Image Credit: Evie S. By Augustine Wasef Ancient civilizations didn’t have an escape from the irresistible gravitational influence of materialism. Everything appeared to have some tangible representation and abstraction was delegated to some Platonic kingdom far above the clouds. Light however is distinctly immaterial. Even from a subatomic basis light is built with an inherently different structure than matter (see boson fermion distinction). Gothic cathedrals are built arou

Image credit: Unsplash/Mahdi Bafanda By Augustine Wasef A feather fell through my psyche like a lead brick. No imaginary ether propelled it forward, no ancient spell, and no spiritual awakening worthy of attention. And yet it punctuated the sonic landscape with a deafening cry. All else went dark.  We all feel despair. The words of a ancient Catholic chant “what we have done and what we have failed to do” illuminate this feeling with such a mathematical precision. We have all

Image credit: Pixabay/ha11ok By Augustine Wasef Objects have a sanctified quality, unlike thoughts which are abstract, or memories which appear as rock solid but instead are flawed. Objects are anchors for our consciousness.   The digital world grants the user the power to create almost anything they can imagine, see goat simulator . With this power we gradually lose our touch with reality. An infinite supply of free universes means our own becomes increasingly worthless. Wit

Image Attribution: Public Domain/Unknown By Augustine Wasef The inexplicable handprints pictured above are from the Cueva de las Manos cave complex, which contains art dating from 7300 BC to 700 AD. The academic community has searched for more than a century for an explanation and has championed relatively utilitarian explanations for prehistoric cave paintings. But to claim that these handprints were merely just serving a ritual purpose is to ignore the actual intention. We

Image credit: Mae Mu/Unsplash Science has been, seemingly eternally, a group of disparate theories with only the weak unifying theme of the search for knowledge about the universe. Until the late 20th century when a ragtag group of scientists embarked on a seemingly absurd quest - to unify every branch of science, and by extension the entirety of our knowledge about the universe, into a united and coherent theory. They started a frenzy of research where a multitude of papers

Image Credit: Unsplash/Storm Seeker The most agonizing events a person experiences can fundamentally change their psyche. Arguably, the most traumatic event in human history created a sense of divine judgment that has carried into the modern era. It reshaped the meaning of being human. Roughly fifteen thousand years ago humans were scarred by a tragedy that was etched into the collective mind and ruminations of the subconscious: the sea level dramatically rose following the e

Unsplash/Constantinos Kollias By Augustine Wasef The Iliad  begins awkwardly lacking the sense of ambition that permeates its equals. It...

By Augustine Wasef Image credit: Stephen Kalinin/Unsplash For those you have been trying to make sense of Gen Alpha, I feel you. We are expected to believe Gen Alpha will be a progressive renaissance or a conservative tsunami, the end of organized religion or the phoenix of it. The self-contradictory headlines bear more resemblance to a dissonant piece by Schoenberger than the stable chord progression we desire; in the mad stampede to hear what we want we lose sight of realit

Photo: Unsplash/Denys Nevozhai Free will has been a long standing debate across various fields–from religion to quantum mechanics. In...

Image credit: Pixabay/ojkumena By Augustine Wasef The quenched flame charred selectively Without appetite for some dwellings, Mythologies...