As I periodically do, I am re-reading Gregory Shaw’s gorgeous book “Theurgy and the Soul”: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus”.  I first read it years ago, doing the undergrad work for my second BA, this one in Religious Studies rather than Anthropology as was the first.  I remember the sense of astounding revelation of that first…

So, I fled from Gatineau to my daughter’s in Toronto because of the flood. While the apartment building I live in was still high and dry, I was surrounded by water on all four sides. And across the main highway, where there is a cycle and pedestrian path, that path had been flooded to the…