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 thus and element of truth in a joke about a young Christian girl’s ideal prayer to the Virgin Mary: “O thou who conceived without having sinned, let me sin without having to conceive!” –in the perverse functioning of Christianity, religion is, in effect, evoked as a safeguard allowing us to enjoy life…
Can all values not be turned around? And is goodness perhaps evil? And God only an invention and finesse of the Devil? Is everything perhaps in the last resort false? And if we are deceived, are we not for that very reason also deceivers? must we not be deceivers? …learn to grasp the necessary…
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. It is good to embrace the day dedicated to love, the opportunity to celebrate relationships which make one more human, more in tune with the person that is becoming in the journey of one’s solitary life. I offer words that came my way, gratefully received and sourced from someone else. …
The wide-awake day of a people mystically excitable, let us say the earlier Greeks, is in fact through the continually-working wonder which mythos presupposes, more akin to a dream than to the day of the thinker sobered by science. If every tree may at some time talk as a nymph, or a god under…
…the Romans and Etrusceans for their benefit cut up the sky by means of strong mathematical lines and banned a god as it were into a templum, into a space limited in this fashion, so every nation has above its head such a sky of ideas divided up mathematically, and it understands the demand…
What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms — in short, a sum of human relations, which become poetically and rhetorically intensified, transposed, and embellished, and which after long use seem firm, canonic, and binding to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that they are illusions;…
An hour plus was spent reading Nietzsche’s account – the pre-Socratic philosophers struggle, one after another to “explain”, to express to their own satisfaction, the nature of Being. Is Being singular and indivisible? If so does that mean that all that we experience, the multiplicity and the change in every direction is illusion and…
This is a controversial image. Street Art by definition is subversive, a point blank interrogation of the received, official interpretation of events. The war between the IDF and Hamas grinds on. “Grind,” is the word. The densely populated landscape of Gaza continues to be pulverized by artillery, by IDF airstrikes in order to eliminate…
December 21st. The dark outside is palpable reminder. Today is the shortest day of the year. The tilt of the earth’s axis away from the sun is at an oblique angle in the northern hemisphere. Is the dark evil, the diminished light an omen? On the other hand might we celebrate this interlude, pause…
