Plato's contemplation on beast mastery puts me in mind of something that perhaps runs parallel to spiritual development, that being language development. In other words, I think that in order to clear the path towards genuine spiritual enlightenment, we need better words and art forms to describe our condition of being. At the moment, I believe our degraded language and inverted understanding of causality is like an impassable wall, past which we cannot examine let alone describe the divine spirit that animates us. I think the production of more useful language to penetrate that wall is one of the things I'm trying to do with my own work.
Oh definitely, in many ways we lack the very words and concepts to even think about such things. I guess it's a matter of (re)conquering these concepts, relating them to actual experience, and then trying our best to express them. I feel that part of the solution is actually to use old words like spirit, soul, divine etc. unashamedly and as if we all knew exactly what we're talking about. Because in a sense, we do - intuitively. It's just that materialist dogma and also theological dogma tend to muddy the waters and separate us from these concepts somewhat.
A gripping piece, Luc. Thanks.
Plato's contemplation on beast mastery puts me in mind of something that perhaps runs parallel to spiritual development, that being language development. In other words, I think that in order to clear the path towards genuine spiritual enlightenment, we need better words and art forms to describe our condition of being. At the moment, I believe our degraded language and inverted understanding of causality is like an impassable wall, past which we cannot examine let alone describe the divine spirit that animates us. I think the production of more useful language to penetrate that wall is one of the things I'm trying to do with my own work.
Oh definitely, in many ways we lack the very words and concepts to even think about such things. I guess it's a matter of (re)conquering these concepts, relating them to actual experience, and then trying our best to express them. I feel that part of the solution is actually to use old words like spirit, soul, divine etc. unashamedly and as if we all knew exactly what we're talking about. Because in a sense, we do - intuitively. It's just that materialist dogma and also theological dogma tend to muddy the waters and separate us from these concepts somewhat.