Is cinema dead? Not while Terrence Malick is still alive: Though even when he leaves us, even if the big-budget epic films creating our contemporary mythology steal all the attention, epic-mythic cinema is probably closer than small niche films to cinema’s ultimate purpose in our civilization: to work out the cosmological and thematic structure of […]
All processes move from early stages of individuation to collective and universalizing stages (like the houses of astrology). America is the late stage of European civilization, hence we have specialized in popular culture and collective/cooperative arts like film and TV. Conservatives like Spengler think of these stages as a fall, but I argue that mature
John David Ebert recently did some videos on Aurobindo’s “The Life Divine”. We discuss below: Adam to John David Ebert: I am really happy to see you reading Life Divine so enthusiastically. Reading it changed my life back in the day. It is probably my favorite book, though Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts is a
