Traveling Anarchist Circus

02/01/2024

Happy holidays from Correspondences!

Looking forward, we're excited to soon publish our special issue on translation and esotericism (guest edited by Wouter Hanegraaff and Mriganka Mukhopadhyay).

But, we're also appreciative of prior achievements, such as 2018's Volume 6, no. 1, https://buff.ly/3TyMyWb, our special issue on ethnography guest edited by Egil Asprem and Susannah Crockford, or 2022's Volume 10, no. 2, which celebrates our 10-year anniversary, and includes research articles by José Vieira Leitão, Misha Hoo, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce: https://buff.ly/3pauK3a. Looking back to see all this participation with leading scholars, and seeing the growth we've undergone since our 2013 debut (https://buff.ly/3ttmmSe), makes us grateful for where we've been and eager for where we're going.

What kinds of special issue topics would you like to see Correspondences cover?

07/04/2023

The Creator - Come and See

Various religions depict the Creator as something outside of us. But Kabbalah explains that it is forbidden to imagine the Creator as an image of any kind, that the Creator is a quality that exists within each of us.

The Creator is the quality of love and bestowal. The meaning of the word “Creator” (Borre in Hebrew) is “Come and See” (Bo u Re’e), meaning come and discover this quality within you.

There is no external, foreign element for whom we work! We work on correcting ourselves, on attaining the qualities of love and giving, the Creator.

Around two thousand years ago, we lost the feeling of the Creator—we were exiled and lost the true picture of the world. We began to think that the Creator was someone who existed separately from us, rather than a quality that appeared within us.

Instead of depicting the Creator as the primary and foremost quality of Creation, which clothes within us, we began to think of Him as a separate and foreign entity.

Rav Michael Laitman
Artwork by Joma Sipe

08/02/2023

"I was born to find goblins
in their caves
and chase moonlight

to see shadows and seek
hidden rivers
to hear the rain fall on
dry leaves
and chat a bit with death
across foggy nights

I was born to watch owls
in dark forests
and hear coyotes cry,
to feel trees tremble and
the grass sleep
✨
To taste cold air and smell
the damp earth
and watch ghostly shapes
disappear across foggy
nights."

♥️ J. Kavanaugh

12/01/2023

“Among other things,
you'll find that you're not
the first person who was
ever confused and frightened
and even sickened by human
behavior.

You're by no means alone
on that score, you'll be
excited and stimulated
to know.

Many, many men have been
just as troubled morally and Spiritually as you are right
now.

Happily, some of them kept
records of their troubles.
You'll learn from them,
if you want to.

Just as someday, if you
have something to offer,
someone will learn something
from you.

It's a beautiful reciprocal
arrangement.
✨
And it isn't education.
It's history.
It's poetry.”

🌞 J.D. Salinger, The Catcher
In the Rye
🎨 Daniel Eskridge, The Long
Journey Home

03/04/2022

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNFV88mAuMA

extrait de l album vendredi M'obsede

09/03/2022

Gary Clail These Things Are Worth Fighting For. 1993 single charting at #45 in the UK in May 1993, and #157 in Australia in July 1993. From the album 'Drea...

08/03/2022

01/01/2022

Prussians absolutely seething

01/01/2022

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrat…