These semi-animals which were well adapted to the wilderness, to war, to prowling about, to adventure –suddenly all their instincts were deprived of value and ‘suspended’… They felt incapable of the simplest undertakings, in this new unfamiliar world their former guides, the regulating and unconsciously certain guides, deserted them – These unhappy creatures were…
This is Monday. There has never been a Monday like this Monday. Today received by my senses is infused with early spring sunlight. To compare with the past seasonal average, a day like this is unusual for Mid-March. Light warms the soil, rousing those dormant subterranean living things, a world invisible to us for…
The Sunday of the time change, the switch to daylight ‘savings’ time. Is anything at all ‘saved’? Describe for me how shifting the imposed grid of punctuated time, industrial time, upon the flow of natural-seasonal time is useful? Disruptive yes. Worth it? Why keep doing, in lock step what we’ve always done? I glimpsed…
The slave revolt in morality begins when resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values; the resentment of creatures to whom the real reaction, that of the deed, is denied and who can indemnify themselves only through an imaginary revenge. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality…
“Believing” in God is like “believing” in the taste of fresh-baked bread without ever having tasted actual fresh-baked bread. But what if you could commune with the Divine-Wow through up-close, personal encounters that are as vivid as eating fresh-baked bread? Some people have. You could, too. Formulate the intention to do so. Freewill Astrology…
Wednesday is midpoint of a seven day week. The middle is regarded to be the point of balance. It is common to believe that maintaining a balance, middle of the road, porridge not too hot and not too cold, the Goldilocks principle, (and the bed not too soft and not too hard, but just…
When I visited humankind, I found them sitting upon an old self-conceit. Each one thought he had long since known what was good and evil for humankind. All talk of virtue seemed to them an ancient wearied affair; and he who wished to sleep well spoke of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ before retiring. I disturbed…
The strongest and most evil spirits… rekindled the dozing passions. –every ordered society puts the passions to sleep… Time and again they reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in what is new, daring, un-attempted; they forced humankind to pit opinion against opinion, ideal model against ideal model. Mostly by force of…
Rob Brezsny’s Freewill Astrology newsletter stimulates me to think. He is a happy warrior, samurai-like with unflagging dedication to his craft as a writer, faith in the mana/power of words to humanize us. The last newsletter from Rob offered a list of neologisms. The list is relevant, important to the work that remains in…
There is a constant moiling and toiling going on in morality –the effect of successful crimes (among which, for example, are included all innovations in moral thinking.) Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by R. G. Collingwood aphorism 98 Nietzsche the wordsmith, was adept in three languages. A philologist by education, a specialist in classical…
