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Into the Far Wilderness of Sanity.
On Defending Hypocritical Asceticism.
Jack Leahy
Aug 5
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Fuge, Tace, Quies.
On Seeking the Desert of Stillness in a Time of Radical Upheaval.
Jack Leahy
Jul 20
29
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The Path Ahead.
Walking together (virtually, and otherwise) through unclear times.
Jack Leahy
Jul 13
24
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A Brief Moment of Being Found in the Cosmos.
On Stargazing at a Remote Benedictine Monastery.
Jack Leahy
Jun 28
21
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Truly Thou art a Hidden God.
On Walking in Darkness.
Jack Leahy
Jun 17
15
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There Your Heart Shall be Also.
On the Way.
Jack Leahy
Jun 14
13
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The Great Silence.
I am finally at the Monastery. I started reading The Sunlilies, by Graham Pardun upon arrival. The perfect book to begin my stay here. Once I am…
Jack Leahy
May 30
7
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Music for the Post-Anthropocene.
The algorithm (praise be unto it) has recently alerted me to the work of the American composer John Luther Adams. This is music that glimpses wh…
Jack Leahy
May 12
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Music for the New Enlightened Dark Age.
Postmodernism, metamodernism (and simulation) and the musical hope of the West.
Jack Leahy
May 10
9
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Tenebrae.
The holiness of the ordinary in the present darkness.
Jack Leahy
May 2
9
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Setting Out...
Seeking the Mystery of Being at a Remote Benedictine Monastery .
Jack Leahy
Apr 19
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This is Stillness in the West, a newsletter about seeking Healing of the Soul and Community in the Age of Nihilism.
Jack Leahy
Apr 13
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