Celluloid Caesar: “So, is Megalopolis a miraculous comeback to Coppola’s 1970s quality? No. Of course not. It’s absolutely as horrible as everybody says it is.”
Make California Red Again: “The future is still invented in California and its influence on global culture remains critically important. California remains one of the most naturally beautiful places on Earth, and its coastal regions boast a perfect climate. On a better timeline California is as close to a utopia as human beings can create. ”
The Everlasting Man: “[GK] Chesterton thought a resurgence would indeed come…because…the Church can never die. ‘It is already clear,’ he concludes, in another of his characteristic paradoxes, ‘and it grows clearer every day, that it is not going to end in the disappearance of the diminished creed; but rather in the return of those parts of it that had really disappeared.’”
The Mainframe Behind Your Dreams: “[on] the Jungian concept of Synchronicity. In his famous example:
“…The image of a scarab beetle had appeared in patient’s dream and as she told Jung about it, a scarab-like beetle appeared at the window of his consulting room.”
A scarab —a representation holding a pattern— appears during mediation —the artificial structure and methodology of psychoanalysis, moving through thresholds of the psyche— revealing a rhythm as a moment of conjunction —synchronicity— which both reveals and initiates the patient to the pattern it [the scarab] represents while also the psychoanalyst to the pattern of how the pattern is revealed. The medium becomes the message —i.e.: that reality itself is a representative medium.”
The Red Hand Files: “I experience a certain vague ‘spiritualness’ within the world’s chaos, an approximate understanding that God is implicit in some latent, metaphysical way, yet it is only really in church – that profoundly fallible human institution – that I become truly spiritually liberated. I am swept up in a poetic story that is both true and imaginative and fully participatory, where my spiritual imagination can be both contained and free. The church may appear to some as small, even stifling, its congregation herdlike, yet within its architecture, music, litanies, and stories, I find a place of immense spiritual recognition and liberation.”