Once upon a time, I've learned from reading the comic strips, schoolkids coming back from summer vacation were made to write essays on "What I Did Last Summer." (Linus to Lucy: "What did I do last summer?" Lucy to Linus: "You read comic books and watched TV.") I was in elementary school back … [Read more...]
“Sexualized Spirituality” and the Heretic Rabbi – Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Moravian Connection
We talked about William Blake, a little bit. We talked a little bit about Jacob Frank, the 18th-century Polish-Jewish cult leader who carried the faith of the long-dead and even longer-discredited Messiah Sabbatai Zevi into previously undreamed of territories of weirdness and erotic … [Read more...]