Alex Proyas’ Knowing (2009) blends mystery, disaster spectacle, and biblical symbolism, ending in a stunning vision of apocalypse and renewal.
Month: September 2025
The attempt to read the New Testament as history has occupied scholars, believers, and sceptics for centuries. From the moment the printing press placed the Bible into ordinary hands, the question has been asked again and again: What really happened? The search often becomes obsessive, because the stakes are not merely academic. To discard the message of the Bible is to risk being cast into “outer darkness,” as Jesus himself put it. To accept it uncritically is to surrender reason to myth.
A reflection on Jesus, Paul, and the problem of dogma. Against original sin and externalised divinity, this essay argues that nurturing human potential and living within mystery are more important than rigid belief.
The “Holy Spirit” of Christianity is not a continuation of the Hebrew ruach but a mistranslation that became a doctrine. What began as the roar of wind in the Old Testament turned into an abstraction in Luke–Acts — and finally into a third “person” of the Trinity.
Jesus and Paul emphasized that the state is temporary and subordinate to a higher, internal moral law rooted in love. Jesus taught that true sovereignty lies within, advocating for love over coercion. Paul affirmed spiritual law in the heart, highlighting that love fulfills the law, making secular authority provisional and ultimately secondary.
If Part 2 traced the collapse into a New Age dystopia of screens, illusions, and false hopes, Part 3 asks whether another path remains. Drawing on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 and Paul’s words to the Corinthians, it explores anarchy not as chaos but as positive, constructive cooperation — the “marriage of true minds” that endures storms, rejects domination, and offers hope of renewal through awareness and love.
From Laurie Lee’s orchard to Orwell’s telescreen, from Woodstock to the glow of the smartphone, this essay traces how old certainties dissolved into a New Age dystopia. Television replaced the Bible, schools promised equality but delivered disillusion, and music preached freedom before sliding into indulgence. What remains is a culture of spectacle, vanity, and despair—a warning that still speaks to us.
Communications have stood at the heart of every major cultural change, from the printing press to the digital age. Each new medium — the press, photography, the motor car, the aeroplane, radio, television, and now the World Wide Web — has accelerated the exchange of information, shaking the cultural foundations of the West to their core. Religion, once the glue of society, has grown less credible with every wave, and the vacuum has been filled not by renewal but by the noise of globalisation and consumerism. At the root of every advance lies the same principle: miniaturisation. Each invention becomes smaller, faster, more personal — and therefore more powerful than the last.
A reflection on Shakespeare’s vision of futility, Christianity’s imposed meaning, the Romantics’ fragile beauty, and existentialism’s void — and why the true flame of life is found within, constant and indestructible.