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| Hello, Laura, | |||||||
| Well, you certainly seem to have a lot of experience getting to know yourself and I admire that. To be honest, I don't really know what "new age" or any organized religion really is - this is one time I can honestly say that I use the term in a pejorative manner, pejorative meaning it refers to all things that simply don't interest me. The fact is, I believe it is self-defeating to have any kind of meaningful conversation about spirituality while at the same time trying to define it since all of civilization has spent thousands of years doing this and will spend thousands more. This, to me, is hedonism, the art of civilisation, or humanism or nativism or animism or bohemianism, they all mean the same thing to me. If I must say, new age and othe religious cults sublimate their religious instinct and many other healthy libidonal needs in order to build a simpler smaller platonic cave inside the real one. This act in itself, is very creative, and should lead to what Monical Sjoo refers to as a "respelling" of the world - what art does when it is in any way fulfilling, what we all do as adults to indivituate our world and the "world's". This is basic Jungian psychology. However, for lack of a better term, people involved in religious cults and those with other non-understandable personality deviations (I know this is tricky and opinionated territory so I'm sticking my neck out a little here) just don't seem to complete this process, and the possible reasons why absolutely fascinate me for the added reason that I believe it can reveal many things about my own personality development ie i think we are all in some way "deviants" in this respect, but some people maybe never deviate back to main path. I mean, I justify my linguist and creative obsessions by calling it "art" but I can't begin to know at this point in my life just what I have sacrificed in order to follow my passions (really). I think I have always lived on that fine line between passion and obsession because that is where everything becomes "as one" as you say. I believe that there really is a mainstream and that cultural architecture (from physical to idealogical to technological) completely regulates how we perceive the world (our ontologies). In this sense free will is completely out the window for me but in the same sense we each our endowed with divine creative will - a paradox, but humour and love wait there, too. Why do I always end up going on like this? | |||||||
| I always think to myself, "artists are madly in life" because I am. I am literally always crazy in love. I can't help it. That's just the way I've always been for me, so I don't understand what you call "mature" love. I don't think love is ever mature, I think it is always changing, like the universe and so is eternally youthfull. Rock on and all that. But, then, I myself am a study in paradoxes because I am typically very laid back and constantly being accused of being "mature" lol. I'm really not trying to be arguementative. Actually it's been a long day and I do find your comments insightful and as peaceful as you say you feel (or felt). I hope I don't give you the impression that I arrogantly think I am speaking to someone with any kind of closed mind waiting for me to bring the word down from the mountain top. I, too, recognize that there isn't enough space in the human psyche to fit all we do not know, so , then, isn't this all (all our words and actions) gospel/liturgy? Is this not the only ritualistic paradigm that can possibly make sense in a senseless world? Are we not always praying to whatever life force is listening and letting our bodies do their dance and ore not we the one's that must listen to humanity's prayers and have the courage to answer them with the courage to redifine the human mass, the human form? I love artists and I love humans in the religious sense and "I just can't fight it". Even when I hate them I love them, don't we all? | |||||||
| would you rather i just erase all this and say, HI, How are you, Laura. How was your week? | |||||||
| How was your week? You sound really well as does your relationship. My god, I would never talk like this if I knew you personally. I always find it a little embarassing being so intellectually self-indulgent with another person let alone another artist but I'm sure you're just nodding your head and smiling (or I hope). | |||||||
| Anyway. same old same old. Only the seasons change in the beautiful Fraser Valley. | |||||||
| I've seen many great flicks of late that I would much rather discuss but I would much rather hear about how you are doing, which is what you were doing in your previous e-mail before you dared to invite me into this spiritual quagmire lol. (yeah, laura, it's your fault I write/talk so much). Please for the love of dear sweet jesus tell me I'm all wrong and put me out of my misery;) | |||||||
| Take care, and write soon | |||||||
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