Why Sublime Heresy?
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Sublime
Adj: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe - often in relation to nature Archaic: elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence
The sublime overwhelms with awe - obliging us to face the truth of our infinitesimal, finite being. What sense does an individual make relative to the wild, relentless, enigmatic, all that is?
By definition, the sublime cannot be entirely knowable. I appreciate this intangibility and the tension that arises. The innate yearning to make concise, universal statements about meaningful experiences - and the impossibility to do so.
I wonder, can experiencing “the sublime” be a daily practice, or a state of mind?
Heresy
Noun: opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted
It’s been a while since heresy assured you a violent death, yet this word still feels potent and dangerous. Nice girls don’t engage in heresy.
How funny then to learn that this word comes from the Ancient Greek word for choice: haíresis. A youth in Ancient Greece was excouraged to study different schools of thought as a means to developing their own creed to live by. While I’m sure there were boundaries of societal norms around this, the idea of considering multiple perspectives and philosophies as a way to define your own values to live by feels… well, incredibly enlightened.
How did this self determination become a death sentence?
Sublime Heresy
The privilege of having ego stripped away by wild and inspiring ideas, then going on my own adventure with them in a way that’s authentic to me.