This post is an updated version of a post from Christmas 2013: What is it that is born, again and again - on Christmas day and in each new life, and in each moment of everyday? Perhaps it is symbolic of another ongoing kind of birth - the birth that brings renewal throughout our lifetime …
Category: Being
Stranger Than Fiction
"It has been a long time since most of us have experienced the world. We experience instead a constriction, a selection. We step cautiously out, checking our selves at first, against What Is Allowed, What Is Known To Be True. We constantly throw a world out ahead of ourselves and move safely into it." Tom …
Break on Through
"I found an island in your arms Country in your eyes Arms that chain Eyes that lie Break on through to the other side" Jim Morrison Oftentimes it is said that ideas are less important and that action is better; what counts then is what is done or made manifest. The favored status of action, an idea …
The Unveiling
Perhaps we moderns no longer see ourselves as living under the influence of myths or belief systems. Whatever their source, they no longer serve us because any belief we subscribe to does not necessarily come to us through the culture of our familiars. More than any other period in history, we have become fractionalized as …
The Holy Birthing
If Christmas is about a birthday, and the Holy birthday of the Christ child, what is it that is trying to be born in the repeating of this holiday each year? Why do we celebrate birthdays or Christmas? What does the ritual want with us? What is it that is born, again and again - on …
Theoria 