If you have lived long enough or experienced life deeply enough, you may find the uninvited and unwelcome presence of an unlived life. Often dwelling and developing in our unconscious, the recognition of the unlived life threatens to obliterate the fictions of our lived life. If we are not careful to integrate these fictions and stay conscious to our yearnings, then we are in danger of falling prey to a crisis.
Practicing Eternity
“…time passes more quickly than man is able to live, and that life is terrible, because everything in it is necessarily doomed to extinction…” — Milan Kundera “Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead” Contrary to prevailing beliefs, becoming a sage or a doyenne is not a goal or aspiration, it […]
Proof of Life
Palingenesis (/ˌpælɪnˈdʒɛnəsɪs/) From the Greek palin, meaning ‘again’, and genesis, meaning ‘birth’. It represents the concept of rebirth or re-creation; a new beginning; to begin again. “Is it over yet?” “How about now?” “Has it been satiated?” The absurd quality of hope is still cast across the landscape of my mind, ever active, ceaselessly in […]