John Dunn

Love is the only way

Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 17:04

The They would accuse me of solipsism wouldn’t they. (Thus spake Eros)

Love is the only way

Alone? I am never alone; but I can only ever know others through love.

Without love there is only acquaintance and thingship.

But in true encounter and Love I see others’ needs as my own, and I give myself to them.

The part of my loved ones which I lost is a reality which never lived.

Reality is not the simple abstraction from the thinking act which we take as real.

When I have this abstract reality in mind, in my ordinary mundane thoughts, I am unconscious of the thinking act which gives it life and makes it be.

Abstract reality simply does not exist, having no mortality or immortality.

The concrete reality which does exist lives in my mind.

My all-embracing mind gives life to everything.

This living multiplicity of everything is my living thinking.

My all-embracing mind coterminously brings destruction to everything.

The life of the object in my thinking mind is also its death, otherwise I would be abandoning it to a fallen life petrified.

The objects of my love, affection and passion live, their immortality being their eternal mortality.

As such, they partake of the one bread.

© John Dunn.

Anagogic totalitarianism

Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 17:02

Anagogic totalitarianism

Erosentered my life, and now I know that my personality and liberty can only be conceived only on the basis of my freedom from the naturalistic,biological and primitively individualist bonds that existed before the Beginning.

My true state, the state characterised by my ‘transcendence’ of the political, historical and religious levels furnishes the only environment for the development of personality and true liberty

I carry myself beyond myself, beyond simple vegetative life.

Freedomis transcendence. My higher self transcends the lower self. This is thetranscendence that results from a rising up out of the vegetative ‘One life’.

This is the polar opposite of the sub-human self-transcendence, where the fallen individual transcends himself in the direction of collectives and demagogic movements. This results in a descent into the ‘One life’ with the concomitant loss of identity - the death of the self.

My transcendent consciousness is the total encompassing of all. My totalitarianism is ‘anagogic’, unlike that of the globalist collectivisers which is ‘catagogic’.

Anagogic: climb or ascent upwards.
Catagogic: one source defined it as "gutterward".

© John Dunn.

Salt Way across the Cotswold Hills*

Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 16:48

Hailes Church, close to the Salt Way

Salt Way across the Cotswold Hills*

All life depends on the chemical properties of salt to survive. It has been used by man for thousands of years, from food preservation to seasoning.

Salt's ability to preserve food was a founding contributor to the development of civilisation. It helped eliminate dependence on seasonal availability of food, and made it possible to transport food over large distances.

Salt is the one vital food item that cannot be grown or nurtured.

A natural product, it occurs in vast quantities in a few places.

So it became a highly valued trade item, and was considered a form of currency by certain people. Roman soldiers were even paid with it, salt,in Latin Sal, hence our word today, salary.

Many salt roads were established as early as the Bronze Age to carry salt from where it occurs naturally to where it’s needed. Today I’m riding along one of them, the Salt Way across the Cotswold Hills.

This particular Salt Way was followed by salt traders and their pack horses from the source of salt in Droitwich in Worcestershire, to Lechlade in Gloucestershire.

I’m picking up the known part of the route here near Hailes Abbey, not far from Wichcombe.

It’s still identified as the Salt Way on modern maps, and has been since road maps were first made.

*My next YouTube video will be one in which I motorcycle along one of the most historic and well-known salt ways in England.

I pickup the route near Winchcombe, which in full led from Droitwich Spain Worcestershire to Lechlade in Gloucestershire. The route has been in existence since the Iron Age.

As ever, this is a sketched out basis of commentary to the video, which will slowly come together over the next couple of weeks. Please accept that this first rough draft is written for the spoken word, with all the textual liberties that this entails. This material takes a little pulling together, hence I might as well use the text here just to keep the home page fresh for Google searchers. Please bear with me.*

© John Dunn.