The Room of No Exit

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Spirit Talk
• Foreword
• I. The Way The World Has Become
  • MAMMON [1]= “You Cannot Serve Two Masters”
  • MAMMON [2]= “The False ‘god’ Of This World”
  • MAMMON [3]= The Bourgeois Mentality
  • MAMMON [4]= Can ‘Organizations’ Be Evil?
  • The Alien Power of This World
  • The Oldest Cave Art
  • The Wisdom of The Creatures
  • Religion Stinks
  • The Wild
• II. Eros and the Daemonic
  • OVERVIEW= After The Fall
  • EROS AND THE DAEMONIC= Static and Dynamic
  • STATIC QUALITY= The ‘Cosmic Wheel’
  • DRAMA= The Instigator of Dynamic Quality
  • Two Friends in Arles
  • THE ORDINARY LIVING OF EROS= ‘Nothing Special’
  • The Sacred Circle
  • ANCIENT VIEWS OF NATURE= Bushido
  • Experiences of Eros
  • The Philosopher’s Eros
  • The Scientist’s Eros
  • The Mystic’s Eros
  • The Psychologist’s Eros
  • The Intelligence of Love
  • Notes on Soul as Feeling
  • A Discussion on Eros
  • Martin Buber on Eros
  • Drowning in The Sea Of Love
  • The Daemonic as ‘Duende’
  • The Daemonic Wound
  • The Daemonic Test
  • The Daemonic Fire
  • TIME= The Vehicle of the Daemonic in Human Existence
  • Daemonic in Ancient Greek
  • Heads and Tails of The Daemonic
  • Warrior Honour
  • HEKATE= The Dark Queen
  • The Zombies are Among Us
  • Conclusion
• III. The Existential
  • Introductory Notes on Greek and Jew
  • TWO HORNS OF A DILEMMA= And The Neglected Third Way
  • Different Voices of Angst
  • Time is Existential
  • The Human World
  • Existential Action
  • The Gamble of Existence
  • Words of The Abyss
  • The Abyss
  • Existential Heroism
  • Ontological Void and Existential Abyss
  • This is The Heart
  • Faith vs. Despair
  • Resignation or Faith?
  • Which Suffering Do We Choose?
  • Why Is Passion Existentially Basic?
  • Innocence and Experience in Passion
  • Authenticity in Existence
  • Modern People’s Attempt to Articulate Passion
  • Escape to Theory
  • A Useful Distinction in Kierkegaard
  • Closing the Eyes
  • Pathologies of Passion
  • The Sobriety of True Passion
  • Abstractionism
  • Existential Realism
  • God Is Not An Idea
  • The Black Night
  • The Burning of Passion
• IV. The Jewish Struggle With The Daemonic
  • Greek Space and Jewish Time
  • What God Put On The Jews
  • THE HEBREW WORD FOR PASSION= ‘Cleave’
  • Why Did Job Repent?
  • God is A Gambler
  • CONTENDING WITH GOD= The Story Of Jacob
  • Hesed
  • YAHWEH as the Personal Name of God
  • THE LEFT HAND OF YAHWEH= Does Hebrew Have A Term Equivalent to the Greek ‘Daemonic’?
  • PAGANISM= The Great Mother and Her Son-Lover Ba’al
  • The Messianic Calling of Jewish Religion
  • Healing and Redemption
  • Hasidism as Messianic
  • The Day Of Atonement in Ancient Judaism
  • OLAM= the Jewish Emphasis on Time
  • The ‘Throne—Chariot’ of God in Jewish Tradition
  • The Messiah in Jewish Tradition
  • The Spirit in The Depths
• V. The Messianic
  • Do You Want The Way of Heart?
  • The Koan of Existence
  • What We Find
  • The Revelation [Apocalypse] of John
  • The Messianic Koan
  • Offence Or Faith
  • What Do You Mean?
  • AFFECTEDNESS= The Centrality of ‘Heart’ in Human Existence
  • ‘NIKE’= The Victory of the ‘Passible’ Heart
  • FURTHER NOTES ON GREEK AND JEW= Time vs Space
  • UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS= The Metaphysical Philosophy of Greek Hellenism
  • THE PASSIONATE SPIRIT OF GOD= The Ruach
  • Kierkegaard Quotes
  • HEIGHT AND DEPTH= Knowledge versus Wisdom
  • The Paradox of The Daemonic
  • Jeremiah’s Disappointment
  • “A Man Will Come Whose Heart Is Deep”
  • The Fire of Truth Among the Old Celts
  • What Is The Sword?
  • The Fire of Truth in Many Places
  • Warrior Staked To The Ground
  • The Warrior’s Secret
  • Japanese Samurai Teachings
  • Warrior Way and The Greek ‘Thymos’
  • The Warrior as A Third Way
  • Flamenco in 2009
  • DIONYSUS, ‘The Twice Born’
  • The True Heroism
  • What Manner of Human Being Is A Prophet?
  • When Will Truth Be Lived And Done, Rather Than Just Espoused?
  • Go With The Garbage
  • What Is Sin?
  • Mother Maria Skobtsova
  • Notes On Dostoyevsky
  • The Daemonic God Is Not A Rescuer
  • What Does The Heart Want?
  • EROS AND THE DAEMONIC= A Brief Snap-Shot
  • Eros In Taoism
  • Eros In ‘The Song Of Songs’
  • Rumi on Eros
  • Eros is Light And Water
  • Eros and The Daemonic As Partners?
