This book explores the possibility of philosophical praxis by weaving an ontological thread through four principal thinkers: Heidegger, Schelling, Goethe, and Heraclitus. It argues that a special kind of redemptive power awaits the structural understanding of thought that is beyond semantic formations such as concepts and ideational systems. The author claims that the ¿power¿ is negative in nature, trans-personal, and derived directly from the understanding of thought as a structural pulse. The book travels backwards in time, encountering successively Heidegger¿s critique of calculative thinking, Schelling¿s Mind/Nature relation, Goethe¿s Delicate Empiricism, and the aphoristic wisdom of Heraclitus in search of a redemptive power that lies in the