this is beginning to change as society takes an immanent turn. The trajectory of transcendence creates a culture based on …...
View ArticleVishnu
Deleuze describes immanence in terms such as “becoming” and “possibility” or as a “pure stream of subjective consciousness”. This is reminiscent of descriptions of the form of God as Vishnu. … Continue...
View ArticleImmanence and Transcendence
Immanence can only be discovered in a dialectical relationship to transcendence. The word transcendence means “to surmount, to go beyond or to climb above”. And the concept of transcendence expresses …...
View ArticleImmanence and Embeddedness
Immanence is the ‘spiritual’ dimension which saturates life. We have not been able to speak of it because it has been experienced as ‘beyond’ (transcendent to) our ability to symbolize … Continue...
View ArticleLet us become seers
“The artist is a seer, a becomer.” -Gilles Deluze. Let us all become artists of our lives. Let us become seers. As we open to the divine within life as … Continue reading →
View ArticleIs ‘God’ Dead?
“Let us pray to God to be free of ‘God’.” –Meister Eckhart. We exist in a shifting ground, and outworn symbolic notions need to be re-imagined. Outer, worldly, changes provoke … Continue reading →
View ArticlePsycho-theology?
There is a deep truth emerging from within the depths of the collective unconscious. This truth is taking the form of an idea, an idea which aims to symbolize the … Continue reading →
View ArticleThoughts on Carl Jung’s notion of ‘psychic facts’
I often think about Carl Jung’s notion of ‘psychic facts.’ In particular I am interested in Jung’s idea of God as a psychic fact. In my view, this term does … Continue reading →
View ArticleJacques Lacan: the ‘subject of the unconscious.’
Descartes said, cogito ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am”… Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan discusses the importance of the thought process that Descartes went through to get to his conclusive statement: …...
View ArticleA Glimpse of Immanence
Immanence is known only through glimpses: a moment of pure perception obtained as consciousness shifts from one perspective to another. And it is this movement, this shifting of perspective, that …...
View ArticleThe Transcendent Mirror
Consciousness is a multifaceted looking-glass. To look through one side is to perceive the eternal and to look through the other side is to perceive the actual; one side the … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Immanent Turn
Throughout evolutionary history, humanity has been on the steady trajectory of transcendence. The deep root of this movement is the transcendence of the consciousness. As consciousness birthed out of...
View ArticleThe Pulsation of Life
Have you ever been at a peak overlooking the city, and seen the sparking lights pulsate? All the lights of singular lives blending into each other, filling the horizon. The … Continue reading →
View Articlenotes on Deleuze: Pure Immanence
Immanence “becoming” “Pure plane of possibility.” “doesn’t refer to an object or belong to a subject.” “Drives before being, pre-ontological drives.” “increase or decrease of power [energy].”...
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