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What Is Religion?
Ancient Rhythm Modern Time Greg Laugero Ancient Rhythm Modern Time Greg Laugero

What Is Religion?

At some point, anyone who seriously reflects on their place in the world encounters a deeper question than what to do next. The question is whether we are being called—called to attend to something that exceeds us and yet moves through us. This essay explores religion not as belief or law, but as a cultivated openness to purpose arriving from beyond the self. It argues that discernment, not certainty, is what keeps purpose from hardening into dogma, and that metanoia names an orientation to the future that remains alive to what has not yet taken shape.

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A Crisis of Purpose: Panurgy in Michel Serres’ L’Incandescent
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A Crisis of Purpose: Panurgy in Michel Serres’ L’Incandescent

Michel Serres names our moment a crisis of purpose rather than meaning. In L’Incandescent, he calls it panurgy: the human power to act at the scale of the world itself. As computation accelerates and intelligence becomes a wager, fate gives way to responsibility—and purpose outruns its bearings.

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