Some phrases stay with us because they capture something we’ve spent years trying to understand. Looking again, loving life, walking the walk, amplifying the light: each has marked a different stage of my journey. Now another has emerged. Amor bellum est. Love is war. Perhaps the greatest battles are those that bring us closer to truth, dismantle our illusions, and change everything we thought we knew.
Author: Trance
Artist. Writer. Truth seeker.
The Seduction of the Final Answer: Salvation, Certainty, and the Human Condition
The Myth of the Diminished Human
What happened to humanity, what was taken from us, who or what is responsible, and how might we finally reclaim what was lost? It’s a familiar refrain. The language changes, the cosmologies evolve, and yesterday’s authorities become tomorrow’s false prophets. Yet beneath it all, some remarkably familiar ideas persist. I’ve spent a good deal of time exploring these subjects, and increasingly find myself less interested in another grand explanation than in examining the assumptions that hold these narratives together. Perhaps it’s time we questioned not only the answers being offered, but why we’re so compelled to find them in the first place.
Suppression and Resolution: Rethinking the Nature of Healing
Hering, Homeopathy, and the Art of Observation
We spend a great deal of time trying to understand the body, often through the lens of what we’ve been taught about disease, symptoms, and treatment. But perhaps we’ve been looking at things from the wrong direction. What if many of the things we regard as problems are actually expressions of the body’s ongoing efforts to restore itself? And what if understanding those responses requires a little less intervention and a little more observation? Exploring the work of Lies are Unbekoming and the historical principle attributed to Constantine Hering, we consider the relationship between suppression and healing, the remarkable intelligence of the organism, and the importance of understanding our own individual stories.
Spiritual Warfare: The Captured Creative Force
The Constructs We Create, the Realities We Inhabit
What if the greatest influence over our lives isn’t necessarily what happens to us, but what we’re conditioned to believe, fear, accept, and ultimately contribute to creating? There are forces at work in the human experience that deserve considerably more scrutiny, not least because we may be participating in their perpetuation without ever recognizing it. Perhaps understanding spiritual warfare requires us to look beyond the apparent opposition and examine the very nature of our own creative authority.
Exploded, unfurled New life in the spring Soaked up the sun To light everything Burst into flames Under the grays An unfiltered light For shortening…