Today, a new essay, "Nightmares," under Essays on the web site.
A note: this one is particularly dark, as the title infers. It is about the existence of evil and the terror of doubt. It came to me in that off hour between night and day, and I put it just as it was: a horror and a dilemma of doubt. This is not the way I normally think, however, nor how most of us think, but I hold that most of us do think this way sometimes, and as such it must be looked at and pondered. It is a version of the "dark night of the soul," which is considered crucial for the final stages of mystical union. Doubt and fear must eventually be met, and from there, if one is fortunate, one is able to see beyond it all to union. "Nuff said. FK
A note: this one is particularly dark, as the title infers. It is about the existence of evil and the terror of doubt. It came to me in that off hour between night and day, and I put it just as it was: a horror and a dilemma of doubt. This is not the way I normally think, however, nor how most of us think, but I hold that most of us do think this way sometimes, and as such it must be looked at and pondered. It is a version of the "dark night of the soul," which is considered crucial for the final stages of mystical union. Doubt and fear must eventually be met, and from there, if one is fortunate, one is able to see beyond it all to union. "Nuff said. FK
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