February 21st, 2010
Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind? – Part 1
The mind is entangled in a futile pursuit to logically rearrange reality into something it can observe, control, and catalogue.
Poetry frees the mind of its entanglements, because it emanates from the heart, and I am not being literal in the sense of the physical heart, but in the sense as how the word is generally [...]
How the Ancient Egyptians understood the role of the pharaoh
The Egyptian pharaoh was seen as nothing less than the sole intermediary between the gods and his people. With one foot in the human sphere, and one in the divine, he moved in both circles, yet was fully a part of neither. Like an ordinary man, he was born, he lived, and he [...]
