Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 is the prototype of concerting perfection. The orchestra being the woman; the piano, the man; their music together, lovemaking.
A Viable, Contemporary Neopaganism
Praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary conjures up much earlier goddesses, too, of which she has become, so to speak, a repository. None of this was clear to me until about fifteen years ago, and I still marvel at this neopagan phenomenon in disguise.
Prelude to the Metaphysics of Ping-Pong
One summer the philosopher of science Rupert Sheldrake and his family paid us a visit. I gave the two boys rackets: they were hooked. They now have a table of their own. Whenever we visit, we play for hours. Eventually, we realized what was intriguing us: the fact that ping-pong is
strikingly non-Euclidean.
Two Takes on New Age, with an Introduction
Like the Renaissance Hermetism that hoped to restore peace and sanity to warring mankind, the New Age movement is
ecumenical, undogmatic and pacifist. But if the New Age is all about awakening, why does it put me to sleep?
Think of the Peaceful Cat — Reflections on Initiation
After a very long initiation, I've come to the conclusion that
initiation is overrated. The problem with any initiatic journey
is initiation itself: Why, after all, is it necessary? Why are we never content in our own skin?
The Importance of Living: Lin Yutang meets the Dude – An Esoteric Take on The Big Lebowski, pt. 2
As I was re-reading Lin Yutang's
masterwork, I found so many passages that seem
custom-made for the Dude that I thought it might be fun to explore the
points of departure and arrival of both works, in tandem. To do that, I
need to start from the not-so-distant premises that prompted Lin Yutang
himself, back in 1937, to write his book.
An Esoteric Take on The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is the kind of miracle that slips through the cracks of the Hollywood machinery. But what is the Big Lebowski Meaning?
