Across cultures and ages, human beings have told stories about death and renewal. At their core lies a simple pattern: an exceptional figure suffers betrayal or destruction, yet from that destruction comes renewal — whether in new life, legacy, or cosmic transformation. Carl Jung called this an archetype of the collective unconscious. It is not …
A Meditation on Power, Presence, and the Limits of Human Effort “Who has seen the wind?Neither I nor you:But when the leaves hang trembling,The wind is passing through.”— Christina Rossetti Psalm 103:15–16 (KJV)15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.16 For the wind passeth over …
A critique of comfortable American middle class life and latter day hippy communities Introduction Captain Fantastic, written and directed by Matt Ross (1970 -), is a film that grew directly out of the director’s own life and values. Ross has described it as “the most personal story I’ve ever written,” inspired by his experience of …