MY BLOG
This blog is devoted to a study of modern cultural phenomena such as contemporary art, movies, books, plays, politics, news, social media, etc. My…
JOHN’S BLOG
Do You Read? Really Read?
I read a lot! I always have. I read the few English “classics” in my mother’s library well before my teens. They were just there…
What Matters?
I dreamed last night: I am to give a talk to a group of students, others.The atmosphere is friendly and eager. I am to give…
Holy Grail
My recent essay Holy Grail: Beyond the Brain is my latest attempt to find a literary method for expressing the simultaneity of the depths of interiority…
Black Vortex
Many years ago, during the time that I had been rudely drafted into the question of the end of the world, I suffered the following…
Near Death Experience
Sometimes you must wait for many years to get further hints from the “beyond” after having a particular dream or vision. In 2011 I dreamed…
The Mother
You want it darker?…. Leonard Cohen Many people tuning into the looming catastrophe are focussing on our relations to the Mother, or mother nature. There…