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Original essays by Arthur Durkee (White Dragon):
These occasional essays are, I suppose, spiritual essays, sutras, articles of consciousness and faith, notes towards spiritual autobiography. They come to me about once a year, or less, at times when I have been thinking about many things. When an essay is ready to manifest, like a poem that comes through after much contemplation, it often feels like dictation. As if all the writer must do is get out of the way, and let the ideas and language pour forth of their own volition. Suddenly, I begin to write, and can spend all day or night at it, writing in a fever of white heat. I never know it's done until it's done. There is usually very little to revise, afterwards; perhaps to clarify a point or punch up a phrase, but nothing structural.
The essays, in form, have been called spiral essays: their themes recur, recycle back, move in a spiral manner, the main point re-appearing more than once, but slightly altered each time both by its new context and by the slight reframing and restating that occurs with each repeat. This is a natural, organic form, derived from the material itself, and not a conscious form I set out to create with intention.
The Pathfinders: A Sermon to the Dead
Late Night Thoughts While Listening to Hildegard of Bingen (A
Modern Ecclesiastes)
The Way of the Spiritual Warrior
Fictive Certainties
Canyons
Nothing Special
The Sacred Heart in the Labyrinth
Double Standards
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