“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” Immanuel Kant
"I find it quite interesting that the word “person” was originally used to designate a “mask” or a “false face” in ancient Greece. It came to be used in the context of drama as an “assumed character”; eventually this linguistic usage stuck in our common language to designate a human being. Perhaps this is because life and the works of art work very similar. There seems to be some sort of script that we follow in order to operate in society. Even if we don’t follow any script that has been given to us from the outside, there is always an internal construction of who we are, an identity. We can change this construction, but we can never get rid of it. This is why there is always a reinvention and not a suppression of the self. Ideally, a self that is flexible, comprehensive and compassionate. We possess hyper complex structures that allow us to create our own self, we are autopoietic beings (from auto-self, and poiesis-creation). We create unique entities, with unique stories within a broader story. This means that we, as individual, have three functions, as described by the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri: as agents, authors and actors. As agents, we execute the actions; as authors, we choose creatively over other possible actions; and as actors, we are inscribed in a broader reality that surpass us, but where we can make an impact. Just like “pure” reality can never be seen because it is seen in a particular way (with our eyes, a specific band of colors, etc.), we can never be without a mask. Behind every mask there is a mask. What mask do we want to wear? Personally, I wish to wear a magical one. When somebody asks us: who are you? We respond with our name, or occupation and things of that sort. But why don’t we say that we are someone who dreams of such things? Why don’t we respond that we are a child of the universe who dances to the sound of the singing air? Why don’t we respond that we are, under construction?"
I don't know what happened, but I woke up this past Saturday with a really bad fever. Whatever I had hit me like a freight truck. I was really sick for three days and on the mend for two. This is my third day being on the mend and I still feel like holy crap. I want to start doing some stuff but I just don't have any energy at all. Man, actually I think I'm going to have to wrap this post up and just say hello, and let you know I'll write more later.
Hey guys! I just wanted to let ya'll know that I haven't abandoned this blog...actually, I will probably maintain this blog the rest of my life. It's my personal online journal and it helps me sometimes to write here. It's just that I recently remembered that back in 2007 when I started this blog, I had started two other blogs as well. It took me a little bit of time to remember how to log in to them, but I finally did. I had to do a little cleaning and redesigning, but I started them back up. I am keeping this blog as a personal journal type blog. One of the other blogs is an ongoing work of fiction. I want it to be completely anonymous, so I'm not sharing the name of the blog or anything on here....sorry....if you happen to find it then great, I hope you like it and keep going back, but otherwise I want to remain anonymous on it. The other one is strictly for sharing my spiritual journey. I am trying to develop a community of spiritual seekers by sharing my story and the knowledge of spiritual things that I have acquired. I will share it with you guys...here's a link. Oracle In The Wind Anyway, that's why I haven't posted anything on here for awhile. I've been doing a lot of work on it. I was doing a google image search the other day and I think I had typed in, magickal element of fire or something like that. I didn't find any images I could use for the article I was doing, but I did run across some cool pictures that I want to share. I don't know what they are, what their name is or who the artist is....sorry....if anybody knows then please make a comment and let me know. Here they are:
