Genes tell the mythology of the contemporary age. Cal Eugenides traces his personal mythology through an unlikely series of events that conspire to create the perfect circumstances to produce Cal exactly as he/she is. This tale is spun like most other myths, with fibers of truth and patterns of exaggeration, but it reflects a very […]
Hey everybody, I highly encourage y’all to check out this website: http://www.artandmedicine.com/ that my friend Aviva’s dad, Mark Rowley, is associated with. Aviva tells me he’s been fascinated by medical “oddities” all his life. Specifically, I recommend reading some of John Wood’s poems. The very first one listed, “Elephantiasis,” is stunningly beautiful. –Sophia
For as long as the two have existed, the worlds of science and religion have been at war. It is not because of mutual hatred or a desire to dominate human consciousness (although I’m sure this plays some part in certain battles). Rather, it is that the two lines of thought are constantly contradicting each […]
Sam Barnes The opening verse of the Tao Te Ching, rendered here through translation and thousands of years after-the-fact, announces that “the way that can be spoken is not the perennial Way.” Real encounter with life, whether it be in its social, spiritual, or societal aspect, lies just beneath our tongues. And yet the power […]
