August of 2015 was the first month I posted no blog entries since I began my blogging hobby in June of 2007.
For almost a year, I’d been suffering a bit from burnout and had also begun to doubt that my more recent essays were adding much to what I’d already written over the previous 8 years or so, on my blogs and in my books— Acts of Being is the lightly edited collection of all substantial entries at both of my blogs and Catalog of Major Writings by Loyd Fueston is what the title states. I had and have ideas about moving along to fresh territory in understanding God’s Creation—this would mean largely a richer and more complex statement of an understanding already largely formed, yet, such efforts should lead to new insights. I’d also become a little more active in finishing old novels, including one I re-wrote mostly from scratch.
I’m reading and studying as I prepare to tighten up my ideas on Creation, especially on men who are both individuals and community. I’m working on novels in a more consistent and more energetic manner.
This blog, Acts of Being, is alive but just waking up from a short rest, though I have an upcoming volunteer project at my parish which will redirect my energy from mid-October to mid-November. More importantly, my priorities for a few years will be with novels and with a demanding, long-term nonfiction project—but that project will generate some essays—maybe many essays—and other forms of commentary as my thoughts on the subject matter mature. I currently plan on `freezing’ Acts of Being as of December of 2015 and starting a new collection of web writings, maybe multiple collections.
I’m reading, studying, contemplating matters and producing only vague images in my mind of a new and richer and more complex view of the relationships which define and are created being. I have a few short entries which I plan to publish over the next month or so, mere pointers to ideas I’ve already more or less developed but also pointers forward to the paths I expect to be traveling.
As I’ve stated before, I hope to at least motivate the abstraction to qualitative levels of various powerful insights of modern explorations of this world and what lies behind or underneath or above it and that will require the use, first but not only, of modern mathematics, modern algebra and the overlapping fields of modern topology and modern geometry, which have proven so useful in certain ways of understanding aspects of concrete and abstract being. This effort will also draw upon a variety of fields, modern art and literature as well as history and genetics and anthropology and physics and evolutionary theory and…
Pray for me or at least wish me luck. Pray for all of us or at least wish us luck because such an effort is needed to re-establish an understanding of being, concrete and abstract, which is necessary for a true civilization, unified and coherent and complete. As rich and properly complex as Confucian civlization and southern Asian civilizations have been—as well as those of ancient Greece and ancient Rome and Babylon and Tehren and Baghdad and Damascus and so on, none of those civilizations had so all-encompassing an understanding of reality as did Western Civilization, particularly in those promising centuries when men were exploring and speculating about the earth and then the solar system and then the entire universe and had not yet lost their understanding of understanding. More recently, the West has become a lightweight and superficial entity though possessing a lot of military and financial firepower.
Something new is coming and we can’t yet see it and won’t truly see it unless we come to a deeper understanding of the Creation in which we arose and in which we develop and live.