Søren Kierkegaard is clear and concise. He understood the life of the spirit better than most. Unfortunately he is often overlooked in preference to Nietzsche. & may I mention that Kierkegaard’s insights about Faith is relevant to all religions.
The End of the World sung by Skeeter Davis
This song is one of the best out there and I am a sucker for country music…so when I found it in the horror sci-fi movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Under the Dome, I couldn’t but share it with you, my reader. Thank you for listening in.
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
This is one of Auden’s most beautiful but under-anthologized poems. The beauty of the poem is undercut by great sorrow since “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”.
The Apostle, junk it for some other better horror experience
The Apostle is an insensitive, cheap gore-filled movie which it is not even remotely what it is touted to be online: it is neither original nor material for cult horror.
Spring and Fall by Fr. Hopkins SJ
Hopkins knew the fleeting/hardening nature of Samsara. In this poem, which is not very well known, Fr. Hopkins is at his best as a practitioner of Sprung Rhythm and as a follower of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The world turns, while the Cross is still.
Hermeneutics, St. Augustine of Hippo & Tantra (On Tantra continued and to be continued)
In this 2nd part of the series on Tantra, we look at St. Augustine and the Postmoderns like Derrida and John Caputo to gradually frame a hermeneutics of Tantra.
