Fritjof Capra's 1975 The Tao of Physics is a book on the similarities of science and religion. Science is paradigmatic to the West, religion to the East. The former investigates reality via rationality, the latter via intuition. Capra's thesis is that findings in modern physics are similar to the "truths" of Eastern religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. The interconnectedness of the subatomic world, the nature of space-time, are two examples that show how the religions of the East...

Jean Gebser and the Philosophy of Consciousness Fernando J. Villalovs The philosopher Jean Gebser presents an architectonic that places consciousness within a process of dialectical unfolding. A structure is a moment in the evolution of consciousness, in which the capacities of consciousness of annulment or cancelation, preservation or retention, sublation or transcendence, ground it in a self-generating process of development toward increasingly more complex and inclusive unity. This...

Claude Levi-Strauss and the Philosophy of Myth Fernando J. Villalovs In this project, I examine the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss' metaphysics of mythology, through his work Myth and Meaning [1]. I show how Levi-Strauss demonstrates that there is an artificial metaphysical schism between myth and science, insofar as the latter is built on the former's illusion of power. The Modes of Science: Structuralism and Reductionism Claude Levi-Strauss begins his account of myth by suggesting that...