Jan Assmann was a gentleman and a man of great genius and insight. Inspired by my mother's love for the subject, Egyptology became a lasting fascination of mine. I discovered only very recently that this great man had passed away. He was an inspiration to me and I'm deeply saddened. I cobbled together here, in celebration of his remarkable insights, this essay touching on the importance of
We can never truly return to any state or condition, since by the very nature of time and experience, any circling back involves deep and significant change. The notions, understandings, and very relationships that formed that original sacredness cannot be reinvigorated.
Mankind has taken an extremely convoluted journey since those days, characterized by an amazing ignorance, and a perverse lust to reduce the symphony of life to a state where the miraculous becomes insipid and banal.
Perhaps its not fair to so generalize. Certainly there are those who deeply perceive the will and communication inherent in life. Yet any cursory examination of the current condition reveals a blatant terror based hatred, typified by the actions of those most privileged in society.
Rather than a return to the sacred, I see the requirement to be a simple lifting of the deep ignorance, the ego based isolationism that exposes itself again and again in every manifestation of this modern world.
The need to return to a sacred view of life.
We can never truly return to any state or condition, since by the very nature of time and experience, any circling back involves deep and significant change. The notions, understandings, and very relationships that formed that original sacredness cannot be reinvigorated.
Mankind has taken an extremely convoluted journey since those days, characterized by an amazing ignorance, and a perverse lust to reduce the symphony of life to a state where the miraculous becomes insipid and banal.
Perhaps its not fair to so generalize. Certainly there are those who deeply perceive the will and communication inherent in life. Yet any cursory examination of the current condition reveals a blatant terror based hatred, typified by the actions of those most privileged in society.
Rather than a return to the sacred, I see the requirement to be a simple lifting of the deep ignorance, the ego based isolationism that exposes itself again and again in every manifestation of this modern world.