Suicide of the West : the gods have fled our gold-infested amnesia

“For love expires as soon as gods have flown”

The Death of Empedocles, Holderlin

The perfect storm — suicide rates are skyrocketing, not only are people not having babies, they’re not even having sex- and this is true all across the Western world.

The gods have fled, taking our very life with them.

Unless a man prepare an abode for the gods, the gods will not return.

But perhaps they have not fled, perhaps we have stopped remembering them.

The physicist Rupert Sheldrake claims the brain is not like a computer. It’s more like a television receiver that tunes into the cosmic consciousness that is everywhere, and that when we remember something from long ago, we actually “morphically resonate” with ourselves in the past through morphic fields that exist through time and space.

Remembering is an active practice, by doing so we morphically resonate, and incarnate, God’s presence in the world.

Peter Leithart reviews a new book (Knowledge by Ritual by Dru Johnson) and says,

“our knowing is connected to what we do with our bodies. We don’t know as disembodied minds; without bodies and the tools by which we extend our bodies, we couldn’t know at all. Further, we don’t come to know…