Meta-Narratives Quotes

“For Plato and Socrates, the philosopher is one who lives according to virtue and reason, cultivating the pleasures of the soul and intellect and not the pleasures and passions of the baser desires of the body. The key to this path is grasping first that there are absolutes—absolute truth, goodness, beauty, and other aspects of life. These are universal forms that are recollected from our past lives and ultimately harken back to the One, or the monad, from which all things mysteriously emanated. We, as humans, “see” truly through the soul, and seeing with this higher, awakened eyesight allows us to peer into the higher realm of existence where truth is eternal, not subject to the chaotic flux and temporal finitude and change of this life.”
― Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

“Leibniz rejected the idea that fundamental reality was made up of material atoms; he posited instead that mind, particularly the Divine Mind, was the ground of reality manifest in all the infinite monads. In this theory, Leibniz actually presages many twentieth-century developments in quantum physics, including the theories of Wolfgang Pauli and psychiatrist Carl Jung regarding the continuity of the inner concepts of the psyche and the outer archetypes encountered in the world of physics. For Jung, psyche—or mind—bridged that gap, and Leibniz would agree, arguing that reality is, at base, conscious. I also see similarity between Maximus the Confessor and his logoi. For all these thinkers, reality was grounded in the mind of God, though they differ quite a bit in what that entails and how that is.”
― Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

“The revolutions of the Enlightenment period repositioned humanity in a vast, mechanistic, determined cosmos of flux and brute “causality” in which people sought to become the ultimate agents and source of meaning itself. Western establishment science eventually came to reflect this revolution in thought by offering a new paradigm of the natural sciences in which humanity was now the chance product of endless eons of chaos and flux. The crucial point to keep in mind for our discussion is the fact that the purely “naturalistic” framework for understanding the world was promulgated with an astounding degree of propaganda and top-down dogmatism, notably from Britain’s Royal Society (formerly The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge). Evolutionary naturalism, as we will explore, is undoubtedly and certainly a conspiracy, and not at all a neutral theory of open scientific inquiry as it pretends to be.”
― Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

“Marxist, feminist, and statist education in our day is universally programmed to read all great works as externally imposed class and gender warfare diatribes that subvert everything wholesome and wondrous that might exist within them. And should you happen upon a male professor who isn’t a feminist/Marxist, you likely found he was an atheist materialist who scoffed at anything in the work beyond his feeble grasp.”
― Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

“For Aristotle, fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher, the starting point of wisdom, or philosophy, was metaphysics. Modernity, in its quest for self-destruction, has more or less rejected metaphysics. But metaphysics will never go away because metaphysics is reality itself—the study of the totality of what is. Metaphysics is the starting point in terms of actual foundations of knowledge and presupposition, yet it comes at the end of the process of pedagogy, as it is the highest science. Nowadays, aside from certain continental philosophers who follow in the train of genius writers like nineteenth/twentieth-century German philosopher mathematician Edmund Husserl, theoria and metaphysics have been jettisoned for pragmatism, postmodernism, and other forms of self-destructive prattle. [...] Unfortunately, certain basic flaws in Aristotle’s own position led to that decline, particularly his adoption of empiricism. Aristotle cut the world off from the possibility of any other world or reality or dimension, and while it took a millennium or two, this ultimately resulted in materialism, positivism, and finally the negation of all meaning and purpose.”
― Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism