Questions We Must Answer

Discovered in 1972 off the western coast of Calabria in southern Italy, this is one of two full-size ancient Greek bronzes. The statue, cast around 460–450 BC, stands 198 cm (78 inches) tall.

…The work is Jung’s “Book of the Dead”, his descent into the hell, his attempt to establish a relationship with the dead. Jung realizes that if we don’t come to terms with the dead we simply cannot live, and that our lives depend on the answers we give to their unanswered questions…

We are convinced that we are the ones asking the questions, but that’s not the case. It’s the dead that revive us.

~ SONU SHAMDASANl

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every man / every woman carries a firmament inside

and the stars in it are not the stars in the sky

without imagination there is no memory

without imagination there is no sensation

without imagination there is no will, desire…

the war is the war for the human imagination

and no one can fight it but you and no one can fight it for you…

the imagination is not only holy, it is precise

it is not only fierce, it is practical

men die everyday for the lack of it,

it is vast and elegant

~ Diane Di Prima, from RANT

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Our ancestors, both recent and ancient, have left unanswered questions for us…