Having recently revisited James Hillman's book, The Dream and the Underworld, I was excited to read Jeremy Kessler's article in the New Atlantis on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, "The Hall of Fantasy," in which he proposes that those who would dwell too long in the imaginative world of fantasy are susceptible to the pursuit of a single-minded …
Author: ptero9
Love what you fear. Fear what you love.
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Chasin’ After the Wind
What a timely find in this article written by Jeremy Beer about the Communio movement within the Catholic church and David L. Schindler, author of Being Holy in the World and Ordering Love. How refreshing to read his perspective about the nature and meaning of life as being relational, to God, to onself and to others and the primacy …
God Only Knows
Dear Mr. Bloom, I love your books. I have read The Lucifer Principle, Genius of the Beast and The Global Brain and am currently reading The God Problem. So, I am a big fan even though we may disagree about God and the Problem...although I do agree that what we call God and how we …
Love and Mercy
There may not be a word used as frequently in our day that's so lacking in a precise definition as the word Depression. Literally, to depress is to press down, which we still recognize when a doctor uses a tongue depresser to see the back of our throat. But since the latter part of the …
Your Bright Baby Blues
Even before the Aurora theater shootings last July, I had an interest in mass shootings that have sadly become a part of our American culture in the last 25 years or so. Why are they happening - is there something in the water causing some new form of derangement? Seriously, what is clear to me …
Theoria 