Context in Everything

by Charles Wysocki

     Trying to understand anything without context will only result in understanding nothing. (This blog post is, therefore, related to the blog post a fortnight ago regarding ideologues.) There are those who have their BOOK. And it is their BOOK by which they judge everything. But ... a BOOK belongs in a library where you will find lots of books about lots of things. And that is context. Here's an "outtake" from the wee book I recently wrote -- "Context and frames of reference in poetry and in paintings, in environmentalism and in enlightenment, in music and myth, in comparative religion and in chaos theory, in reptiles crawling over hot sands and in crustaceans clambering over sandy sea floors, in philosophy and in psychology, in Van Gogh’s spirals and in a seeker’s heart on a lonely desert trail. Connecting everything.  Meanings in birds and in botany, in aliens from space and in archaeology, in creation and in evolution, in the ancient and in a future history, in God in no-god in all the Greek and Norse and Thai Gods, in the transcendental and in the intuitive. It all rings true. It all calls out."