the somniloquism of theology

after 4 decades...
theologians discussing "God" are like people asleep unaware they are in a dream

the theologies of children

the simple believer may naively assume a "loving, fatherly 'God'", while modern theologians naively -- and all-too-seriously -- assume that their words of and about "God" are more than speculating about they know not what

mirror mirror on the all

Otto's ideas of the numinous experience, speculative as it is, is another example of man's self-reflection of himself. self-mirroring.

the physical sublime in "Into the Mind"

Dramatic, almost impossible filming of extreme skiing in steep mountains...

more aptly named "Into the Emotions"...
by and for those for whom "gnarly and "awesome" are adequate articulations of peak experiences among peaks -- once described as "sublime", pictureque.
the  desire, the need for intense experience -- "extreme" -- not contemplation of the sublime, but the need now to experience it at the edge of death, thrill, danger...

Unconvincingly collaged around a loosely-construed idea of 13-stage initiation a la Tibet.

Don't expect to need use your mind in "Into the Mind". But see incredible risk-taking...

the science of religion...

was a dead end street which some are still trying to map

Isaiah 6:3 Holy, Holy, Holy...?

rather, I say, uhhh...
'Silly, silly, silly, is the Lord of Earth, the whole world is full of his story.'

abandon hope all ye who enter

Kant

two apples

would be interesting to muse on the origins, histories and currencies of human "default (un)consciousnesses", from Eve's to Job's...

sacred Red Square?

a Duma deputy has it seems described Red Square as sacred ground...

...it is pretty $afe to $ay that -- a$ide from the ground$ and propertie$ of the rich and powerful of Ru$$ia -- that little can be agreed to a$ $acred in Mo$cow the$e day$.

anti-multiculturalism as an English lesson in Moscow

overheard a lesson in a Starbucks by an American who likely didn't suspect it was a native-speaker sitting within good hearing range.

an English lesson lambasting the USA, including admitting "freely" (to his cute Russia student) that he is an anti-multiculturalist and a racist...and how "20,000,000 Mexicans" are ruining America... "which doesn't really exist as a country anyway now"... and blacks have five kids with five different fathers for benefits... about how he and his indifferent (East) Indian neighbor in the USA don't speak, having nothing in common... something against the Chinese...

an odd English lesson in Moscow on a Saturday afternoon