Essays

REFLECTING ON ANIMALS AND HUMANS

Recently, a friend mailed the link to a 14 minutes video in which Anna Breytenbach talks with a black panther in a South African wildlife reserve. Since its rescue and arrival in the reserve six months earlier, the panther was unmanageably aggressive. Persuaded by a common friend, a very skeptical reserve caretaker invited Anna Breytenbach, …

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JACQUES LUSSEYRAN

There is no more intimate and detailed account of the experience and workings of the inner light than the one given by Jacques Lusseyran in his book “And There Was Light”.   Jacques Lusseyran, born in Paris in 1924, was a professor of French literature, first in France and later in the United States.   …

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ALEXANDRO JODOROWSKI

Life surpasses art. If someone would write a novel having Alejandro Jodorowski as the main character, nobody would ever believe that such a man truly exists. I discovered him recently, less than three months ago. Searching on YouTube for information about David Lynch’s ‘Dune’, I saw a fragment of Frank Pavich’s documentary on Alejandro Jodorowski’s …

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