Invocations of the Muse

Eternity is in love with the productions of time ~ William Blake A mystical union, be it with god or muse, is a union with the transcendent… an invocation of the divine. All of existence is part of a seemingly eternal movement towards something. I prefer to think of it as an Infinite Ideal, that […]

Beyond the Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus imagined Sisyphus as happy, pushing his boulder up the hill. This “hero” accepts his fate and is devoid of hope. The perfect absurdist hero. What a hopeful chap that Camus; but such hope, he fails his own test. Camus can go no further, yet Sisyphus persists. Do not ask if he is happy […]

We can not Not believe

One of the most important things I’ve ever learned, is to not get lost in the symbols and metaphors of belief. Before you dismiss beliefs in God or gods or faeries or elves or spirits or a belief in a mechanistic universe devoid of any supernatural entities — before dismissing the beliefs of others, recognize […]