Tag: metaphysics

Thinking Religion 170: Why Science Class Never Felt Right 🪐

Here’s episode 2 (of 8) of Rooted in Mystery: A Season of Thinking Religion Rewilded…

A physics teacher’s confession and the call of a wilder truth.

For nearly two decades, I taught high school science — physics, environmental science, and life science — and believed I was helping students understand how the world works. But something never quite fit. In this episode, I open up about the quiet tension I carried in those classrooms: the gap between what I taught and what I knew in my bones — that the world is more than parts and particles. This story is about the limits of reductionism, the pull of mystery, and the day I stopped mistaking control for understanding. We’ll explore Alfred North Whitehead’s “Nature Alive,” embodied learning, and the freedom from letting the cosmos be alive again. If you’ve ever felt disillusioned with modern science’s flat explanations or if you’ve longed for something wilder and more sacred, this episode is for you.

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Aristotle’s Metaphysics and The Categories

Aristotle’s Metaphysics as well as The Categories are two of my favorite books to pick up when I need to scratch my head or be humbled in my knowledge of ancient Greek. I find Plato more sensible, but there’s something about these two books (especially Metaphysics) that keeps bringing me back in my own work and research on religion and ecology and consciousness.

Fun quote here (and good read if you’re looking for a long-form first take on Metaphysics).

Aristotle: Metaphysics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

The Metaphysics inevitably looks like an attack on Plato just because Plato’s books are so much better than anything left by Thales, Empedocles or anyone else.

There’s so much more I’ll say about this in the future.

Also, here’s an amazing thread you should review if you’re interested in reading more philosophy (and theology) in the new year instead of doom scrolling on social media.