Statement of Purpose: A Reason For Faith & Searching

Original Post: July 23, 2022

Many have turned to Science¹ to resolve issues of Faith².

Yet Science does nothing to assuage existential fears, nor does it pretend to even try to address them; nonetheless many so-called “Rational Thinkers” refer to these exemplar scholars when offering a paradigm on how one should model solutions to questions around Meaning³. It is quite literally referring to individuals expressly unconcerned with The matter of interest as paragons of the concerning matter of interest. Absurdity at its finest.

To seemingly make matters worst: Present-day religious institutions have not adapted to guide modern mystics in facing the more nuanced and sophisticated ethical and spiritual questions precipitated by our collective modern lifestyles.

And now here we find ourselves… wanting, searching, and waiting.

Some of us observing our lives while neglecting to participate in them, and others of us not helping them.

Given a conscious yearning for Life (and consequentially living) in the face of the inevitability of Death⁴, one would think that curiosity around intrinsic meaning would be better addressed by subject areas that actually concern themselves with such matters, like Theosophy and Philosophical Mysticism.

I endeavor in this column to discover (and possibly uncover) useful ideas to assist in interpreting life via reviews and surveys of Art, Science, and Culture. My interests, as it pertains to these areas, primarily reside in works of Modern Abstract Art, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Cosmology, Information Theory, Progressive Rock Music, and experimental Neo-classical Music — A wide range of topics where I find many attempting to bring intuition in harmony with our perceptions of The Physical.

The sensibilities I utilize to discuss Works may not be immediately apparent for a casual reader of my work, but for those of you that are sympathetic with a desire to build in themselves an understanding of the intimate realities we find ourselves inhabiting and experiencing, with-in and with-out, this is for you.

I hope you stick around.

1. Categorically speaking ↩
2. Issues of consciousness and meaning external to The Self. ↩
3. Philosophically speaking ↩
4. Annihilation of The Self ↩