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Poem: in memory of a friend who died of Coronavirus

by admin on 5, December, 2020 · 0 Comments

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, [...]

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Code Switcher – language lover’s “rap”

by admin on 25, November, 2020 · 0 Comments

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 [...]

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Saint Faith

Holding Fast to My Faith

by admin on 30, June, 2012 · 1 Comments

  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 [...]

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الوعي باللاوعي: نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ

by admin on 29, October, 2011 · 1 Comments

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 [...]

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The Sea Winds

by admin on 14, September, 2011 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Nietzsche the Suffering Atheist

by admin on 2, June, 2011 · 14 Comments

      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 [...]

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Fighting the Good Fight against the Unconscious

by admin on 5, May, 2011 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Five Things I learned from Nietzsche

by admin on 24, April, 2011 · 9 Comments

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 [...]

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Aphorisms under Siege أمثال في زمن الحصار

by admin on 14, April, 2011 · 1 Comments

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 [...]

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Mithraism and the Unconscious as Enemy

by admin on 27, March, 2011 · 2 Comments

  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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