Poetry

Poetry in the Dead Land

Some thoughts on my first ever article.

Collected Essays

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The meaning crisis and language II — Do we need to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor in order to understand ourselves?

The Meaning Crisis and Language

How our inability to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor has left us unable to understand ourselves

Poetry and Redeeming Time

Finding the light at the end of the unending road.

Poetry and Reclaiming Time

Recovering from materialism

Poetry and Understanding Time

Is reality a temporal sequence?

A defence of art as epistemology

Foolish is he who hopes our intellect
Can reach the end of that unending road
Purgatorio, Cant. III

The hard problem of consciousness from the perspective of language

How we use words shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. An old adage that illustrates this is the catalogue of words for snow in the Inuktitut language used by the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic…