by The New Agora | Mar 9, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Zen and Anarchy “Zen is the practice of anarchy in the strictest and most super-orthodox sense.” ~Max Cafard Let’s unpack the concept of “Zen and Anarchy” by exploring its proposed seven components: authentic rebellion, direct action...
by The New Agora | Mar 2, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Humorous Fallibilism “I’m not trying to be wise, that would be foolish.” ~Mary Oliver Humorous fallibilism, what a delightful little paradox to chew on. It tastes like one might imagine an Everlasting Gobstopper tasting. Fruity with a hint of...
by The New Agora | Feb 19, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
How to Think Like a Man of Action and Act Like a Man of Thought “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” ~Henri Bergson In a world where people believe more than they think and think they know more than they believe,...
by The New Agora | Feb 5, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
The Existential Paradox By Gary Z. McGee “The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.” ~Epicurus The existential paradox, in essence, is the tension between the human search for meaning and the apparent meaninglessness of the...
by The New Agora | Jan 30, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
God Reborn: Redefining God as The Infinite Interconnectedness of All Things “We are all mothers of God, for God is always needing to be reborn.” ~Meister Eckhart In the spirit of rebirth, it is our responsibility as evolved, and evolving,...
by The New Agora | Jan 24, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
The Mask That Out-masks All Masks “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” ~Oscar Wilde If the Self is defined as ‘masks all the way down perceiving delusions all the way up,’ then...
by The New Agora | Jan 11, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Cosmic Heroism and The Art of Eminence “God emptied to the limit is man, and man emptied to the limit is God.” ~ Alan Watts A cosmic hero is a man emptied to the limit realizing that he is one with God while also understanding that God...
by NewNow | Jan 4, 2025 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
The Jacob’s Ladder of the Soul “We, half dust, half deity.” ~Lord Byron By Gary Z. McGee The bridge to the Overman is the Jacob’s Ladder of the Soul. We are all of us, individually, God perceiving itself. As Alan Watts said, “You are...
by The New Agora | Dec 20, 2024 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
Trickster Archetype: The Ultimate Ego Leveling Mechanism By Gary Z. McGee “The trickster is the unconscious judging the judgments of the ego. The trickster pokes holes through the ego’s inflation. The trickster tells the dreamer to...
