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  • Drained

    We have had a very hot summer. The grass is bleached. Reservoirs and rivers are drying up. I have been feeling quite listless. The West of England has been cooler than the counties to the East, but even so, the heat is taking its toll on my energy.

    Finishing Liber Sphaerae in May was quite a push. I caught two nasty colds, then at the beginning of June I caught Covid, and that triggered a long-standing auto-immune thing. I spent a lot of June and July lying down.

    When not lying down I spent my time fixing a twenty-year old sportsbike, a 2002 Honda Fireblade. It had many things wrong with it. If you want to see me on the (now-working) bike, then
    Honda Fireblade 954: World Going Backwards – YouTube

    I cast around for a new writing project, but the feelings of listlessness triumphed. I read a vast swathe of books. If the weather cools down I will review some of them. I have completed 75% of a new video, but listlessness has claimed that too.

    We are so dependent on our energy. Listlessness isn’t merely a lack of get-up-and-go. It is a lack of the creative energy to do good things. One’s Muse goes on vacation. One can labour assiduously and produce pedestrian rubbish.

    Here is a picture of Hesiod and the Muse. You can imagine me without a mountainous view … and no Muse.

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  • Liber Sphaerae

    Liber Sphaerae is now available from Amazon. I began writing about two years ago during the first, serious lockdown, the one where the planes stopped flying and motorways were completely clear of cars. It grew indirectly out of my study of Renaissance Tarot as I tried to immerse myself in the outlook of that period. It is one thing to study the esoteric as a modern alternative worldview, and another to enter into a culture where it is the consensus reality.

    My choice to present the book as a dialogue between four main characters was a reversion to a format popular at the time (but less so today). See, for example, Reuchlin\’s On the Art of the Kabbalah. It is a good way to explore ideas, and it can be fun too, as when Socrates\’ friends are all hog-whimpering drunk in The Symposium. I wanted to write something accessible that could be enjoyed equally by a novice or a scholar.

    Liber Sphaerae on Amazon.com (also on other regional Amazons)

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