Akasha
Space · Ether · Sanskrit philosophy
Where each thread leads
Space
Whether space is a container things sit in or a relation between things is one of the oldest live arguments in thought.
Ether
A word that has meant the upper air, the fifth element, and a medium for light — and was eventually abandoned by physics without quite leaving the language.
Sanskrit
A classical Indo-European language whose grammatical precision shaped how a vast body of philosophy could be argued.
Yoga
A family of disciplines aimed at steadying the mind — far older and far wider than the postural practice the word now names globally.
Consciousness
The fact that there is something it is like to be you — and the long argument about what that fact is.
Vedānta
A family of Indian philosophical schools reading the Upanishads, disagreeing sharply about the relationship between self and ultimate reality.