Category: metaphysics
-
Dancing with Genius, Dancing with Madness (in Honor of Jalaluddin Rumi)
(Rumi Visions II CD cover art by Marvin Mattelson) I think of Genius and Madness as being very much like a twin brother and sister. And it doesn’t really matter which one we call the brother, or which we describe as the sister, for one simple reason. Within the…
-
Text and Meaning in Elemental the Power of Illuminated Love (part 2 of 3)
Video cover image for the music and poem video “Angel of Better Days to Come.” One example of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love’s principal themes would be the painting “Christ Listening to Stereo.” It depicts a youth on a bus in New York City.…
-
Report on 2011 International Year part 5: Haiti’s Poetics of Pain and Resilience
At this point, the primary push in the country is to recover not only from the earthquake of 2010, but as U.N. General Secretary Ki-Moon noted, from the cholera epidemic which followed and claimed another 3,300 lives.
-
Dear James Baldwin (in lieu of) Dear Barack Obama
“If I were not writing this letter to you as one of my favorite authors, I would probably be writing it to Barack Obama because there is a great deal about him which tends to remind me of a great deal about you.”–Aberjhani
Bridge of Silver Wings 2025 