This picture was taken by myself, sometime between the fall of 2008 and the rise of 2009, in Alppila. We lived in a small cave on the ground floor. It was really halfway inside the rock, below the street. The bookshelf shows you many of those introduced in an earlier post (see January 2008), but also some books not mentioned before. Like The Book of Sophia ("Sofia"), begun in the summer of 2007, and still not quite finished. Or The Book of Goetheanum from 2008, which I have kept waiting. In the middle of the back row, with black covers, is The Book of Angels & Men ("Enkelit ja Ihmiset"), brought to me by Jussi Matikainen from Old Riga in 2005. It was ready before Easter 2010. And on the left, front row, the small book lying there, called The Book of Koli, was thrown away in 2011. I have saved the notes elsewhere. Below it, one can see another very small Book, named after Patmos. I bought it in Tallinn just before our visit to Greece in 2007, and it worked as a travel note book. From September to October 2007 I also used it as a note book on a lecture series. After graduating from the University of Helsinki (the department of cultural anthropology) I began another kind of study, or actually, continued on a path I had found long ago, before even getting into the world of anthropology. The questions I had been asking since the nineties were making way, with some answers, to many new questions................................
O chosen love, O frozen love
O tangle of matter and ghost
O darling of angels, demons and saints
And the whole broken-hearted host
Gentle this soul
-L.C. / The Window
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The esoterical themes may sound radical and looney-tooney, but I have tried to maintain a scientific and even sceptic (in the good sense of the word) approach to the topics. It is an unfortunate truth that these themes have been neglected and despised in the official scientific fields of research, and no good will come out of that. Many bad things have already happened because of the attitude problems in the academic world. It is crucial that honest research is being done also concerning the spiritual. But I still have faith in the old-fashioned humanist tradition, too, at least if it is understood in a certain way. The questions are there, and they are truthful as can be. For the real answers, there are no standards in any of the official sciences today. We need to save these quest(ion)s for the centuries to come.
"Years ago I made the last changes to a certain book (Parsifal ja Klingsorin Maaginen Puutarha, 2007). But I still found myself editing. All through the years I had been finishing the work every once and in a while, trying to get it all together, including a few quotes to the original sketch (that could be found in the library of Helsinki university in one copy). But the version published in 2013 is still the same book, with some details and lines added or cleared out. If you want to buy / see the text, go to Vaaka bookstore (and my own KAFENEION archives). Available in Finnish only. But there are many long quotes in English, so one can try to guess what it is all about. Still, I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone, Finnish speaking or not. It is a crossover of anthropology, aesthetics (philosophy), comparative religion, anthroposophy and new age. I have notes and fragments for an English essay on the same subject, to be published later. Or maybe not, who knows."