Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, take them as gentle meditations and let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
The Symbolic Code
From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep, we are surrounded by symbols — the symbols we use to measure time, the ones to communicate, the ones to signal "stop" or "go" when we are in traffic, we use money, which is also a symbol, something humans have created as a symbol of economic value. If we go to a church, mosque, temple, shrine, once again we use religious symbols. If we study, we use either verbal or numerical symbols. We do all that often without realising how complex and complicated our world of symbols is. Our brains interpret them without noticing because they are part of our cultural code, cultural inheritance, the same way we do not notice our body's natural, genetically predisposed responses.
Liberty Within a Structure
Johan Huizinga, a Dutch linguist and cultural theorist had an aesthetic approach to history — art, spectacle and play, for him, are not just an accidental consequence of civilisation but rather its important and often fundamental part. I have chosen an excerpt from his book "Homo Ludens", because it so beautifully illustrates how even in the children's play, there is an innate sense of structure, and it, like Huizinga suggests, reveals a profound and noble innate sense of rhythm. Children in their game, it is said here, do not have tolerance for the spoilsports. The world of game, of play is a tiny, enchanting microcosm in which the individuals communicate through rules they have created and agreed on. It is their creation and spoilsport is a deconstructionist without a vision — who takes more pleasure in separating and alienating than in communing and connecting.