Hey Dom,
What a brilliant piece. I'm afraid the UK is more sectarian than anything we ever witnessed in Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. You either believe in what your senses and your experience informs you, or you bow down to whatever you're told to believe in order to preserve your job, your professional standing, your family, you…
What a brilliant piece. I'm afraid the UK is more sectarian than anything we ever witnessed in Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. You either believe in what your senses and your experience informs you, or you bow down to whatever you're told to believe in order to preserve your job, your professional standing, your family, your friends and acquaintances, in essence, your whole way of life. You're also right about this being fundamentally about 'religion' or something bigger than ourselves, bigger than our ego. Allan Stevo on Substack suggested a New Year's resolution of reading the Bible over the whole year. As an atheist, I jumped at the opportunity and am staying the distance. What a crock of shit Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers have been so far.......a lesson in Jewish propaganda if I ever read one. I believe the New Testament may be better, but I've always wondered how the Roman Empire declined, yet this new fangled ROMAN Catholicism thrived and of course became the richest empire probably until the British Empire. Anyhow, I've never read the Bible, so as I'm 60 this year, I thought it was time I did so. I've also followed Rupert Sheldrake for over a decade now and if anybody knows how our physical state of being combines with our spiritual sense of being, then it is him. His three books sit under my bed and I will read them this year too.
I hope you get 'Postcard' on the stage this year, but given that Phantom has just ended a 35-year run in New York, maybe the world needs to 'reset' before we get anything approaching normality re-installed.
Hey Dom,
What a brilliant piece. I'm afraid the UK is more sectarian than anything we ever witnessed in Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. You either believe in what your senses and your experience informs you, or you bow down to whatever you're told to believe in order to preserve your job, your professional standing, your family, your friends and acquaintances, in essence, your whole way of life. You're also right about this being fundamentally about 'religion' or something bigger than ourselves, bigger than our ego. Allan Stevo on Substack suggested a New Year's resolution of reading the Bible over the whole year. As an atheist, I jumped at the opportunity and am staying the distance. What a crock of shit Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers have been so far.......a lesson in Jewish propaganda if I ever read one. I believe the New Testament may be better, but I've always wondered how the Roman Empire declined, yet this new fangled ROMAN Catholicism thrived and of course became the richest empire probably until the British Empire. Anyhow, I've never read the Bible, so as I'm 60 this year, I thought it was time I did so. I've also followed Rupert Sheldrake for over a decade now and if anybody knows how our physical state of being combines with our spiritual sense of being, then it is him. His three books sit under my bed and I will read them this year too.
I hope you get 'Postcard' on the stage this year, but given that Phantom has just ended a 35-year run in New York, maybe the world needs to 'reset' before we get anything approaching normality re-installed.
Thanks so much! At least somebody is still reading ...