Transcendenz

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading

  • elective affinity

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading

    elective affinity
  • quiet transformation

    Silence is the best alchemy. — Rumi Related articles Ageless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Rabia, Rumi’s Inspiration: How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love (eternalstudentship.wordpress.com) If You Need Me, I’ll Be In Rumi’s Field (lucykaufman.wordpress.com) Let Me Be Mad,… Continue reading

    quiet transformation
  • piercing intension

    the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading

    piercing intension
  • Ageless Wisdom

    “The sacred function of hope has, in modern man, degenerated into a hideous disease called tomorrow.” –G. Gurdjieff How does the old age not already become the new age? How does the ancient not always transform into the modern? Would… Continue reading

    Ageless Wisdom
  • down

    down rolling falling drifting earth cold mud parting away foot leg waist torso neck head deranged beneath the at-level down ground water baptism “this is my beloved baby” breath stopping stoney ranging down-below emptiness down devils elementals daemons gods caressing hot memories death… Continue reading

    down
  • Nowhere do I want to remain folded

    Thanks to my beloved brother Joseph C. for reminding me of this beauty from Rilke. I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. I am too small in the world, and… Continue reading

    Nowhere do I want to remain folded
  • Hermes

    Little lean, wing-footed god How this big fat hobbling man Found himself in your service? Guide of souls at life’s end Messenger of divine will Lover of Desire herself… Send me some dream from ether, Hash me a smoky idea,… Continue reading

    Hermes
  • Whispering / Glimpsing

    Now/here flows the Way. Not in the words but around them, atop, beneath, behind, before, and after them. When ever we write, where ever we speak, the words themselves should not be the focus of meaning. While we can determine… Continue reading

    Whispering / Glimpsing
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • Twilighting Idolatries

    Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading

    Twilighting Idolatries
  • Boon of Dandelions 9

    Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight… Continue reading

    Boon of Dandelions 9
  • Body 4: Disembodied Nature

    Newest issue of Disembodied Text is out. Take a look see. The poetry, the music, the art pieces… really speaking to me this morning. Hat off to the editors, Kiki and Chris, for a great compilation. Body 4: Disembodied Nature… Continue reading

    Body 4: Disembodied Nature
  • Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration

    Related Articles: Whatever, Etc. 00021: The Loving Struggle 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00022: The Loving Struggle 2 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00023: The Loving Struggle 3 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00024: The Loving Struggle 4 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00026: Becoming Your Breathing (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration
  • Originally posted on The highest manifestation of wisdom is kindness. :   by Jane Cleary The word OM is probably more likely to be recognized by its symbol, even though it is the sound of OM that is the point… Continue reading

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  • Whatever, Etc. 00023

    If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00023
  • Fear and Fearlessness

    O you luminous being, you heart encompassing a brilliance: let-go fear; end your self exile in darkness: Only open your eyes & see the Light.  Textimony 20121209  Related articles Abandon Hope (and Fear) (shambhala.com) Pema Chodron – Renunciation as saying… Continue reading

    Fear and Fearlessness
  • How does Vandana Shiva do it?

    Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading

    How does Vandana Shiva do it?