In memory of my dear friend Muhammad Alhawaj, who died of Coronavirus while studying in Saint Petersburg. This urban maze! no friendly face, A sprawl of blocks, the viral spread. Struck down you were, thrown off, defaced The final room, a whaft of dread. Your memories, dreams, a list of needs; Ambition yearns, [...]
CODE SWITCHER Homie, I’m a code switcher Rule ditcher, verse pitcher They call me the glossary enricher Word stitcher, poetic bewitcher When I pen my letters, they say I’m quite lettered A vocab trend setter, unchained, untethered I say it better, while you stutter and dither I can’t be bettered, semantically unfettered! I encode the [...]
By: Wael Al-Mahdi (2012) Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. ~ Erich Fromm My Faith, she walketh by my side She frees my soul of every care A sense of light shall here abide The scent of spring is everywhere. The [...]
الوعي باللاوعي: نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ الجزء الأول وائل المهدي مقدمة تتناول هذه الوريقات القصيرة أفكار العالم كارل يونغ الرئيسية، وخصوصاً أفكاره كما يمكن تطبيقها في فهم الأدب من ناحية، والنظر إلى الأحداث العامة من ناحية أخرى، وليس فقط من ناحية الصحة أو المرض النفسييَن. يجب أن ألفت نظر القارئ أولاً إلى أنني [...]
by Wael Al-Mahdi (2011). A poem inspired by an oft recurring dream theme. It is a picture, frozen in words, of one aspect of a prolific unconscious. My constant affliction -which seizes with sere conscience A poet’s soul; when the sun, at its zenith, and the night, in recess Ghastly images unfold, like chapters [...]
By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) “The Jinn are dead.” Much has been made of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” statement, with people misunderstanding it more often than not. Many have taken it as a direct affront on God, a lèse majesté, a statement of vile, filthy godlessness, and also as a call for all [...]
By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” –Albert Camus Here’s a maddening thought: as we speak, there are obscure psychological processes going on in your mind the nature of which is completely mysterious to you. In our age of scientific certainty, this is what is most irritating about [...]
By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Why does philosophy appear so difficult? I think one of the biggest reasons is that it’s not written for clarity. Either the author is adopting an outdated style or he’s intentionally complicating a relatively simple concept because people generally dismiss simple concepts. Apparently many philosophers had the feeling, be it conscious [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) وائل المهدي “Truth is what you have to sacrifice the most for” In a time of social and psychic derangement, where the individual as well as society are crushed by unknown inner forces, there is nothing for the thinking man to do but to vivisect pieces of his living self, stuff them [...]
The tauroctony – Mithras slays the bull of the unconscious while looking towards Sol Invictus. By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Carl Gustav Jung drove home to us the reality that myth in a collective sense, and dreams in an individual sense, are reflections of the unconscious. He stated plainly that dreams, along with other myths [...]
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