The Writing
Essays, non-fiction, academic text, interpretation (S.O.S. Booklets), and prose offering, expounding upon, explaining, and guiding as I address every aspect of the life-experience as it is redefined in light of the metaphysical premises discussed, and reinforced by creations, traditions, functions, and archetypes from across human history. Identification of integral, meaningful patterns pervading all spirituality, archetype, and artform allow Daniel to offer new organizations for apparently amorphous and seemingly distinct messages…into approachable, comprehensible, and interconnected step-by-step processes.
School of Smirk Interpretation Booklet: Interpreting “Sonnets 55, 71, 116, and 121” of William Shakespeare
School of Smirk Interpretation Booklet: Shakespeare’s Puck; a response to and reflection of Ovid’s Epilogue; Hermes reborn
School of Smirk Interpretation Booklet: Interpreting Prospero’s Epilogue (‘The Tempest’; Act V), and Titania’s Changeling (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’; Act II, scene i) of William Shakespeare
"The Etymological Path" (Image: Lady with Ermine, by L. Da Vinci) Student Access
"The Four Transitions" (Image: Christ Taking Leave of The Apostles) Student Access
"Cane and Abel Notebook" (Image: Kyparissos into a Tree, by Luigi Ademollo) Student Access
"Message" (Image: The World Tree) Student Access
"The Holy Spirit", written in Greek (Image: Sonnet 71, by W. Shakespeare)
"Our Project is to Please Notebook" (Image: Sonnet 55, by W. Shakespeare) Student Access
"Interpretation of Poems of G. Seferis and his translation of P. Eluard" (Image: Woman In Front Of The Sun, by J. Miró) Student Access
Interpretations of Prometheus (Image: Prometheus and Atlas, Laconian, black-figure, kylix, by the Arkesilas Painter, 560-550 BC) Student Access
Metaphysics, modern psychology, artwork, folklore, mythology, science, spirituality, our species-particularity and much more are synthesized, intertwine, and manifest in each other, illuminating functions for both Art and Religion, letting us understand their sources, nature, behaviors, purposes, potentials - qualified by these fundamental and shared aspects of our Humanity and Universe -, and so, allowing us to most readily engage them; to determine the most unique, beneficial, efficient, and sympathetic paths to their comprehension and utilization. Click on any of the images above to read the work mentioned in the picture’s caption.
Included in this section is a form of writing akin to “The Notebooks”, which you’ll find aptly entitled “The _ Notebook” (for example). These, like “The Notebooks”, function and include the same vast and varying range of subject, product, style, form, scope, and presentation-type…from notetaking, to declaration, to art, to proverb, to pondering and wandering, to transcription, to prose, interpretation of ancient and epic as well as tiny and contemporary, story-telling, confirming/inciting/illuminating/demonstrative experience, hermeneutics, synthesis, expounding, improvisations, experiments and beyond. The difference being that these were recorded into a computer and so find themselves with a distinct type/degree of development/editing; an inevitable reflection of the many influences of typing at a screen versus handwriting into paper; a product I thought deserved a place in “The Writing”. As is the case in “The Notebooks”, these function -among other things- as a form of notetaking, recording for future reference and reflection relevance as it appears in the immediate life-process (the moment rarely allowing much time to develop, edit, and expound upon the thought/concept/experience/idea of note which has unexpectedly arisen). As such, some sections may seem incomplete, confusing, chicken-scratchy, dizzying, dense, or lacking explanation/definition of terms. Don’t be offended or overwhelmed. Just go to the next section…that note was for me. You will find some sections quite complete and sympathetic in presentation.