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The soul cage of social expectations.

If scholars are per-haps eventually not satisfied with books, do they nevertheless not remain dependent on them?

And if books are for a time the mentor of a seeker, eventually they must in life be surpassed.

In other words: books maybe the sustenance, but should not be the substance, of a scholarly seeker.

While I would now diminish the size of the “Statue of Liberty”, not only a moral cosmology of life and world, but a “philosophy of history” ate present in this cover image – which I conceived, and a Russian helped me render – of my second unread book. My second, bestunseller.

It says much that none of my “friends” have ever spoken of it.

To recognize and extract oneself consciously from shared daily Meaningless time.

Which is more actually essential of Meaning: that in the place where, or in the time when, one lives?

Whether postmortem one faces one’s own daena, or Saint Peter’s queries, certainly most answers will be of the many giving answers of group thoughts, experiences, “sins”,…

At least this one instance of a decades-long Bildungsreise concludes with the recognition that essentially history is happening and faced right here and now.

Watching a “Classical Wisdom” webinar in which a scholar (Philip Freeman) reduces his subject, Julian the Apostate, to a version of his modern self in our time, sitting in his kitchen, as it were.

The very idea to understand and present a different world, seems outside his mind.

How much one has to recognize and unlearn, in fact dereify, in order to free oneself from one’s (inherited) self.

Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world, but most believers have been fairly flexible in interpreting what he meant.