John Moriarty

John, what have you been reading this

week? Okay, I've been reading a remarkable book called A Hut at the Edge of the Village by John Moriarty.

It's a collection of the writings of the Irish philosopher, mythographer, theologian, John Moriarty, of whom I knew... nothing until very recently.

I'm working with a writer called Martin Shaw, who is the editor of this collection of John Moriarty's writings, and he commended it to me, and I read it, and it's, I have to say, exactly up my street.

The book, What Do You Need to Know About John Moriarty? He, as Paul Durkan says on the back, he is the most outstanding philosopher-theologian since Bishop Berkeley, Ireland's most outstanding philosopher-theologian since Bishop Berkeley in the 18th century.

If you are interested in... how autobiography, folklore, myth, and theology can be woven into incredibly powerful, suggestive, complex texts.

I would suggest that some time spent in John Moriarty's company is well...

He's kind of like...

Behold it.

Irish writer and mystic John Moriarty calls this silver branch perception, a way of beholding the world that recognises the physical and spirit worlds as a seamless continuum.

This full moon, turn that way of seeing towards yourself.

Behold what you know without letting fear diminish it.

I think that shows that,

I think John Moriarty, if he was alive, would feel the same way about this.

Like, why is it that we're more accustomed to beans swimming in a sauce of tomato than we are seeing a bean

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