From the Archives: Part 109 of The Self and its Sources

Bernard’s attempt at stabilization via marriage; joining the throngs of people as competitors and comrades in the daily round of life, into which suddenly crashes death, the death of Percival.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 185

Going back to the tomb. "Death, where is thy sting?"

Creating sacrality out of the most numinous thing around…death. The scandal of the cross.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 98

An example from the New York Times - Pop Music review of Philter..."bottled rage"

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 93

Jesus strips the sacrificial trappings from the stories of state brutality and natural disater leaving his listeners with a choice: death as an accident – without meaning or death as ‘self-sacrifice’ – the giving of one’s entire self, spending one’s life in service to others

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 92

Unless you repent, you will perish ‘just as they did’

Metanoia - repentance

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 64

The parable of the Good Samaritan continued...the aversion to the corpse. The power of the sacrificial system is based on death.