April 2025

A collection of personal dreams and their meanings, with direct links to each blog post. Source: Dreams and NightmaresYou recount a powerful dream where a massive bear with yellow eyes…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante, getting my morning started here at the Centennial Arboretum.Welcome to the vlog. Today’s thought is something I’ve been meaning to share for a while: And…

Exodus is the second book of the Bible and the spiritual core of Israel’s identity. It is a story of liberation, law, and the living presence of God. “Let my people go,…

I am a flesh creature, bound by gravity, who cuts and bleeds, feels sorrow, anger, greed, and lusts for the flesh of others, but I am also spirit, created in…

Your body is your soul

What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Today I’m sharing with you 10 techniques to improve your street photography. These are all tried and true lessons I’ve learned over a decade of…

Goethe’s Faust is a monumental work of German literature that blends philosophy, theology, alchemy, love, science, and the human condition into a poetic tragedy. Split into two parts, this drama…

The Enlightenment is framed as a movement out of darkness—but who defined the darkness? Plato’s vision integrated both—reason illuminates the shadows of sense. “In order to grasp reality, we must…

“The safest general characterization of European philosophy is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” – Alfred North Whitehead This lecture traces those footnotes—Plato’s influence on Aristotle,…

Politics is the art of structuring a just and flourishing society. “We must first understand the soul to understand justice in a person. But that’s hard. So let’s scale up—let’s…

Plato stands in opposition to nearly every modern doctrine of knowledge and reality. Modern thinkers who reduce truth to power, bias, or unconscious drives. All three cast suspicion on reason—but…

“Socrates never wrote. Plato never wrote in his own name. But he’s everywhere—and nowhere—in these dialogues.” “Socrates, you’re like a stingray. You’ve numbed me—I thought I knew what courage was.”…

Plato’s World 1. Introduction 2. The Global Intellectual Landscape of the Axial Age 3. Why Focus on Plato? 4. The Socratic Legacy 5. Key Philosophical Themes Introduced 6. The Unique…

What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to the Centennial Arboretum. Today I’m thinking about how the Ricoh GR is completely transforming the way I see the world. This shift is…

Walk with a strong gaitYou might be lateThe passage of time never waits I came, I saw, I conqueredI exit my home like it’s a bunker No sword, no shield,…

What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante.Today I’m going to be teaching you my top three street photography composition tips. Ultimately, over the past decade of traveling the world and practicing my…

Love that commitment — no more olive oil! 🔥 You’re stepping into a time-tested tradition of using animal fats that fueled humanity for millennia. Here’s how you can use what you’ve got instead of…

Foundational Health Philosophy Physical Vitality and Routine Diet, Fasting, and Nutrition Health-Boosting Habits Radical Lifestyle Choices