If I may impose upon the flow of events….the section of these essays formerly known as the ever popular dream sequence is to be discontinued. In its place will be the section known as attempts to sacralize the mundane. We thankyou and apologize for any inconvience it may cost you.
At times I refer to the knowledge of the sacred. This is a more a wider use of the idea of religion, but they are essentially the same thing. JRR Tolkien was famously unimpressed by the future, by technology and by the miracles of modern science – that for him was just not what life was about.
He felt as well what I’ve at terms labeled the post Darwinian ethos. This says that the world we live in was not built by God, but rather by people who believed in God. Given the universal existence of some sort of religion over the entire globe this is difficult to refute.
It should help you a great deal to understand what this web site is about if you can take this idea of Tolkiens and, rather then cherish the past, project it into the future. Call it a cult, a clan, a family or a people the world is made a better place by people who know who they are.
Because if you don’t know who you are then there are those who will tell you – and they will lie.
Tolkien was not that far removed from Will Blake in this sense. We see the machinery the factories and the endless measuring of one person to another and lose sight of what life is about. From there the leap to genocide and mass extinction is but a heartbeat away – as we saw demonstrated in the last century.
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