High Culture Quest

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 ...

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...

                                                       My first language is English, and  unfortunately I must write in this funny and obnoxious tongue for the benefits of my audience... Up until the past few years or so I have not given that a great deal of thought. Until I realized how subjective of a language it is. What really prompted this was the frustration at the fact I could not speak Italian my ancestral tongue, which I always heard growing up. I understood the basic phrases, many of which were the local dialect of my grand parents. I always was interested in Italian culture and indeed continental European culture as whole, ever since I can remember I would dream about being there whether I was in the Swiss alps or in the sands of Sicily. There many reasons for my recent troubles with the tongue of the Anglosphere many of them are...