| Still more songs |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|04:13 pm] |
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There are still a few songs to post from Contata. The next two songs, I wrote before Contata but held in reserve so that they would be a surprise:
The theme of the Contata song contest was לחיים (l'chayyim), which means "to life", so I wrote a Jewish song about genetic engineering. You may not know this, but Israel's thriving biotech sector goes way back. This song is about the very first Israeli biotech company — in fact, about the first Israeli biotech hostile takeover. It's a quirky tale of love, betrayal, genetic engineering, cattle rustling, and betrayal that's been handed down in my family for oh, about 3,500 years. I've taken the liberty of setting it to an appropriate-seeming tune, and here it is: "Sheep with Stripes" (mp3). And, by the way, Eyal reminds me that a ketunet passim really is just striped, and that "coat of many colors" is a 16th-century English innovation.
So, my concert at Contata followed the Tom Smith benefit concert, which finished up with Christine Lavin leading us all in a rousing rendition of Tom Paxton's "Peace Will Come", with both Toms listening in by cellphone. Yes, Tom Paxton was (virtually speaking) right there... fortunately or unfortunately, however, neither Tom was on the phone to hear the debut of "Stars on Our Heads", a filk of a similarly inspiring song that Tom Paxton co-wrote with Mark Elliott. I think both Toms would have been amused.
Now, it seems that every time there's a filk convention in New Jersey, someone has to sing "The Rolling Mills of New Jersey", which is a sort of ode to the mess that we've made of the place, as if that were New Jersey's fault. It's funny, sure, but some of my best friends are environmentalists who also happen to be proud to be from New Jersey, and they're kinda sick of it. So, in the wee hours of Sunday morning when I should have been asleep, I wrote an antidote: "The Living Earth of New Jersey". It's not all serious, though — the best antidote to a bad joke is a good one. See if you can catch the references. |
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| AI Psycho Guilt for Two |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|02:16 pm] |
Another pair of songs that could go with some narrative by way of explanation, although not original this time. Spoilers follow for 2001, Portal, and the general premise of Half-life and Half-life 2.
So, HAL and GLaDOS... have a lot in common. They're artificial intelligences assigned to scientific projects who ultimately demonstrate their commitment to scientific progress by killing (or trying to kill) the rest of the research team. They both have to be dismantled one personality module at a time by Our Plucky Protagonist. And they both sing catchy swan-songs that get stuck in your head (a point to which we'll return in a moment). It would seem natural to throw them together in some kind of crossover fanfic, and, indeed, it's been done.
That's a cute way to cross the characters, but it doesn't really do it for me — HAL and GLaDOS each come with a narrative context, a place, time, and science-fictional world. If we're going to write a crossover, let's really write a crossover. Luckily, this is almost trivial — while I've made some further adjustments, the basic idea is to just take the 2001 (probably excluding sequels) and Half-life (which includes Portal) continuities and concatenate them. This makes sense of the similarities between HAL and GLaDOS, ties together the topics of their respective research projects, and allows us to make an awful pun. Within this crossover context, I've filked both of their songs.
For those who just want to see the songs, here they are (lyrics only, for now): "Freaking Out" and "AI Psycho Guilt for Two". Further details of my crossover story ( follow the cut ) |
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| Walk in the Day |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|08:17 am] |
I seem to do a lot of my songwriting at and in the wake of conventions — I guess the creative juices get recharged, or something. Anyway, I have a lot of new songs to post, and in addition one song that was held in reserve so I could spring it out at Contata (which went over very nicely). Contrary to my earlier announcement, I will be posting them here, because proper handling of audio content on my new site requires a server upgrade that my hosts say will happen later this summer.
I'll be posting these in several batches because a number of them go together in groups that require some narrative framing. In this batch are two songs based on a short story, "Walk in the Day", which I'm hoping to get someone to write for me. You can listen to the songs, "Shade" (mp3) and "Walk in the Day" (mp3), first, or you can read the ( synopsis ) |
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| Lots of songs! |
[May. 13th, 2008|02:33 pm] |
Over the last week or so, I have had a musical flood — I've written a number of new songs, extensively revised a few old songs, and recorded yet more songs to which I posted lyrics long ago. I've also posted a number of songs that aren't new-to-me, but which hadn't been posted previously.
