I never went to church as a child. I did not .

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.