Losing my faith was a difficult experience. It happened when I was seventeen, mere weeks from my Confirmation into the Catholic Church, and was the culmination of a process that had begun years earlier. I had many questions about the world; the answers provided by my heritage religion did not satisfy me. I left Catholicism and closed myself off to most ideas about the transcendental. In hindsight, it is clear that my rejection of the faith was damaging in its own way. I spent many years suffering from profound existential pain and living nihilistically in a way that almost led to my ruin. In my darkest moment, however, I decided once more to pursue answers to the questions that had preoccupied me in my youth. I read extensively about many topics. In time, I started to formulate my own ideas about the universe and what lies beyond it. Now, I am ready to share what I have learned to help others in the crafting of meaning.
Perhaps the way to engage and investigate the Empyrean is through direct, pre-conceptual/symbolic experience, i.e., the dynamic, ever-present now. I grant that we can and must pull out explanation, which can only be mediated by the symbolic/conceptual. This is why art is the necessary medium of the sublime.
Perhaps the way to engage and investigate the Empyrean is through direct, pre-conceptual/symbolic experience, i.e., the dynamic, ever-present now. I grant that we can and must pull out explanation, which can only be mediated by the symbolic/conceptual. This is why art is the necessary medium of the sublime.
We should talk soon.
This is beautiful.
Thanks Suehiko. Definitely, let's talk soon.
This is beautiful
Thank you, Ed 🙏🏼
Perhaps it makes sense to link this here:
https://suehiko.substack.com/p/damascus-path-revisited