The complete list of updates is on my songs page, without commentary. Note that this will probably be the last major update to that page, and also the last batch of songs to be announced on this journal, because this summer I will be moving my web presence to a new site and a new format, about which I will post at length after it happens. I will continue to use this LJ account for the purposes of reading and commenting on other people's journals.
[η: links fixed]
"Love Letter" (mp3) has gotten a major revision, with the third verse and its chorus ripped out and replaced with two new verses and choruses. This song was always intended, not just as one of those quirky songs in which Ben explains his world-view, but as a love song to the Holy One, as something you could earnestly pray. The original version started in a devotional mood, but then made a very abrupt transition to critical-thinking-land. This revision makes the transition much smoother, and the point-of-view character less canny, which helps to carry that devotional energy into the second half of the song. Of all the changes, the key may be "Please don't say you expect me to take this or leave it / 'cause I love you too much to say no." I don't think it's a coincidence that "Love Letter" didn't get properly finished until between Pesach and Shavuot.
( click for even more songs ) |
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| Ars Magica Liberalis |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|01:39 pm] |
I have an idea for an RPG setting, which is clear enough in my mind and based on material which is well-enough known that I might actually think of producing a sourcebook for it, especially if I get some help.
The short version is this: what if academics was magic?
The roots of this idea go back a long way. As philosopher Ken Wilber and my friends in the Sisterhood of the Owl reminded me last spring, Western civilization once had a Wisdom tradition of its own, comparable to those of the East — a tradition of contemplative, mystical insight, passed from teacher to student.
The same ancients had a clear notion of a good education, and when the traditions of scholarship in the West were restored — in the form of a clerical (if firmly exoteric) order of which most of you are members! — so was that notion. And, as the aptly-named ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) quadrivium points out, the ancients believed that such knowledge was power in a sense that we might well call magical. Similar connections obtain between my chosen field of study and that other ancient tradition (clerical, scholarly, and mystical) in which I have a portion.
Concretely, this is the same old geek trope about an RPG of college life, with character classes for majors, and so forth, only writ large and taken seriously. I have a handful of particular ideas. (A few of these are based loosely on unpublished proprietary content and will have to be vetted and redacted before they can be publicly discussed.) The basic concept could be embedded in any of a number of RPG systems, Ars Magica being the most obvious, if only because of the appropriateness of the name. Mage: The Awakening, which I've seen described as "Ars Magica modern", could also work, with some modifications.
So, first, has this been done? I don't count Ars Magica itself because, as far as I know, it's a setting in which the Western esoteric tradition is real magic, whereas I'm talking about a setting where exoteric knowledge is real magic. And, second, anyone want to help me brainstorm this? I'm particularly hoping to hear from quadrivium, mnemex, and gaudior and friends, but anyone who wants to is welcome to contribute. |
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| Goodbye friends page, hello friends! |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|11:15 am] |
In all likelihood I will never look at http://orawnzva.livejournal.com/friends again.
DON'T PANIC, it's not because I don't love you! It's because I've lately discovered that my RSS reader, Vienna, being browser-based, authenticates to livejournal.com using a magic cookie just like any other web-browser, and thus I can pull down all the LJ that's fit for me to read as RSS. This completely obsoletes my previous system for keeping track of which LJ posts I have and have not read.
As part of the migration process, I have made some minor adjustments to the set of journals I read and to my friends list (note that there is now no essential link between these two sets). I make very few locked entries, and the main consideration when adjusting which information pipes I'm subscribed to is my time and sanity, so, as far as I'm concerned, these adjustments are of relatively small social weight. However, if it is for whatever reason important to you whether or not (a) I keep track of what's going on with you or (b) you have access to my occasional more personal musings, I will gladly take that into consideration.
note: I've been using a DefaultView custom friends group to filter my friends page, and I will, at least for the time being, continue to keep it synchronized with the set of livejournals I am actually reading, so you can check whether or not I am reading your journal by looking for your own entries on my friends page. |
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| Userpic ideas |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|04:56 pm] |
Meanwhile, despite the latest stupidity, I'll definitely be keeping my LJ account around for reading and commenting purposes... and I've been thinking that I could use a few more userpics — three more, to be precise, since that's what I get.
