Part 1: Owen Barfield was one of the Inklings, a group of Oxford academics who got together in order to write the stories which they thought the world was missing. The most famous were C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Barfield wrote a book, “Poetic Diction,” which inspired Tolkien. The…

Most of my life it’s like I’m looking at the ugly underside of all that exists. When I have a little drink, it lifts me above it all, and I can see it shining and beautiful. It is like being above or under the ocean. When you’re above it, the…

The ultimate anti-Catholic Steelman: We don’t need to understand how it works in order to be “possessed” by a meme. A meme is more than thoughts. It’s the interaction between thoughts, behaviors, and experiences.¹ There is a radix of Christianity which originated in the person of Jesus Christ and spread…

Once I dreamed about a beautiful woman, “Selah.” Very emotionally unstable. I held her even though she tried to pull away, I held her and loved her. But it was a spiritual, not a carnal love. An incredibly powerful love for this small frail beautiful thing. Later in adoration I…

If I knew what was good for me in any sense I’d go to the desert. But as long as I’m still here, there’s nothing to guarantee that I will ever become conscious of even the most obvious connections between my blind desires and what is salutary. One is tempted…