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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 1, 24th April 2022

on the true power and go down into our own
hearts, as methodical, rigorous, and clearheaded
explorers (10).”

And what will we find there? That is for each
to see, to feel, to explore by the light of his
own being. But perhaps the journey is worth
it. And we may, if we are lucky, find that
we are more than we think, for our inner
worlds are as real as they are fantastical, as
unknown as they are dark and wonderful.
There are gods and demons, fairies and wild
beasts, hounds of darkness and sons of light
— worlds of infernal horror and empyrean
heights and all else in between beyond the
So, where do we go? Where in this reality do ebony gates of our dim earthly existence,
we find our fantasy? “The age of adventures where the lines between reality and fantasy
is over (9)”, said the great adventurer. We blur, if they ever existed at all:
are prisoners of our progress, crushed under
the weight of our so-called civilisation. Yet “… imagination’s comet trail of dream,
perhaps this tragedy, this eternal damnation Took now a close shape of reality.
of our souls to a search for wonder that The gulf between dream-truth, earth-fact was
constantly closes in around us, strangling our crossed,
hearts, is itself a fantasy, an unreality. For God The wonder-worlds of life were dreams no
could not be so cruel. Or so unimaginative. more (11).”
Perhaps he created much more than our eyes
can see. We are no longer buyers in “utility’s immense
bazaar”, enamoured of “logic’s infallible ...
As one who loved truly said: chain (12)”, purveyors of an objective reality.
We want not mythical images or glorious
“Hypnotized as we are by the “inescapable” performances, as desperate attempts neither
scientific conditions of the present world, we to recover our lost wonder, nor to delude
have come to believe that our hope lies in an ourselves with subjective fantasies, which
ever greater proliferation of machines, which are really nothing but momentary escapes
will see better than we do, hear better than from the decorated impotence of our lives.
we do, calculate better than we do, heal better We don’t believe, nor do we disbelieve: we
than we do — and finally, perhaps, live better want to see, to feel. We are seekers of another
than we do. Indeed, we must first realize that world, of “the Real towards which our strivings
we can do better than our machines, and that move, the secret grandiose meaning of our lives
the enormous Mechanism that is suffocating (13).”
us is liable to collapse as quickly as it came
into being, provided we are willing to seize There is a collective dimension too — the

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