Category: philosophical counseling

• June 16, 2012

  Rain song and sun song

  Rain Song When we carried it uphill, the rain hurt our backs. When we let it run downhill, the rain brought us back. When we ran with it seaward, the rain fell on our backs. When we danced with it skyward, the rain sung to us back. When we hummed to it softly, the rain…
• June 15, 2012

  Love, shift, and sustainability

  An 11 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from this past Tuesday morning. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about love, shift, and sustainability. What is most telling about the conversation is how it becomes a performance piece in the art of love. Enjoy. *
• June 14, 2012

  Riverdance

  I was slow about it. First I took off my boots and set them aside. Then my woolen socks whose bands I rolled over once. Then my long, white shirt which caught up my long hair as it came off slowly. Finally my pants which were tied once round my waist with twine. My underwear…
• June 13, 2012

  Unphilosophical and philosophical eternity

  The Phenomenology of Exhaustion 1. Can one describe the lack or loss of eros? Of course. The experience would be felt as burdensome, pain-laden, leaden, tiresome, exhausted, a sense of separateness, of cleaving, of infinite matterlessness. Eros and Temporality 2. The distinction between eros and its lack may come down to that between two differing conceptions…
• June 12, 2012

  The corporeal experience of a good philosophical conversation

  Let us define eros as an experience of nearness and extraordinary aliveness. Then we can begin to describe the experience of eros for an adept in philosophical life. My experience anyway. As a good philosophical conversation unfolds, I sense eros like so (though the ‘feel’ of each event is different, unique, fine-grained): my lungs grow…