Westcliffe, Colorado

Silence

George Winston: Autumn - Full Album

George Winston: December - Full Album

Turkey

Ethiopia

Holy man.

Have Yourself A Gnostic Little Christmas

Korba St., Cairo

Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards Men, Blah Blah Blah...

Save the platitudes for the Kool-Aid drinkers.

STOP THE BOMBING.

Essential Reading

First, an expose on the works of Yaldabaoth:



Second, a primer on the Other Beginning:

Feast Of Fools

Get ready!

In To The City

Stories As Prayer

LARB Interview with Harold Bloom.

Coin Of The Realm

Yaldabaoth

You cannot expect a people lacking in self-respect to respect others.

When you consider the mass commodification of American life, and the general acceptance of this condition by the public at large, everything about this country (the fast-food culture, the deterioration of the educational system, the militarization of the economy, all of the self-delusional discourses of liberal democracy) makes perfect sense.

Yaldabaoth is in his heaven and Donald Trump is President; what else would you expect?

Credo: Because All Men Are Brothers

Lawrence Durrell

Who are they, then, these people? They are those who are born and re-born again unlike the Many. They recognize each other when they meet without a word being exchanged. They belong to the vertigo of nothingness, having emerged from the root of all dissent. The thrust of their souls is towards the moon of non-being, their God is he who no longer exists. How can they hope to make themselves understood? Reason is powerless--for this kind of understanding can only be soundless, wordless, breathless. Its meaning is as precarious as reality itself.

~ Monsieur, p. 119.

Child Of The Wind

How To Read And Why

Harold Bloom.

Masters Of Gnosis

Hasan Shushud


Jacques Lacarriere


Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Interview - Australian Radio

Jacques Lacarriere

Author, critic, wanderer.

Harold Bloom Interview On RTÉ

Tinariwen ( IO:I) - Sastanàqqàm

Encore: Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life (1989)

A Bloomian "School" Of Religious Criticism

When Harold Bloom published Omens of Millennium in 1996, I bought it hot off the press and read it eagerly. I must confess, however, that my first reading of the book did not impress me favorably. At the time, I suspected that Bloom was venturing into waters beyond his depth and pandering to the popular taste for New Age mystifications for the sake of increased sales.

I have since re-read the book at least a half-dozen times and, with every reading, my admiration for it grows ever deeper. A fine, critical and academic appreciation may be found here.

All I wish to say at present is that Bloom's Omens is a superb example of the "religious criticism" he undertook with The American Religion and developed further with Jesus and Yahweh. Indeed, those three volumes, read as a trilogy, constitute (the author's own wishes to the contrary) the foundation of a Bloomian "school" of Religious Criticism.

Harold Bloom Interview On NPR

The NPR interviewer is no match for the erudite Professor Bloom.