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aphrodite’s illusion

March 25, 2023 forrestwolfe

Karl Kerenyi, who was Joseph Campbell’s peer, wrote of the Greek myths, that Aphrodite was a solar goddess, whose promise…

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Posted in: living together

the shock of women’s blood

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From today’s Halloween march, a shocking abortion rights protest, in which my sister participated. In a venue of bloodied zombies…

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the binding of shiva’s noose

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There is no sword that cuts purely from outside the whole. You can always redraw the lines of separation between…

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how dreams acquire flesh and bone

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Our dreams do not come true, as such, in the way I might have wished for. And yet it is…

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Posted in: dream life

black holes

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The best allegory for what science can reveal about faith is not the particle accelerator or the telescope but the…

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Chuang Tzu on the black light of dreaming

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Chuang Tzu: “Pour into it and it does not fill, bale out of it and it is not drained —…

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we cannot live without images

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Without images, one cannot live, except as a machine or a slave. That is why we cling so often even…

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falling in the well

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Once, in Greek myth, virgins were known to fall in wells, and these places marked portals to the underworld. Even…

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ship of fools

July 8, 2021 forrestwolfe

In medieval times, a ship of fools carried madmen from port to port, forever associating madness with the liminal mystery…

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two squirrels in a pine tree

June 30, 2021 forrestwolfe

EXT YARD.  Two squirrels in a pine tree. – that’s it. – it’s what. – the thinking’s not. – are…

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