J. W. Barlament

Chinese Daoism has been a major force in world religion and philosophy for aeons. And, oftentimes, this historical and global prominence...

The history of men making myths from the stars is already known to be an ancient one. And yet, most people can’t fathom half of its true...

Striking Similarities Westerners robbed of the religious worldview by the death of the traditional Christian God have evermore turned to...

The interwoven works of a Renaissance occultist and proto-abstract artist.

Introduction: The search for the origin of all religion is rather self-explanatory in its reasoning; such a discovery would have...

Ridiculous, isn't it? The image in question is a meme that's been making its way around the internet since at least 2013. "Everything in...

Desire is typically considered a universal evil. It is desire which the Buddha denounced as the root of suffering. It is desire which led...

Introduction- Prehistoric man is an enigma to his modern progeny. We tend to think of life in the distant past as an unenviable thing;...

As intimidating of a thought as it may be, it is undeniably true. We can never know everything. Our insatiable desire for knowledge will...

We do not desire "things". Money cannot keep us content. Fame and status cannot fill our empty hearts. Natural or man-made; antique or...

Everyone knows the all-encompassing solution to their own and all the world’s problems. Intuitively. Buried, somewhere deep within their...

The word “atheism” puts a bad taste in many people’s mouths, and seemingly for good reason. The so-called New Atheists have taken up arms...

There is a possibility, regardless of how far-fetched it may feel, that the human experience of the Way discussed in "The Idea of the Way...

Introduction- There is a force that permeates us all; a unifying energy on top of which existence itself has been built. To give it a...

I am that I am. This wisdom was immortalized in Exodus, but in truth, it is and has always been eternal. There are no divisions in...

Religions today seem to be in crisis. Old faiths are losing ground. A whole host of new faiths are attempting to replace them. At first...

Section I – The Sea – Reality is but a ceaseless sea, and we are but the waves that roll within it. This is the truth that every...

The entire world is struggling with a crisis of identity. No one seems to know, on a fundamental level, who they really are. When...

God can be defined in many ways, and here is one of them – a definition of divinity that’s rooted in geometry.

The following is an experiment in what I call iambic prose, or an iambic rhythm without the pairing of a poetic meter. Imagine, if you...