by The New Agora | Dec 18, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
The Power of Skeptical Capability “Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” ~John Keats The marriage of Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Negative Capability is...
by The New Agora | Dec 5, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Power of Anti-belief In a Belief-ridden World “A truly spiritual person is not one who is encrusted with beliefs, dogmas, rituals. He has no beliefs; he is living from moment to moment, never...
by 4Freedom | Dec 2, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Flexing Mythopoetic: The Ultimate Integration “I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.” ~Aristotle Audacity. Daring. Insouciance. The courage to be dynamite when everyone else is...
by The New Agora | Oct 26, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
How to Live Out Your Godlike Nature “People prefer to believe in and worship a god who is remote rather than live out the godlike nature which is their inherent being.” ~Henry Miller The Big Bang is more your extended roots than it is an ancient event....
by The New Agora | Oct 9, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Forget Happiness, Be Antifragile “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ~Saint Francis de Sales Be careful that your need for happiness does not become an albatross. Focusing on your lack of happiness will only lead to...
by The New Agora | Oct 2, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
7 Signs You May Carry Nine-tailed Fox Medicine “What the lion cannot manage to do, the fox can.” ~German Proverb Nine-Tailed Fox Medicine draws from East Asian shamanic and spiritual traditions, where the fox spirit (huli jing in Chinese, kitsune...
by The New Agora | Sep 10, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Flexing In Flow: Using Enantiodromia as a Path to Eudemonia By Gary Z. McGee “The Madman knows that once God is dead, man must live like a god: man must go beyond the limits of his own being, leave his own nature behind and assume the burden, the risk, and the...
by The New Agora | Aug 8, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Behold the Overshadow: Shadow of the Overman “It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal––carries the cross of the redeemer––not in the bright moments of his...
by The New Agora | Jul 30, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Play the Infinite Game “After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.” ~Italian Proverb In the infinite game of life there are a finite number of games playing themselves out. All of which are...