I currently have three userpics, which I associate (roughly) with wonder, compassion/intimacy, and snark/outrage respectively. I'm looking for three more. I'm not sure how often I will be posting (I don't post that often now), so these will be mainly be used for commenting, suggesting that they should convey attitudes/emotions rather than topics. (The one topic I'm likely to continue to post on is music.) Basically, I'm hoping for comments from people who know me well enough to identify conversational moods of mine which are not well-covered by my current set of userpics.
At some point in the not-too-distant future I will be moving and completely redesigning my personal website, at which point even the stuff I have been posting to LJ (i.e. songs and commentary on songs) will be best-viewed over there. |
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| LJ drops Basic accounts, bother! |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|04:32 pm] |
Apparently, LJ will no longer allow the creation of Basic (free, ad-free) accounts. Existing accounts can (for now) still be switched to and from Basic status. The latest news posting (which might, theoretically, have prominently mentioned this) says nothing about this change.
As has been ranted about at greater length elsewhere, this is a violation of (legally non-binding, but quite explicit) promises LJ has made in the past regarding the character of its service and its relationship with users. Brad, original founder of LJ and now Not In Charge, but on an advisory board which is apparently going to be ignored by the new Powers That Be, agrees that this was a breach of trust and a bad move.
I'm not sure what I'm planning to do about this. My account will remain Basic unless and until there's another change in policy (I wouldn't trust an assertion that this won't happen if I were given one), but I can certainly no longer recommend in good conscience that anyone join LJ in order to keep up with me. On the other hand, I don't post here all that often. People can follow my journal, such as it is, using RSS, and comment anonymously or using an OpenID, and I have few locked posts.
At the same time, I will say this: Why have so many of us put ourselves in this position where the data that make up our personal and social lives is held by a company that we don't control and with whom we don't even have a real contract? For each other. I could drop LJ in a moment — log out and never log back in — if everyone on LJ whom I care about would follow me. They only have a hold on me because they have a hold on you, and so on, circularly. We are hostages. We came because it was a good deal, but we will stay even if it becomes a bad deal, at least for a while.
Where could we go? Another social networking site? There are others that have better reputations (InsaneJournal seems to be an especially popular destination for LJ refugees)... or, we could hope for some software and protocols that would allow us to achieve the same functions we get from LJ while hosting our content on whatever machines we choose. |
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| That meme that's going around |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|04:07 pm] |
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and I’ll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on tv, favorite type of underwear, stories I'm working on, travel, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.
Comments are screened. |
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| A new song about Love, G♥d, Relationships, and the Law of Contracts |
[Feb. 28th, 2008|06:42 pm] |
I've been filking my way through the Jewish calendar for a while now, and am pleased to announce that I am finally (according to some interpretations) done! There are two groups of Jewish holidays which could each be viewed as a single extended holiday, and I've now got one song for each group (and for the other major holidays) but not for each individual holiday within each group. (See below for the complete list.)
The song which completes the sequence is "Love Letter" (MP3), which picks up the biblical narrative at Pesach but is really about Shavuot. On Shavuot, we celebrate the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. The Jewish interpretive tradition likens G!d and Israel to lovers, the revelation at Sinai to a wedding, and the Torah to a marriage contract, and reads the Song of Songs as an allegory of this story (which it is, and...). It's touching, it's meaningful... but let's ( look at the particulars... )
Incidentally, yes, the tune is very similar to "Circle Story" (MP3), which is a coincidence but not an accident — compare the section of "Circle Story" covering the corresponding part of the calendar and you'll see why.
( the list of Jewish holiday songs ) |
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| You make my day |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|05:26 pm] |
from thnidu:
Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award.
If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.
Perhaps you've been picked because I actually look forward to reading your journal entries.
Maybe I know you in real life and I have deep affection for you.
You could have cheered me up when I was sad or it could be something as simple as giving me a hug whenever you see me.
Or it could be that you have trusted me with a deep dark secret.
