I'm a person who writes poems and carries broad interests in sense perception, mystical thought and spiritual practice (especially through Yoga philosophy), aesthetic experience, and spectra running from ordinary to extraordinary language. within this constellation I try to interrogate why and how our historical sensory configurations—namely, and at present, Western ocularcentrism—come to shape and/or delude contact with life as it is, its oneness, its practical as well as spiritual reality. most of all, I'm learning how to approach these questions through the filter of my own experience as a predominnatly blind person: what can I learn from my body's situation about the world coordinated within and beyond me? what does sight have to do with spirit, and what does spirit have to teach us about living rightly from within wrong life?
I'm working to bring all this to bear on modernism, that lost opportunity of reparative transformation, and thus far have been happy to take the long way around.
With Sylvie Thode, I am co-founder of Mystic Inquiries, a Townsend Working Group on interractions between the humanities and spiritual discipline. write to us any time if you'd like to know more or participate.
Vedanta, yoga, and literary vocation; practices for transcending dualist perception; transmissions and distortions of Yoga from East to West; modernism's want of mysticism; epistermology of blindness; what can spiritual power lend socialist practice; Helen Keller; Wittgenstein; Milton; Sri Aurobindo; J.H. Prynne; the Coltranes; synesthesia
