Author: Joakim


  • The Reflection and the Face, Part II: The Face

    In Part I you are a reflection, a conscious mind held inside a larger Mind, the way a man named Frank would be held inside your imagination, you holding him in being. Frank reasons that the source behind the worldโ€™s pattern must be a face: personal, relational, a giving and a receiving older than creation…

  • The Reflection and the Face, Part I: The Reflection

    The Dream You Cannot Wake From โ™ช (read with: Arvo Pรคrt โ€” Spiegel im Spiegel) You have had the dream where you know you are dreaming. Something tips you off: an elevator without walls, a face that shifts when you look too long, gravity doing something it shouldnโ€™t. And for a moment, inside the dream,…

  • The Fractal Nature of Reality

    Look closely at a tree. Each branch carries the shape of the whole, and each twig carries it again. Zoom into a coastline and the same jagged pattern appears at every scale. Watch lightning fork across the sky and it looks like a tree. Look at a bare tree against the sky and it looks…

  • The Voice in the Wilderness โ€” Modern John the Baptist Figures

    There is a youthful energy most of us recognize. Maybe you remember it in yourself, maybe you see it in younger people than you. A kind of rawness. The person showing early signs of the qualities, the spirit, of what is in store. Not the finished thing, but the silhouette against a distant horizon of…