The following people on my friends list have my award for one of the above stated reasons:
Now, if you feel so inclined, pass it on! |
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| Lots of Jewish songs |
[Nov. 20th, 2007|05:00 pm] |
Four Jewish songs — one is new, one was written back August but was kept under wraps until now for seasonal reasons, one was posted before but now has an MP3 up, and one has been in the MP3 directory on my website for some time and I simply neglected to mention it.
"My People's Story" (MP3) was inspired in large part by this post, and by a top-secret plan I'm working on which will be revealed in due time. It's about the journey of the Jewish people through history and layers (upon layers upon layers) of sacred text, up to and including these very songs, and beyond.
"Dedication" (MP3) is the Chanukah song I've been meaning to write — I actually wrote it at the NHC summer institute, but I've been saving it until this season. I've been writing my way around the Jewish year with songs that approach the story of each holiday in a certain way, but certain holidays had been eluding me, and, at about midnight on the last night of the institute, I ( finally figured out why. )
I've finally posted an MP3 of "Cracked", which was posted and discussed here. (Also, "The Ballad of Surf and Turf", also posted there, is finally linked from my main songs page.)
"Modim" is a musical setting of the thanksgiving prayer from the daily liturgy. This blessing has an awful lot of big words with many syllables. In order to make it all fit, I had to rearrange it a little, but this is basically the whole thing. |
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| Very unkosher deep-fried Chanukah party 12/8 |
[Nov. 18th, 2007|02:25 pm] |
Dear friends,
The month of Kislev is upon us, and that means that Chanukah is coming, and with it, in commemoration of the miracle of the oil, my annual excursion into the art of deep-frying. Last year, there was far too much food for two people to eat, and there easily could have been even more, so this year, you are invited to my first-ever...
Very Unkosher Deep-Fried Chanukah Party
When: Saturday December 8th, after Shabbat (including havdalah) (i.e. around 5:30)
Where: My apartment in Waltham, very near Brandeis
What: Festivities will begin with havdalah, the simple ritual marking the end of the Jewish Sabbath. Then, the wok will be heated up. Songs of the season will be sung, and games will be played, but, really, it's all about
the...
Food: Some selection of the following items will be immersed in 375-degree organic soybean oil for your eating pleasure:
* pappadums
* potato, winter squash, carrot, and beet chips, fries, and/or tempura
* tofu
* vegetarian wontons of various flavors
* fish tempura
* local, seasonally available, sustainably harvested cold-water shrimp
In the main round of deep-frying, the vegetarian items will be prepared first, and the shrimp last, for those who will eat food prepared in a non-kosher kitchen, but not food that has been fried in the very same oil as shrimp (which seems like a reasonable position to me). Almost all items will be wholly or partially local, organic, and/or fair trade, but (as with kashrut) no guarantee of overall purity with respect to any of these standards can be made for any particular item.
Some non-deep-fried items, in particular salad and gazpacho, will also be available.
For those concerned about the healthiness of deep-fried food, you should be aware that properly deep-fried food (which I hope mine is) absorbs very little oil while it is cooking, and is in fact much less oily than pan-fried food (like latkes).
If you would like to come, RSVP. If you are interested in bringing a
potluck item, including items-to-be-deep-fried, feel free to do so and
please let me know what you are thinking of bringing.
[ edit: Further updates will be sent out by email, so please include an email address if you RSVP here. Comments are now screened. ] |
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| Shareware for the birthday... |
[Nov. 18th, 2007|06:36 am] |
Happy birthday to ladymondegreen and shipwright and metaplasmus...
Oh, and to me. For the next 10.5 months, fiddledragon and I are both prime. It's been a wonderful, if sometimes frantic, year, and a wonderful, if sometimes frantic, week. I have a number of very shiny projects in the pipeline that I'm really excited about (which is why I'm still awake right now).
My family has been really awesome in the gift department this year. My parents got me a shiny, adorable digital camera and have also ordered me (although I think technically that's for Chanukah) a shiny, adorable laptop. And, continuing the nerdity, what I've been getting myself has mostly been shareware games — or rather, a few weeks ago I was bored and downloaded a lot of indy shareware games, and this week I reminded myself that it's my birthday and if I like a game I should register it.
