“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”― Alfred North Whitehead The more one researches what is meant by the term consciousness, the less it seems that there is any consensus of meaning. Most discussions I have come across seem to rather assume its meaning. Language, as …
The Black Books
Briefly, I am just learning that C.G. Jung's 7-volume set of the Black Books have recently been published. As of right now, the cost is too prohibitive for me to consider purchasing, but I look forward to reading them at some point in the future. In the meantime, I received an email from the Jung …
Fugitives, Monsters, Sanctuaries
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe reminds me that to know is to sacrifice, and that "To see is to risk blindness." Wherever focus is directed, by its very nature, a boundary or demarcation is created. Language itself is a form of focus that conjoins and separates underlying wholes into parts, framing realities, and objectifying one's perspective. The …
Dark is the womb…
...that births all new being. To quote Ursula LeGuinn, "How you play is what you win." ...which might help us to understand why the age of protest and progress is coming to a close. Our problems have outgrown our solutions in the same way that our solutions are incorporated into the existing problems. Fighting even …
Real Magic
Etymologically, magic, magus, has to do with having, or harnessing power, which could be real, except the concept of real is much too recent to be closely associated with an old idea such as magic, which increasingly has fallen out of favor with cultural norms by reality-oriented schemes in which the materialism of science and …
Theoria 