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A Higher Order of Relationship Altogether (opens the original)
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We begin with reflections on what’s left out of current conversations around the Odyssey after Christopher Nolan’s reboot. Is it possible to see the good news in the groundwater of contemporary discourse? How might we adopt a position of hanging back, looking as if to see, letting the message behind the messaging come through? These questions lead us into Cameron’s backstory as an investigative crime reporter receiving messages from and writing poetry alongside the dead in the Deep South of the
‘Tending to the bonds between the seen and unseen worlds’ (opens the original)
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What is the relationship between mystical experience on drugs and spiritual awakening that happens when sober? What does it mean to look back upon a life of addiction, drug use, and “being the worst version of oneself” and to see that even the rock bottoms were supposed to be there? Is there a way to express the inevitability of one’s path without affirming what looks like “trauma for one’s own good?”1 What is the use of understanding one’s mundane suffering and spiritual realizations as part of
Wake Up, Underworld! (opens the original)
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Hello from beautiful Montana. We’ve spent an unexpected week here on the Blackfeet Reservation, where my husband’s family is from, and in Glacier Park. My husband took the week off chemo, my son took his first week off first-grade, I scrambled to make sure I could have access to WiFi to teach my classes and then still had to reschedule a class. My daughter is happy to be along for the ride. We came out here for days of an Indian funeral on the reservation and then to hike around beneath the moun
We are already AI (opens the original)
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The Little Prince asks the pilot to draw a sheep but the pilot cannot draw a sheep. Instead, the pilot draws a box, inside which a sheep sleeps. This box delights the Little Prince, perhaps delights him more than a drawing of a sheep might have. Later, Levinas alights on the pleasure of the box drawn in place of the failure to draw a sheep: “The abstract drawi
'What moves may always rise' (opens the original)
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I wrote recently of encounters with Hermes and Aphrodite:1 “When the Gods show up and aren’t acknowledged or met as such, they come out sideways, slant, as pathology, illness, madness. As the wonderful writer and therapist Jane Clapp emphasized recently, this doesn’t mean we try to cultivate relationships with them, never mind with their Shadows, to ‘pur… <a href="https://steelecs.substack.com
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