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Friday, January 13, 2012

Don't Misconscrew Reality

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We left off yesterday with a word of warning to those who would detach truth from the good and beautiful, or attempt to cuckold the Creator ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Evil is Necessary in a Cosmos that Isn't, but Woe to the Man who Messes with Sophia!

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Is it possible that Truth, Love, and Beauty could have their "dark sides," so to speak? Properly speaking, no; or perhaps yes a...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Shooting Real Bullets at Invisible Targets

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see . --Schopenhauer But because we can't see it, we ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Thoughts without a Thinker and Beauties without a Soul

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Okay, there is a superabundance of great beauty in the world. But what is beauty? And how did it get here? Was it here before Homo sapien...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

Where there's Holy Smoke there's Celestial Fire

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We've completed all but one chapter in our three-month meditation on Meditations on the Tarot . With all that behind us, we have a pret...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Quinquagenarian

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a waltblog trundling down the digital highway and this waltblog had a passage by Fran...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

Restless Brain Syndrome and the Quest for the Perfect Word

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My mission here -- in case you're wondering -- is to help scattered members of the vertical diaspora discover their destiny and thereby ...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

You're Not Special, You're a Jackass

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First, an ironyclad point of orthoparadox: our thesis is that the normotic person is not normal in the cosmic sense of the term, i.e., in...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Slipping Through the Net of Normality: It's Always a Midwife Crisis

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... now that we're down to just us three, we can finally get into the deeper stuff without fear of distortion and misunderstanding by al...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

The Tyranny of Normality

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Is there anything else we need to say about The Fool before moving on to The World ? Yes, I think so. In The Spiritual Ascent , Perry dis...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Cool Fools and Foolish Tools

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All of a suddenlike we're down to dealing the last two cards from the bottom of our deck of Meditations on the Tarot . This series bega...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Floating on Truth while Watching the Lies Roll By

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Chapter XX, The Judgement . Or as we say in America, Judgment. We remember Schuon writing something to the effect that there is birth, d...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Post of Christmas Past & Presence

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Last night we attended the family mass. While wife and child are fully immersed members who are completely afloat there, we remain a half-...
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