This is part 12 in a series exploring the 12 virtues that can free artists from cultural enslavement. ATTEND We have now seen the three facets of the Mystic: Piety, Arete, and Poetry. We have seen how the Mystic is transparent to Nature, both of the outside world and of their own. They know how […]

This is part 11 in a series exploring the 12 virtues that can free artists from cultural enslavement. ATTEND The promise of Poetry is the fulfillment of the artists’ task. the making real of the mysterious dream, and the offering of that object as gift. Poetry poses several challenges, both technical and systemic. Technically we […]

This is part 10 in a series exploring the 12 virtues that can free artists from cultural enslavement. ATTEND Low quality work creates low quality life. Every act of mediocre works sends us farther away from the Mysterious. Low quality work is essentially building the simulacrum with bad alignment, bad transparency, bad Mystery. Quality is […]

This is part nine in an exploration of 12 virtues that can liberate artists from cultural enslavement. ATTEND We’re living in a post-god world. Rationality and scientific reason, Western reason, has developed to such a powerful degree, that the old world of magic and mystery has been obliterated and replaced by scientific method, systems of […]