Creative Writing Wordshops Newsletter November 2024

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can’t come to visit you
unless you aren’t there. (Angelus Silesius)

Someone knocks on God’s door. Who’s there? God calls. It is I. Go away says God. Puzzled, the person knocks a second time. Who’s there? Let us in. God flings wide the door. Is this what the mystic Angelus Silesius hints at? Or St Paul’s I live yet not I but Christ liveth within me? This month I touch on what has intrigued mystics, philosophers and poets across millennia – and now neuroscientists. The paradox, ambiguity and illusion of the first-person singular. Their insights allude to how we spend a lifetime thinking with
and about the I when there isn’t one. Knotting the rope that binds. Creating a theatre of the absurd.

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