When the fog and clouds are getting to be… too much…
That is exactly what happened to CJ in Tangier Gardens, he sought clarity. He needed a little sunshine.
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Little Sunshine
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2023 IS RUNNING OUT
Just for a moment… while you still have time… where does your knowledge come from?
Put aside your scientific understanding about the formation of clouds and fog… and consider this image.
Explore. The image is no clearer than your understanding of what you will find hiking into this valley. This was one of the Alpine experiences of Byron, Goethe, Tolkien and Franz Hartmann.
Who is Franz Hartmann? And why does it matter? He wrote “The Foundation of Christian Mysticism”.
Occult is an interesting throw-away domain. It is like a trash can in the science and philosophy labs where everything, that doesn’t quite fit the ‘accepted’ science or philosophy, is dumped.
Franz Hartmann wrote biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus. He drew links between the past and present.
He was of the day (b.1838, d.1912) when doctors were theologians because in medicine, doctors encounter the unexplainable. And theologians deal all the time with those things unexplainable. So we end up with a theosophical trash can of unexplainables. And those things, the unexplainables, become the reason why we have faith.
As 2024 begins, do not forget to question your sources of knowledge.
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Magische… dreaming… white Christmas
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Humans and Landscape
Do you see a problem?
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Fogged In?
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77
77 years…
It has taken me 77 years (17Nov1946) to write Tangier Gardens… and I didn’t even get a t-shirt. 🧐
North Africa… 25 yrs ago
A curious geography, historically active with pirates, djinns and easy paths to drug use…
A strange place for an American college student to do his term abroad design study.
But Christopher Janus was fascinated with the Med, its sun, beaches and the Moroccan pedestrian towns and markets. CJ chose Tangier.
Read his flash fiction stories Thunderstruck, Steganophonic Streetlife and Cthulu 2000. Share his strange experiences in his series of 40 flash fiction stories entitled, Curious Tales.
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“Magical Realism”
I could never get “magical realism” until I spent too many years around the Rub al Khali–the Empty Quarter.
Then I met CJ. He was obsessed. About? I couldn’t figure it out–magical realism or the Empty Quarter.
He wrote: “How to beat, tame, survive–the Empty Quarter–life–magical realism?
Only by imagination.”
CJ tried…and got beat.
It all started in Morocco, Tangier Gardens, then KSA, Egypt and finally, the Empty Quarter.
#Morocco #Suffering 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Suffering: the foundation of beauty
Two kinds of suffering:
1. The kind they want you to know; and the other,
2. The kind they won’t tell you.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The MainStreamMedia tells you one story and Tangier Gardens tells the ‘rest of the story’.
Nature and Landscape?
Nature and landscape… CJ asked himself what was the difference? Nature ? Is it larger than landscape? He finally decided that landscape was limited by his eyesight. And nature was larger–conceptually, almost everything on this planet. That was his starting point.
But how to understand how the nature of human culture and nature at large fit together? That was always on his mind during his Moroccan adventures.
CJ? The protagonist writing his autobiography in Tangier Gardens, arcane literary fiction adventure. Buy it on Amazon via this link: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv