Canada can translate Western ideals of freedom to the East in a language that does not demand the total destruction of their communal base. Canada as the Geopolitical Translator If we view the world as a living body, conflicts occur when organs can no longer communicate, mistaking their specific regional function for universal reality. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
The extremely hot exhaust of a steelmaking process is different from warm water leaving a data-center cooling loop. AI, Heat, and the Living Infrastructure of the City A quantity of heat can appear as waste from the standpoint of one process and simultaneously as a resource from the standpoint of another. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 10 min read
Photonics and the propagation of intelligence. What Our Data Centers Reveal About How We Imagine AI How much of this enormous physical infrastructure is actually intrinsic to artificial intelligence, and how much of it results from the particular way in which we have imagined, represented and engineered intelligence? By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 10 min read
Do water serpents and other mythical beings with long histories recorded around them actually lie along doorways or portals? The Serpent Between Worlds Sometime in the early 1900s, it is said that a young boy encountered a water serpent on the St. Lawrence River. By Diane T Adams • 3 min read
The German demands for payback are directly linked to the September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. The Russian – Ukraine Conflict: The World-Situation in a Nutshell Alice Weidel’s demand that Ukraine return significant sums (which she estimates to be over €70 billion) relies on three main political contexts By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 7 min read
If we can name a thing, we can essentially tame it, make it, in a sense, our own. The World Without Names I am, after all, only sitting in the backyard, wondering to myself whether it is true that if I leave the earth in my imagination, I do, in fact, leave it in a true way. By Diane T Adams • 1 min read
Evil is not something lurking in the shadows of graveyards at night. Becoming Born Again We must break open, at some point along the suffering road, in order to become what we’re ultimately capable of being. By Diane T Adams • 2 min read
When a linear protein ribbon is synthesized, the subtle body does not grip the amino acids directly through physical force. The Metaphysical Microscope: Molecular Biology, the Living Terrain, and the Reception of Cosmic Forces To understand how the subtle body projects its geometric archetypes into dense physical matter, attention must be directed toward the primary substance of the cellular interior: liquid water. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 7 min read
The moment a molecule crosses into a living cell, its behavior is fundamentally altered. The Metaphysical Microscope: Protein Folding and the Reception of Cosmic Forces The subtle body provides the exact spatial coordinates, overriding the chaotic, repulsive tendencies of the atoms and drawing the ribbon into the precise configuration required for life. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 4 min read
Can memories be changed, and once changed, does this change affect others, perhaps involved ones, too? Living Memory To change a memory for myself is to slightly alter it for everyone–to change it, in fact, for the world itself. By Diane T Adams • 2 min read
When an economic or corporate configuration can no longer stand on its own terms, it does not immediately collapse. The Sovereign Illusion: Why Late-Stage Capitalist Systems Are Stranded at the Threshold of Reality By propping up the dead forms, the West ensured that its institutions became primarily occupied with suppressing economic reality rather than adapting to it. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 5 min read
The darker the night, the greater the morning to come will be. In The Dark Night Of The Soul A dark night experience is an inner experience, a journey alone into the center of the self, where only the soul can answer the questions. By Diane T Adams • 1 min read