What I wrote, taught, and published in 2025 I look back at my writing, teaching, publishing, and presenting from 2025. Also, looking ahead to this next year of reflection and exploration. Matthew A. Stanley • Samsara Diagnostics
Nature is already beyond itself In the name of security, we risk reducing ourselves purely to the level of the natural where we no longer bear the burden of freedom. Matthew A. Stanley • Samsara Diagnostics
Arnold Böcklin, Der Gang nach Emmaus (1870) Esoteric Speech in St. Paul Paul provides us with a model for how he approaches modulating his speech depending on his audience's level of spiritual maturity. Matthew A. Stanley • Christianity
Untitled. (Ausgrabung eines überdimensionalen Totenkopfes), 1911 by Fritz Janowski Radioactive Love Like a radioactive substance, Love is leaking into the world from the porous walls of the Church, leaving everything irreparably changed. Matthew A. Stanley • Christianity
Medicine for me, poison for you Philosophy is like a poison -- a medicine for some may be a poison for others. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
An animal born too soon must make masks We feel that we cannot relate to ourselves until we have performed the necessary alienation of objectifying ourselves, thus producing an object we take to be ourselves. Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Religion isn't for you What if the power of religion lies not in what is authentic or personal about it, but precisely in its capacity to make us feel strange and alienated from ourselves? Matthew A. Stanley • Samsara Diagnostics
What died on the cross In the wake of the cross, we now have to grapple with who God has revealed Himself to be, laying waste to all the games we used to play around Him. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
"Lower Manhattan, Broad and Wall Streets" by Childe Hassam (1907) Everything done in darkness When we see the one who wields power, we must see someone ensnared in a myriad invisible deals with their terms penned in blood. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
