Friedrich Nietzsche famously had the concept of a "free spirit," who was someone who breaks free from the inherited dogma's of religion, social norms, tradition, and society in general. Free spirits are hostile to conventional morality and hostile to religious and political absolutes. Free spirits have the courage to acknowledge and forge their own perspective and not just the perspective of their given conventions in society. Free spirits also have the ability when presen

Friedrich Nietzsche the famous German existentialist, famously wrote that "there are no facts, only interpretations." Nietzsche meant that our epistemic awareness of the world, comes through a filter of the subjective understanding of our religious, political, familial, linguistic, and general cultural milieu. This doesn't mean that facts don't exist but our understanding of facts is mediated through our own subjective understanding of the world. People tend to like certai

St. John of the Cross famously wrote the poem the "Dark Night of the Soul," as a sort of existential spiritual crisis in which spiritual despair and God's absence pervades your whole sense of being. There is an intense sense of a loss of meaning and purpose in one's life, along with feeling abandoned by God. For me personally it feels like I am knocking on a door and asking God to open it, but there is just no one on the other side. As someone who suffers from depression a

I recently finished a book a couple of weeks ago by the esteemed journalist Stephen Kinzer. The book is entitled "Poisoner in Chief:...