You might have noticed that my blog now has a “donate” button on it.  The idea is to fund myself as a researcher, writer and teacher through donations from interested parties, to whom I would send, via email, longer essays and monographs.  We haven’t worked out all the details yet.  Those of my acquaintance who…

Very recently the Mariensky Ballet company came to our town and I rather desperately wanted to go   –  but, alas,  could not.  I ended up going to see the movie, Black Swan, instead and, just to salve my wounded spirit further, rented out from the SML, the video of the Royal Ballet version of Swan…

In my first post, I stated that “Immanential Devotions” held to a “lateral” orientation rather than a “vertical’ one.  I have since been asked to clarify that idea. Again, it’s easier to think about this in comparison. Transcendental meditation, like prayer, is directed upward (by definition: beyond the immediate environment), the “sender” is an individual in an…

What in the world are “Immanential Devotions”?  The best way to explain what they are is to reference them to “transcendental meditations” from which they are opposite; rather than being about the sacred beyond the manifest cosmos, the immanent sacred is about the divine within the cosmos, in particular about the divine in the immediate…