A couple of the games I really like are multiplayer games. Since these are indy shareware games, there aren't always random people online to play with, so in the interests of fun I'd like to encourage others to try them. In addition, one of the games features a quite significant volume discount for group orders. Here they are:
Once Upon a Time (no relation to the card game) is a fairy-tale themed four-player capture the flag princess game. Although realized in a real-time 3D adventure/combat idiom, its well-defined, compact, and balanced scenario plays like a board game. A typical match lasts 2-5 minutes. When you can't find four humans, decent AI players will automatically fill in. This game is available for Mac and PC. The free demo features unrestricted play on one map (the full game has four, plus a story/tournament mode), and the full game costs $15. I've already registered this game, and since the demo offers nearly unrestricted play, you may as well check it out.
Galcon is a fast-paced, real-time Risk-like game of conquering the galaxy — not the in-depth sort with tech development and economics, the quickie sort with fleets of ships zooming across the galaxy in a tide of conquest that's over in 5 minutes. From the disabled menu items taunting me with their shiny thumbnail screenshots, it looks like there are a lot of modes and fairly open-ended mod potential. This game is available for Mac, Linux, and PC. The demo allows play in the most basic mode, with multi-player access expiring after three days (which is a little bit annoying). Most interestingly, a quite significant volume discount is available on group orders of the full game, which is a primary reason for my making this post: the first copy is $20, the next two are $15 each, and any beyond that are just $10. Thus, the more of you buy this game, (a) the more people I can play with, and (b) the less we all pay — win-win! So, who's in? |
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| Lots of songs |
[Oct. 29th, 2007|08:56 pm] |
I'm back from OVFF, where I had an awesome time about which maybe more later. I have no "new" songs (begun and finished at-con), but I finished a lot of almost-written material. Lyrics now, MP3s later this week when I have more throat and sleep added and linked in my next entry.
"Castle in the Sky" is based on the Miyazaki film of the same name, set to the haunting main title theme by Joe Hisaishi.
"Many Pikmin" is based on the adorable GameCube game Pikmin, in which you play a stranded astronaut who must repair his crashed ship with the help of hordes of cute animate radish-like organisms. A principal theme of the game is that pikmin must work in large teams to accomplish anything, so when I decided to write a song for the game, Leslie Fish's "Toast for Unsung Heroes" (which uses the union anthem "Step by Step" as its chorus) immediately came to mind. However, the cheerful, playful cuteness of Pikmin demanded a major key, so I put it in a major key... and it worked.
"Red Wings" is another video game song, covering (and using the music from) the opening sequence of Final Fantasy IV. This really wants to be recorded with a male chorus (hey, scifantasy, metaplasmus, I'm looking at you) and a lot of tympani.
"Starseed (Dust on the Wind)" was written and declared complete at Conterpoint. Although it wasn't my intention, and I wasn't working from it, it ended up going to the tune of the A-part of "Tanglewood Tree" by Dave Carter. Last night, after hearing an awesome rendition of TT performed by cadhla, tfabris and friends, I decided to try reworking "Starseed" so that it was actually a filk of "Tanglewood Tree", instead of just happening to have the same melody. This is the result — in my opinion, it's a vast improvement, and this is now the canonical version of "Starseed". edit: Added Tracy's duet part to the last verse.
"Snow Crashin'" is a wassailing song about Snow Crash. It was begun at OMGWTF:15am a few Philcons ago, and I don't properly remember whether it was ccommack's fault or mine. (It may also be partially ladymondegreen's and batyatoon's fault.)
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| When horses fly... |
[Aug. 29th, 2007|10:21 pm] |
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I've been nominated for my second Pegasus Award, in the category of Best Writer/Composer. W00t! The competition is really top notch, and I'm honored to be counted among my fellow nominees. So, if you consider yourself part of the filk community, vote, and may the best songwriter win! |
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| Not making that mistake again... |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|09:47 pm] |
Two years ago, I was delayed coming home from Confluence by serious weather, and I didn't buy the Harry Potter book. I spent five hours in the airport terminal being kind of bored.
This weekend, I was again delayed coming home from Confluence by serious weather. I bought the book, read it, and enjoyed it — and I didn't get bored waiting around the airport. Right choice. I won't comment on the book here (and don't you, either!).
