Again Hesse’s ‘The Poet’….
“Therefore, I beg you to let me go my own way in loneliness for a while and devote myself to …
Category Archives: Shaman/Poet
Words Of A Genuine Shaman-Type….
I don’t usually quote at such length, but I’ve been returning to the following passage again and again since first …
Old Men And Women….
“Could by any chance culture be the meaning and purpose of the second half of life?”—Carl Jung, as quoted from …
The Plight Of The Struggling Artist….
This is from a response I wrote yesterday, with adaptations, to a comment I received from—with apologies Mame—a compassionate soul …
‘Like A Magnetic Field… ‘
“Actually,…there is a formative force spontaneously working, like a magnetic field, to precipitate and organize the ethnic [local, historical] …
Breakdown… And New Light!
The film Once Were Warriors has stayed with me as my world outlook broadened over the decades. What …
A New School….
“When a culture is in a state of disintegration or transition the freedom of the artist increases— but the …
The Impending Rebirth Of Symbols….
“Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each …
“…The Drift Of It Everything…”
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything….”—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Good old Walt. …
Yesterday And Today….
My generation was lucky. We crossed the fraught years of adolescence before home video games took hold towards …
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