Crisis & Narrative
I wrote my book, Speech of the Unknown Future in 2016: There is today a surfeit of cultural practices, oriented towards the posited future, merely…
Category: Books
The Modern Spiritual Task
You’re afraid of the imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and…
On Connectivity
The numinous is, very simply, the experience of the impossible in our lives. And that raw impossibility somehow never fits too well into human systems.…
Conversations with John
Here is the first of a series of videos in which Natalie Zeituny interviews me. She is the author of Ensoulment: Discover Your Soul’s DNA,…
How Deep The Well?
My 2018 story, The Sage of Underwood, takes place in a setting that I call The Rocks. It’s a real place, so very close to ordinary…
MY BLOG
This blog is devoted to a study of modern cultural phenomena such as contemporary art, movies, books, plays, politics, news, social media, science, etc.…