So It Goes….
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in …
Category Archives: History
The Quest: Books, One; Hearts and Souls, Nothing
Nothing’s easy. Fun, yes, easy, no. Episode three of the Omphalos Cafe is now live on Youtube. Attempted to draw …
New is Old… and Old is New
“The new religion [Christianity, which was NOT our’s] destroyed almost all trace of the old [which was].”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon …
Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor
Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …
A Fragment of Biology
“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …
The Hero’s Deed (Dead?)
Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated. I photoshopped …
A Sacred Grove…. (Past and Present)
No, I’m not talking about my own personal sacred grove here at the Cafe, though for me that’s precisely what …
Reflections From Outside the Circle…
“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …
A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly
“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …
A Foundational Text… For The Future
“… [W]hat are the foundational texts of Western civilization, that can bolster our belief in the almost boundless power of …
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