Piers Plowman

14th Century English genius.

Eid al-Adha 2018

A nice photo essay from 2011.

On Roads Of Silk

In his Contributions to Philosophy, Martin Heidegger shows how Euro-American civilization, forgetful of philosophy’s foundational question (“Why is there something rather than nothing?”) and incapable of countenancing the mystic’s refusal of philosophy (“What is, is the Abyss”) is beside itself, flailing about like a wounded animal.

The Reality TV Presidency is not an aberration but the fulfillment of what Heidegger named "the age of the complete absence of questioning" (pp. 86-87). Like it or not, Donald Trump is the culmination of Western civilization.

Under these conditions, the Cheerful Nihilist embraces the ever-present absence of the divine and attempts to counter the present age with "an age of that simple solitude" that watches and waits while those caught up in the throes of "machination"--the capitalistic reduction of all value to quantity and commodity--devour one another and then themselves in the fury of their impotence to make something out of nothing.

And then he sets out on Roads of Silk...

I Am A Poor Pilgrim

Old Regular Baptists.

The Silk Road Imaginary

A civilization of/in motion.

Ralph Stanley

Clouds Of Mystery Pourin'...

As long as I remember
The rain's been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin'
Confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages
Tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain?
I went down Virginia
Seekin' shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five year plans and new deals
Wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain?
Heard the singers playin'
How we cheered for more
The crowd then rushed together
Tryin' to keep warm
Still the rain kept pourin'
Fallin' through the years
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain?

~ John Fogerty

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The Only Meaningful Life

The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization--absolute and unconditional--of its own particular law...To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being...he has failed to realize his life's meaning...

~ Carl Jung, The Development of Personality.

Silk Roads

Smithsonian.



Revival I.

Revival II.

No Thing Lasts

Absolute truths are few and far between and consist of double-edged swords.

The Holy Land Of Khorasan

The Holy City Of Shiraz

Shah Cheragh



Nasir al-Molk



Shiraz gardens



Vakil bath



Hafez shrine



Antique Shiraz kilim



Shiraz grapes.