  • Cleansing The Pools
  • More On Eros As Static Quality
  • EROS AND THE DAEMONIC IN JEWISH TRADITION= Deuteronomy and the Book of Job
  • The Two Vows God Makes
  • SAVING AND REDEEMING= An Overview of the Contrast
  • Karin’s Reply
  • Emptying The Will
  • Christ’s Cross
  • The Cross is In The World
  • Covenant Versus Contract
  • The ‘Sin’ of Moses
  • The Buck Stops Here
  • DIFFERENT KINDS OF ATONING IN ANCIENT JUDAISM= Priest, Prophet, King
  • Atonement as The Reversal
  • Christ, Redeemer and King
  • Why The ‘Passion’ Of Christ?
  • THE KOAN OF THE CROSS= He Joined Us In Our Desolation
  • Heart And World
  • Fighting Fire With Fire
  • Only Passion Brings Us To Holiness
  • Change In The Depths
  • The Third Way Of This World
  • An Old Letter From a Friend
  • The Place of Despair Embraced by The Cross
  • The Cross As Victory
  • The Messiah’s Descent Into Hell
  • Passing Through Hell
  • What Resurrection Means
  • The Message of The Resurrection
  • The Heroism of The Cross
  • Redemption Is Not ‘Individual’
  • Everyone Has Their Own ‘Share’ Of Suffering
  • Pseudo Destiny
  • The Satanic Accuser Against, and The Messianic Advocate For, The Human Heart
  • THE THREE FACES OF EVIL= Lucifer, Satan, Mephistophles
  • The Three Hells
  • The Satanic Freud
  • The Luciferian, Matriarchal Jung
  • The Human Tragedy
  • Hell As The ‘Existential Condition’ of The Human Heart
  • Peter The Upside Down Man
  • Letter From a Friend On What Is Truly ‘Petrine’
  • Rollo May Critiques Carl Rogers For Being Naïve About Evil
  • PROLOGOMENA TO AN UNRESOLVED PROBLEM= Balancing ‘Good and Evil’ with ‘Sickness and Health’
  • CONSIDER THIS— Why Does St Paul ‘Glory’ in Existential Infirmities?
  • What Van Gogh Painted
  • The ‘Abysmal’ Is Key to Passion’s Spirtual Destiny
  • The Abyss At The ‘Base’ of The Human Heart
  • SALVATION AND REDEMPTION= An Overview of the Difference, Based on Linguistic and Scriptural Sources
  • Ambivalence
  • The Temptation of Monasticism Is To Betray ‘The Ethical’
  • What The Desert Tradition Had That Later Monasticism Lost
  • Prophet As Serving The King
  • The Christian Mystery
  • Divinization
  • How Deep Is Your Love?
  • The Secret Wisdom of God
  • THE SECOND CHANCE= Pointing To The Future
• VI. The Eschatological Future
  • ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD
  • Notes In The Life
  • APOPHATIC AND CATAPHATIC= The Error of the Philosopher’s Intellectualist Mysticism
  • The Mystery of The Concrete and Particular ‘Existent’
  • DOSTOYEVSKY= The New Spirit of Humanity Emerging From The ‘Crisis of Modernity’
  • Berdyaev on Dostoyevsky
  • The Three Ages of Humanity in Dostoyevsky
  • Post-Modernism on The ‘Messianic Turn’
  • The Existential Irrelevance of Science
  • ‘My Heart is Troubled, My Spirit Has Failed Me’
  • Three Mysteries of The Cross
  • The Crossing of The Roads
  • ‘Saviour-ism’ As The Alternative To Redemption
  • Humility
  • What Is Coming?
  • The Beginning Will Return In The End
  • THE ‘FALL’ IN TAOISM= The Great Pretense Begins
  • HAIKU POETRY= The Future of Eros
  • The Real Meaning of Easter Joy
  • THE FAIRY TALE ENDING= Heroism and Magic
  • REFLECTIONS UPON LEAVING AMERICA= Joyce Carol Oates On The ‘Daemonic’
  • The American Jesus is A Superman
  • The Futility of Quarrelsome Religion
  • The Black And Red Of Passion
  • A New Slant On Passion
  • Passion Is The Adult We Do Not Become
  • ‘Call No Man Father’
  • The Third Hell
  • ‘GEHENNA’ AS HELL IN ANCIENT JUDAISM= A Misunderstood Existential Reality
  • The ‘Son of Man’
  • The Universality of The Messiah
  • The King Revealed in ‘The Least’
  • Tibetan Buddhism Takes a Messianic Direction
  • IN HELL= A Letter From A Friend
  • VAN GOGH= Painting the ‘Supernatural Realism’ of the Daemonic
  • The Existential Cross
  • REDEMPTION MAKES POSSIBLE THE FINAL SALVATION= The ‘Ontologically Transfigured’ Nature Of All Created Things
  • ‘REDACTING’ THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES= What Went Wrong in Two Messianic Religions
  • The Paradox of The Jews
  • The Right Question
  • KISMET= The Jewish Koan
  • Theodicy?
  • ORTHO-DOXIA= Its ‘Rightness’, Its Temptation, Its Heresy, Its Limitation
  • Symbol, Eikon, Poem of Grief and Fire
  • Do You Want To Go To Heaven?
  • The Post-Messianic Fire, and The Light That Serves Its Mission
  • We Start In Light and End In Fire
  • IN DARKNESS= A Polish Holocaust Film
  • This Very Hour
  • TESHUVAH= The Way of The ‘Turning’ in Hasidism Becomes The Way of the Cross in Christianity
  • The Heart Goes On
  • The Second Coming Of Christ