I know I said I would get back to my spiritual rantings after some Whitman songs, yet the poetic interlude continues. Before I get back to my rogue wisdom, you have to swear you're ready to listen. Maybe you'll listen to somebody with some real clout, some real authority, such as Nobel prize winning poet… Continue reading Under Ben Bulben by W.B. Yeats
Hello friends, Let's take a Whitmanian interlude before season 2 of my spiritual rantings kicks off. I've been thinking about doing an all-Whitman podcast. Uncut Leaves of Grass. What do you think, dear listener? I started doing readings of Song of Myself because this is the way it sounded to me when I read it,… Continue reading Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Sections 1-8
"I used to think that nothing mattered. Now I know precisely the opposite is true: that everything matters. A human being reproduces the world every single day. . ."
Join me as I conclude my interview-recitation with Soren Kierkegaard, who came back from the dead to read "The Expectancy of Faith," an upbuilding discourse published in 1843. It goes without saying that this is an exclusive interview with Kierkegaard, who appears only through the refraction of subjectivity and the legacy of an eternal consciousness.… Continue reading Episode 9.8 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – The Last Part
Poetic interlude within Episode 9, the recitation-interview with Soren Kierkegaard reading "The Expectancy of Faith." Although I can never orate this poem as beautifully as it is written, as perfectly as it is written, I give it a few solid tries, and create some little wind of my own, even if I'm unable to hit… Continue reading Episode 9.75 – Interlude – Spirit Bits #1593 by Emily Dickinson
Part 3 of my interview-recitation with Soren Kierkegaard begins at the central pivot point of the essay, the upbuilding discourse we've been following along with, "The Expectancy of Faith," published in 1843. The preamble has ended; now Kierkegaard begins to unfold the primary thesis, as clear as day. You could really start the essay here,… Continue reading Episode 9.6 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – Part 3
Special guest Soren Kierkegaard continues reading "The Expectancy of Faith," an upbuilding discourse exploring the meaning of religious faith, the central subject of Kierkegaard's authorship. The text is from 1843, the very beginning of Kierkegaard's published works, a good starting point to encounter his thinking about faith. This starting point will lay the groundwork to… Continue reading Episode 9.3 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – Part 2
Have you ever wanted to read the 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, because of his reputation and respect among other philosophers? Wittgenstein, to quote one off the top of my head, called Kierkegaard "the most profound philosopher of the 19th century," and Heidegger claimed that Kierkegaard's religious speeches were as philosophically significant as his… Continue reading Episode 9 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – Part 1
I'm not trying to save anybody. I'm saying that absolute unity is real, in all these different ways of pointing to it. That's what I'm doing. Do you say absolute unity is real? What are you going to do about it? I honestly want to know, specifically.
Hello listener-seeker, This episode focuses on my aims for the podcast, as I reflect on a few turning points from my intellectual history that led me to hold the beliefs I do today. I discuss the anxiety of knowledge, the impossibility of God, and then tell a story about one of my best pithy sayings.… Continue reading Episode 8 – An Address to the Listener-Seeker
Anarcho-spiritual discourses and upbuilding speeches 