Witness, NM

Tag: the-machine

  • Recovering Sight

    Recovering Sight

    A final reflective essay This is an essay I wrote for my Mysticism: East and West course. It’s essentially a final exam. I spent a lot of time on it and thought it’d be good to share as an example of reorientation: moving beyond pure reason and abstraction, and taking steps toward re-enchantment. Praxis is…

  • If A, Then A

    If A, Then A

    Law of Forgiveness “For if ye forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not men their transgressions, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions” (The Gospel According to St. Matthew 6:14-15). The Sermon on the Mount changed my life. Nothing compares. While Pentecost restored what was broken…

  • Untitled: C Minor

    Untitled: C Minor

    What’s interesting is madness The comic book writer, Alan Moore, on his fortieth birthday decided “rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a mid-life crisis I decided it might actually be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician. This had…

  • Untitled: F Diminished

    Untitled: F Diminished

    Clearing My Throat “Quite honestly, they seem to have been quite a different breed of men. In those days people seem to have been animated by one idea, but now they are much more nervous, more developed, more sensitive – they seem to be animated by two or three ideas at a time – modern…