An Indictment Of Modern Education
I knew the day would come when I would have to include these quotes in the Omphalos Cafe record. …
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Words With A Certain Ring Of Truth
“The contrast between a tribal community and an eminently modern, urban agglomeration is one of extremes—from a spiritual, metaphysical standpoint …
Rave On Thy Holy Folk
–Dying Days… of Winter “So I have not declared all that appears and is necessary in this work, because there …
When ‘The Medium Is The Message’, Is There Really Any Message At All?
Hiatus. Back to the proverbial drawing board. Years ago I published two issues of a crude forerunner of the Omphalos …
Four (ok five) Quotes Around An Unseen Center
“God is in all things as being, as activity, as power.”—Meister Eckhart, c. 1300 “Eckhart, of course, was excommunicated: by …
Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …
Playing With The Dance Of Life
We humans are a muddle headed, tragi-joyous melange, ever seemingly lost and only now and then touching the divine, that …
Failure Of Nerve?
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens and the growth of the radically different …
Metropolitan Musing
In the past I would have walked the streets until my legs gave out. But one of them gave out …
The Big Apple!
That’s right. And I’m not talking about a 27 inch iMac either. But first there’s a brief stop over in …
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