This Personal Freedom To Think

What Is Courage? This Courage Will Not Be The Opposite Of Despair. We Shall Often Be Faced With Despair, As Indeed Every Sensitive Person Has Been During The Last Several Decades In This Country. Hence Kierkegaard And Nietzsche And Camus And Sartre Have Proclaimed That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Despair; It Is, Rather, The Capacity To Move Ahead In Spite Of Despair.

Vanity And Narcissism — The Compulsive Need To Be Admired And Praised — Undermine One's Courage, For One Then Fights On Someone Else's Conviction Rather Than One's Own.

Our Thesis Is That Symbols And Myths Are An Expression Of Man's Unique Self-consciousness, His Capacity To Transcend The Immediate Concrete Situation And See His Life In Terms Of 'the Possible,' And That This Capacity Is One Aspect Of His Experiencing Himself As A Being Having A World.

The Receptivity Of The Artist Must Never Be Confused With Passivity. Receptivity Is The Artist's Holding Him Or Herself Alive And Open To Hear What Being May Speak.

The Daimonic Is Any Natural Function Which Has The Power To Take Over The Whole Person. Sex And Eros, Anger And Rage, And The Craving For Power Are Examples. The Daimonic Can Be Either Creative Or Destructive And Is Normally Both.