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 …
Tag Archives: culture
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 …
Playing My Magic Flute
*** Sitting here at the kitchen table, cast propped on a chair and tea at my elbow, pondering the interconnectedness …
Blockages
“The period—we must note—was that of the fanatic cutting down of the Old Germanic sacred shrines and groves by the …
Yet He Is Seen By Subtle Seers
“Though he is hidden in all things, That self does not shine forth. Yet he is seen by subtle seers …
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