The world's darkening never reaches to the light of Being.
As I said yesterday, one never knows where these image, word and music combinations come from. But they come from somewhere. I believe too much in Synchronicity for them to be purely random.
IMAGE: Our star (Sol) is just about to set on Greens Beach in a Tasmanian Autumn. The world is just about to go into lock down (March 14, 2020). The mood is as ominous (note the origin of this word) as the very low clouds that seem to be pressing in upon the viewer. Soon the light darkens suddenly and a golden glow bathes the beach (I'll show you that one tomorrow).
MUSIC: Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is an Estonian composer. Eastern Orthodox by faith, he is a truly innovative composer - especially for human voice - in the minimalist style. In this piece, "Spiegel im Spiegel" (Mirror in the Mirror), the cello assumes the role of the human voice. Its haunting melody is enhanced by the mirroring effect (like being in a musical hall of mirrors). I like to think of it as an Antiphonal Prayer, where the worshippers respond by repeating a line in the liturgy. The purest prayer is poetic. "Speigel im Speigel" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc
WORDS: The title I have chosen comes from the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1989-1976). I won't go into the details of Heidegger's vexed life, but he was for all his faults one of the greatest philosophers since Plato. A man intimately concerned with the question of Being and how one might find hope and meaning in a world where "the gods...have left the world, the evening of the world's age has been declining toward its night."
In such a world it is the responsibility of each individual to find their way to the Light. So in poetic form Heidegger writes:
"The world's darkening never reaches to the light of Being.
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
Being's poem, just begun, is man.
To head toward a star - this only.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky."
The world's darkening never reaches to the light of Being.
As I said yesterday, one never knows where these image, word and music combinations come from. But they come from somewhere. I believe too much in Synchronicity for them to be purely random.
IMAGE: Our star (Sol) is just about to set on Greens Beach in a Tasmanian Autumn. The world is just about to go into lock down (March 14, 2020). The mood is as ominous (note the origin of this word) as the very low clouds that seem to be pressing in upon the viewer. Soon the light darkens suddenly and a golden glow bathes the beach (I'll show you that one tomorrow).
MUSIC: Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is an Estonian composer. Eastern Orthodox by faith, he is a truly innovative composer - especially for human voice - in the minimalist style. In this piece, "Spiegel im Spiegel" (Mirror in the Mirror), the cello assumes the role of the human voice. Its haunting melody is enhanced by the mirroring effect (like being in a musical hall of mirrors). I like to think of it as an Antiphonal Prayer, where the worshippers respond by repeating a line in the liturgy. The purest prayer is poetic. "Speigel im Speigel" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc
WORDS: The title I have chosen comes from the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1989-1976). I won't go into the details of Heidegger's vexed life, but he was for all his faults one of the greatest philosophers since Plato. A man intimately concerned with the question of Being and how one might find hope and meaning in a world where "the gods...have left the world, the evening of the world's age has been declining toward its night."
In such a world it is the responsibility of each individual to find their way to the Light. So in poetic form Heidegger writes:
"The world's darkening never reaches to the light of Being.
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
Being's poem, just begun, is man.
To head toward a star - this only.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky."