Year: 2019
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The Red Eye (a poem)
You see in a reverie A coloured butterfly A childhood memory Through your inner eye While the outer one red In tears without clue Your iris misled Into a darker blue Shall we open our soul To avoid being blind? From the sight of the whole All our fears quarantined Please…
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Truth Be Told (a poem)
This morning, as I was walking along the beach, some five thousand kilometres from home in Sweden, I met – randomly – a fellow researcher from my Swedish University and her two young children. She presented me as someone who writes poems (“dikter” in Swedish), and the little boy repeated pensively: “dikter”… A bit later…
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Crealectics: A Cosmo-Technology For The Making of Gods
“Humans do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling,…
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Improsophy – How to Write the Book of your Life (Luis de Miranda with Pianist Peter Knudsen)
An improvised conference around the words offered by the audience by Luis de Miranda with Pianist Peter Knudsen at Stockholm University.
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Imagining the Future of Philosophical Health, a Public Workshop at Unesco
Unesco headquarters, Paris – Monday 16 December 2019 – 14h30 – free and open participation Given the current state of the world and the feeling that modern institutions, paradigms and subjectivities are becoming obsolete, it is time for a creative tabula rasa to deal with growing pathologies of free will, polarisations and lack of faith…
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What is Philosophical Health and How Can We Reach it?
What is Philosophical Health and How Can We Reach it? A Workshop With Dr Luis de Miranda Thursday 12 March 2020 from 14h to 17h30 7, George Square, room G32 The University of Edinburgh: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Health is one of the main values of humanity. In the last century, physical health…
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Is a New Life Possible? Deleuze and Philosophical So(u)rcery
This is my clarification of Deleuze and Guattari and how their philosophy can be helpful in everyday life. Published in 2013 by Deleuze Studies Journal. I now realise it contains many germs of my current practice of Philosophical Counseling as transmutation. I became a so(u)rcerer. https://philarchive.org/archive/MIRIAN Abstract In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts…
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The Vision of Philosophical Health
“Philosophical health will be in the 21st century what physical and psychological health were in the 20th century. At the beginning of the century, it is a luxury for the happy few. By the end of the century, it is a necessity for all.” Luis de Miranda, talk at Unesco, Paris, 29 October 2019 Health…