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Derrida was aware that there were two suns, the literal sun and the Platonic sun representing the Good. Derrida notes that, for Plato, the Good was a nocturnal source of all light-"the light of light beyond light."

Etymologically, at our third level of elaboration, the word “acorn” is related to “acre,” “act,” and “agent.” “Acorn” derives most closely from Old High German akern (fruit, produce), not merely as a seed but as an already fulfilled fruition. Actus (action, activity, agency) is associated with “acorn” so that the acorn must be understood as an

The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence—even distinct personalities—that live within us.

Of course we are going to have a shadow! St. Augustine, in The City of God, thundered, ’To act is to sin.” To create is to destroy at the same moment. We cannot make light without a corresponding darkness. India balances Brahma, the god of creation, with Shiva, the god of destruction, and Vishnu sits in the middle keeping the opposites together. No

A more substantive potential use of words to enhance our lives is the lost art of conversation. Utilitarian ideologies in the past two centuries or so have convinced us that the main purpose of talking is to convey useful information. Thus we now value terse communication that conveys practical knowledge, and consider anything else a frivolous