Many have turned to Science to resolve issues of Faith.

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 Meaning. 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 Death, 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.

Here I create, write, and make within those disciplines.

Each work aims to pair writing with original visual art, and most carry audio narration; word, image, and voice set to a single question.

The subjects I engage: Scripture and the Christian contemplative tradition; the philosophy and psychology of consciousness, will, and attention; cosmology and information; and the arts of painting, music, and story, wherever they labor to bring intuition into harmony with our perceptions of The Physical.

This column began in 2022 as a skeptic’s survey of works; the skeptic’s discipline remains in the method. The original Statement of Purpose remains for the record.

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.

@ CyberArtTime