there’s this dream, then I’m awake.
Posted in Basic Ideology on Mar 1st, 2010
I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover — and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you…
-Dr. Hunter [...]
Posted in poetry on Feb 8th, 2010
The Tetragrammaton is irreversible.
I cannot see the light.
To force the Holy into action.
To bring His presence
back into Creation.
I know your name.
But you are not your
brothers’ keeper.
Consecration
spreads it’s wings.
It is the force that
turns the world.
It is the change
that time cannot deny.
It is the dream
that you never forget.
It is the Shaman
with no regrets.
Jack
I Listen.
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Wow, I had no idea how long it had been since I had posted an entry here. What can I say, sometimes life just catches up with you.
This is not to say that I stopped writing all together. I’ve made a lot of headway on my two big fiction projects, The [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Dec 11th, 2009
The way of the Sufi is to embrace the joy of the essence of God in everything, and every aspect of everything. The best times and the worst times. Rumi expresses this supreme joy:
I am a lover of both His benevolence and severity!
Amazing it is that I’m in love with these opposites!
Jack
I [...]
Posted in Fragments on Nov 13th, 2009
This was originally published at The Entropy Report, back in May of 2008. I bring it to the forefront with great pleasure. If you’d like to see the original, click here.
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The Fear permeates the city with a dense fog in the mornings. As the day lingers, the fog dissipates, but the Fear just [...]
Posted in Fragments on Oct 18th, 2009
Sometimes I feel like my life is so full of stories, my stories, and the stories of others. So full that I cannot pick just one to write. My brain floods, and sometimes part of a story floats to the top. Then it pours down through my fingers in waves that translate [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Oct 15th, 2009
What is Ideology?
In the simplest of terms, ideology is the study of ideas.
In the previous philosophical series, Developmental Theology 089, we talked about very basic ideas that can help develop an open mind, and teach us how to create our own philosophical views, overlooking prior prejudices. You can read the entire Developmental [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Aug 15th, 2009
I’m working on a set of articles for the Basic Ideology 101 series that covers dominant and popular ideologies in use around the world today. These articles will be in-depth, but, hopefully, easy to understand.
We will talk about philosophies, religious views, politics, and cultures. Along with ideologies you may already be [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Jul 28th, 2009
The tracks always come back. Rumi. Shams. Wine and Dance and God. Was there ever really anything else? Since I first discovered Sufism as an adolescent, the dervish spin never left me. The idea that one can get so close, become so consumed in the flame, and love every [...]
Posted in Fragments on Jun 24th, 2009
Richard Matheson wrote What Dreams May Come in 1978, as a love story to his wife. It pops up every so often in my life, and reminds me of the things that I love, and gives me hope. I may disappear from time to time, but it is within my nature to run. [...]
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