This week has seen a series of unexpected events which have kept me by the sea’s edge and nowhere near this laptop. However, that now gives me an opportunity to share this letter to two friends from May 2021. There is a profound and sterile solipsism in the death-denying culture I am surrounded by, perhaps where you live, too. In a series of emails, we discussed death, life and the initiatory process, including the traditional, oracular place of childhood dreams of dismemberment and revivification, for those who would later be called to work in liminal realms.
This is followed by a 2022 rendering of a recurring childhood dream of mine, within the context of later life. Deepest good greetings to you wherever you are, from a sunny, warm day in East Dorset.
First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, September 11th 2023.
Episode 43 - We Forget the Ending