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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Pijaca / The Marketplace

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degrees Celsius.

We have to meet for coffee.

I have just returned from Macedonia where I witnessed the Orthodox celebration of Epiphany in remembrance of Christ’s baptism. In the town of Struga, people lined up to jump in the icy river in order to catch a cross thrown by an Orthodox priest. It is believed that he who catches the cross will be healthy and fortunate throughout the year. As part of the custom, the catcher of the cross goes through the town, from house to house, followed by brass musicians, to collect money for his act.

When we say that a person knows himself only through his engagement with his environment we are not referring to any geographical space. Rather, a person’s environment is his field of concern.

Интергалактик
The work of Monika Lang

“Once when the price of spices in Holland fell, the merchants had a few cargoes sunk in the sea in order to jack up the price. This was an excusable, perhaps even necessary, deception. Do we need something similar in the world of the spirit? Are we so sure that we have achieved the highest, so that there is nothing left for us to do except piously to delude ourselves into thinking that we have not come that far, simply in order to have something to occupy our time?”

Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling / Repetition”, Princeton 1983, 121.

This vlog entry, recorded during a trip to the Norwegian town of Narvik, inside the Arctic Circle, is an attempt to portray a certain feeling I had throughout the journey. As far back as I can remember I was always fascinated by the Arctic and this journey was like a pilgrimage in a way.

The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively.

Music: “Insight” by Joy Division.