Confluence was great. The featured filkers were Meg Davis and Kristoph Klover, who are amazing performers. I helped out with batyatoon's concert, and got to do a lot of hanging out with people I've missed and have lots of interesting conversations. I also finished ( two songs ) |
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| Self-replicating songs |
[Jul. 1st, 2007|06:32 pm] |
I wrote three songs at or in the penumbra of Conterpoint. Strangely enough, all of them are about self-replication. Two are featured here — the third is, while complete, not ready (or rather, I am not ready to present it).
"Starseed" (mp3) is set in my original Explorators universe, whence also "The Explorators' Hymn for the Makers", "The Great Explorer Zero", and (probably) "Wondering Starship". The Explorators are sentient, self-replicating machines sent into space ages ago by an extinct civilization on a mission of exploration — or, rather, they were. Like anything trying to self-replicate in a hostile environment, they've evolved. This song traces the complete life-cycle of a nanotechnologically-enhanced version of a kind of sessile Explorator known as a stargazer installation. A close reading of the lyrics will reveal many of the specific technologies I imagine to be involved.
"Blue Butterfly" (mp3) is based on an entirely true story, which I learned from David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth. File this under "truth is stranger than fiction". The alcon blue butterfly lays its eggs on the gentian plant. The caterpillar feeds on the gentian for a little while but, well before it is grown, drops off and lies helpless on the ground. At this point, it will likely be picked up by ants and carried back to their nest, because it smells exactly like one of the ants' own larvae. It will be fed and cared for by the ants as if it were one of their own, pupate in the ant nest, and emerge as an adult butterfly right out of the ant colony... unless, of course, it is found by a parasitic wasp. The wasp, unlike the ants, can identify the butterfly caterpillar, and can also release a pheromone which scrambles the ants' friend-or-foe detectors, causing them to attack one another. While the ants are in disarray, the wasp finds the nursury and lays an egg on the caterpillar. The caterpillar makes a perfectly normal chrysalis, but what comes out of it is a wasp! There's something almost like a Child ballad (Caterpillar ballad?) about the whole treacherous mess. |
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| Σοφιας Φιλαι/חברי חוכמה |
[May. 9th, 2007|02:58 pm] |
Lately, I've been reading Sex, Ecology, Spirtuality, a massive tome about everything by philosopher Ken Wilber. What I've been reading integrates really well with what I already believe, and it's been clarifying some things about my sense of purpose in life and relationship to the sacred. I've also just attended a major festival of an endearing cult whose liturgy points back to the earliest stirrings of the wisdom tradition in the West. Together, these factors have conspired to produce a wonderful sense of knowing who I am, why I'm here, what I'm supposed to be doing, and with whom I'm supposed to be doing it.
All real wisdom is holy wisdom — there is no sacred topic or group of topics that is distinguished above the others as more worthy of study. This is because every aha! is aha! — the brilliant moment of realizing the Oneness and Goodness of All Things and the brilliant moment of realizing, not only that dxn/dx = nxn-1, but why this is so (or equivalently for any other aspect of any other academic subject) are not two. The love of learning is its own reward and the key to most other rewards (nice package, that). Throughout history, there have been many institutions which have nurtured this love. Some were, and are, cultic in character. Some are more purely exoteric. One might think that, while the exoteric academy can teach the lower wisdom, the higher wisdom is reserved for the esoteric societies. But, then, whence the academy?
That's right — I, too, am a member of an ancient lineage with flowing black robes and funny hats and degrees of initiation and everything! True, I've only actually worn the robe and the funny hat for a little while. Nevertheless, I am a bachelor of arts, and someday I hope to be a PhD — a teacher of the love of wisdom (how much more explicit could that be?). Even now, I'm a teaching assistant, and, as mundane as TAing looks, that means that I'm helping to initiate the next generation into the love of learning. Regardless of the subject (in this case, computer science), when I bring my whole self to that endeavor, as I strive to do, it becomes holy work. And that, my fellow friends of wisdom, is the work that I am here to do.
I suppose this means I should get back to writing that term paper, doesn't it? |
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