Wolfgang’s Weekly
It is time to break the confines of the Cartesian Weltanschauung: time to rediscover the integral cosmos, the world which cannot be measured in light-years. Our...
Cosmology
Cosmic vs. Measurable Time: From Physics to Cosmology
Wolfgang Smith There is a categorical distinction between space and time conceived, on the one hand, as cosmic bounds, and on the other, as variables x and t to...
Restoring Sense to the Universe: A Review of ‘The Vertical Ascent’
Michael Dominic Taylor With this new book, Wolfgang Smith cements his reputation as a profound and original thinker whose proposals do not admit indifference. W...
From the Prologue to ‘The Vertical Ascent’ (II)
Bruno Bérard Editor’s Note: The following is the second of a two-part preview of M. Bérard’s Prologue to Wolfgang Smith’s forthcoming book...
From the Prologue to ‘The Vertical Ascent’ (I)
Bruno Bérard Editor’s Note: The following is the first of a two-part preview of M. Bérard’s Prologue to Wolfgang Smith’s forthcoming book,...
From Cosmos to Multiverse: The Ominous Descent
Wolfgang Smith We have spoken at length of the “tripartite cosmos” as envisaged in the sapiential traditions of mankind,1Physics and Vertical Causation: The...
The Tripartite Wholeness
Wolfgang Smith The universe presents itself as extended in space and changing in time, and its spatio-temporal locus can be represented mathematically in terms ...
Science, Scientism, and Spirituality
Wolfgang Smith What distinguishes science from scientism, in my terminology, is the fact that scientific tenets are based upon empirical evidence—and are more...
Lost in Math: The Particle Physics Quandary
Wolfgang Smith A golden age of physics, one can see in retrospect, commenced around the year 1900: the dazzling era of quantum mechanics had begun. That golden ...
Does Physics Admit a Teleology?
Wolfgang Smith Our question—“Does physics admit a teleology?”—proves, first of all, to be incurably philosophical inasmuch as it has no meaning whatsoev...
Do We Know the Electron?
Wolfgang Smith In August of last year, Eahab Ibrahim—a friend of the Initiative—posted a fascinating question, to which I would like to respond. It asks wha...
“Progress” in Retrospect: Part I
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The first installment of a three-part critique of modernity, the following was originally published in Cosmos & Transc...