Time And Identity: Being A Year, A Growth, A Tree or a Tree Ring?

The Cauldron meetings will be recorded, because we're using it to cook up the basis of a philosophy that will hopefully be published. So bring your consent to be recorded and drop how you wish to be cited in the chat, if you wish to be! Your ideas will only be used word for word (excluding paraphrases), if they will be used at all.

We hope for a large turnout, but realize we're doing hard reading so don't necessarily expect it. So in either case these meetings will be recorded lecture style and likely uploaded on Youtube. Larger, more live meetings, will also be uploaded. Edits likely. I have yet to decide how I want to design the format...it's new and we're cooking it up!

Our first ingredient, metaphysics
Store bought from Jean-Claude Dumoncel
Between the Time of Physics and the Time of Metaphysics, the Time of Tense Logic? Sosein, Dasein, Zeitsein
[pdf-libre.pdf (d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net)](https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/74871065/pdf-libre.pdf?1637311393=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DBetween_the_Time_of_Physics_and_the_Time.pdf&Expires=1700886538&Signature=Wf2e15V1XpFUvc2kL1~uXhDBly-yoYj5aT6nUH7wSjbBD98f7RohQ3YzCvgUbeEYc6EM5WxcDEllJ1KW3ULkPxeqnopbRxRa4gEUQaqWHyoQuJotMLvEe7MpRv4zRg0Qeb0so6aldPaeZwHv44yPd10nZH7MpCvrc9rM9GAQeqtujSTCaU-OKIxqJKoI713vX81ohmqcPBVMLiCgd-4OObpmNXwGEUT7-bAbUG4za~borNd4~HPL8FhNMxUXUC-m1bXGwifGTlTctonY~5aKUPXZ5NyXzVfgQk0tFO7p1n530wCqTW42qUATh3x6I3K21ufUI4BFDPTDVWTcQ-NFRw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA)

Our second ingredient, anarchism
Store bought classic from Max Stirner
The Unique and Its Property (pgs. 26-36)
[Stirner - The Unique and Its Property.pdf (libcom.org)](https://files.libcom.org/files/Stirner%20-%20The%20Unique%20and%20Its%20Property.pdf)

Our third ingredient, ecology
Store bought classic from the Royal Society
Trees tell of past climates: but are they speaking less clearly today?
[43XA8LK6PCMVMH9H_353_65.pdf (nih.gov)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692171/pdf/43XA8LK6PCMVMH9H_353_65.pdf)

In this meetup, we will cook up where time starts, spirit ends, and identity as a physical being even factors in! Get ready for some magical weirdness; cat supervisory appraisals by black witch cat Nicks and wizard Norwegian forest cat Cannoli will be sporadic, and often involve walking on the keyboard and sniffing the webcam. Nevertheless very important for regulation reasons on the unknown dimension that causes 3 AM Zoomies, I'm sure. Your own furry familiar research supervisors are encouraged to be made a seat at the table of wild intellect to watch over their humans, as well!

Have fun, be philosophical! I'm a graduated philosophy major doubling now as a nonprofit founder and a math teacher who loves metaphysics and analytical philosophy primarily. I find however, my philosophical and anarchic sides aren't well served by academic philosophy. Here all of us who itch in our collegiate cardigans can bond over wilder instantiations of big ideas.

All are welcome, however, be respectful, and do NOT be academically orthodox, even though we love our orthodox friends. Silliness encouraged, bring your sense of humor :)

If you're curious what on earth an anarchist means by respect, you can find my sole definition in the book on indigenous research Braiding Sweetgrass: Braiding Sweetgrass | Milkweed Editions

For fun, here is our "point system"
Focus on one piece - Magician
Synthesize two pieces - Metaphysician
Synthesize three pieces - Witch/wizard (whatever feels best to you. My cats are particularly unorthodox on this point; Nicks is a male witch and Cannoli is a female wizard. It just felt right to them and honestly it makes perfect sense now that it's all said and done.)

Here's hoping for a delectable synthesis stew! -Alexandria