It is our good fortune to have such an abundance of metamorphic rocks in our midst, with insights to share not only about their origins but everything they’ve experienced since. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that they are responsive, even sentient, in that they ‘perceive’ their surroundings and change in response. Their stories are genuinel... See more

Julie: “Did I give you the car keys?”

Current AJ: “I don’t have a memory of it, but it’s possible.”

And then I’ll spend a few seconds searching for keys in my backpack. Sometimes I even find them there.

It has always struck me as the greatest spiritual irony that the most recalcitrant locks that we encounter are those on the outside of the gates of paradise, those that insist to God that He remain beyond our world behind gates we have barred against Him. And there on the outside, we can rant and rage against all the injustice of our world and all ... See more

[Ideal Husband movie]

As the art historian Jennifer Roberts argued several years ago, “Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.” Or, as she also puts it, just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it.

If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not... See more

[Breach is] the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own. The longer our unexpressed desires and rages swir... See more