Mystical Realism

The question of why anything exists is often dismissed as a mystery beyond the reach of reason, relegated to the realms of theology, superstition, or poetic wonder. We are told that the human mind  – a fragile web of artificial concepts thrown over the pure, unbounded expanse of reality – is too limited to grasp the "Why". While this is obviously true, at least in part, if we strip away the fog of human sentiment and the rigid need to fit the cosmos into our pre-constructed t

At the heart of Western culture lies a linguistic, ontological, and philosophical problem that we rarely confront. Today, we speak of the biblical "God" as a single universal force – a supreme consciousness or the absolute source of all life. However, in the original texts, among prophets like Jeremiah, we encounter something entirely different: a specific name, YHWH , and occasionally the plural Elohim , referring to a vast host of beings among whom YHWH is but one of many.

Throughout the ages, mystics and truth seekers have sought isolation and solitude. Deep inside us something still knows: Living in "the world" is living a lie. As a modern day mystical realist, how can this be done without any foundation within a defined religious or spiritual tradition?

Since the dawn of the scientific and materialist era, the predominant worldview has been that the material world – 3D space and time –...

If Modernism was a reaction to the mechanistic image-making of the camera, what will the future of painting be after image-making AI?

"He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak." Oh, well. Here's a far too long riff on language, myth and a world beyond words.