The greatest Irish poet of the past centuries, William Butler Yeats was a complex character, even for Ireland. He was born into the Protestant Aristocratic culture of southern Ireland who are known as the Anglo-Irish. He wrote some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century in English, and was a conservative Irish Nationalist, and a sometime Irish politician. He's quite frankly tied with Gerard Manley Hopkins for my favorite English speaking poets, ever. His prose style has influenced me greatly both in my own writing and my imagination. Like most Anglo-Irish he didn't care for Catholicism that much, which was the majority religion of the rank and file of Irish men and women. Yet he admired and loved the legends and folklore of the Irish people some of which predated Christianity but was never officially condemned by the Church in Ireland to my knowledge, and if you ask a Catholic Irish peasant, I'm sure they would have seen their p...
The ideas that the Star Wars franchise is based on are the Mythological motifs that creator George Lucas learned about from the scholar of Comparative Religions scholar Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell was an interesting figure who is usually affiliated with the psychological thinker Carl Jung. These mythological motifs Campbell believed in are the underpinnings of all the belief systems of humanity, which has a lot to do with the power of the unconscious (dreams and their complete mystery) . I personally always believed these facts are hard and even impossible to deny from what we know about human history ,biology and psychology. As they relate to Star Wars however it involves the idea of The Hero which is found in every Human Mythology and every Religion. As for the setting of Star Wars these fascinating ideas are boiled down in a quasi-religious way into The Force. The Force is the starting point for all philosophical discussions about Star Wars, bot in and out of c...
Here I will post a brief sample to the foreword I am writing for my book I hope to publish with Leonine Publishing. I am calling it "Writings For The Sacred Mind", Samuel Johnson once wrote “ No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” I am a blockhead for sure. My goal is not to write for personal financial gain, or wealth or even just to make ends meat (though the last is a peripheral reason to do so). I write these poems for the Glory of God and to give whoever read these a sense of the sacred, and to give them a longing for truth and beauty. Yes indeed, I write these poems just because I love to write and because it gives me fulfilment as a creative personality type. I’ve always been the kind of creator who does not believe at all in “art for art’s sake” all art must and does have a purpose. Music without purpose is just pretty noise, movies without purpose is just a bland moving picture, and writing without purpose is just scribbles of gibberish. Any ...
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