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Ladders Made of Water
You’ll find Included in this collection a selection of public presentations and thoughts on our spiritual and ecological crises, including reflections on Jacques Ellul, Simone Weil, Teilhard de Chardin, Marshall McLuhan and Anne Carson, lyrics for an unfinished rock opera, a dramatic homily on Harry Potter, meditations on Dune Part One, Nomadland and Eternals, poems and the parable “Manna”, a Mash-Up of Aphorisms and Fragments, and Biographical Pages on his in-process
work Mysteria.
work Mysteria.
82 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2023
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May 18, 2026
I was lucky enough to have B.W. Powe as a professor at York University and enjoyed his classes immensely! This book was no different and matched his style well.
Reading this work was like sitting above a river and only laying your hand on the rolling surface at the top. The world may say one thing that you see, but so much more splits out, swirls, rolls away from that in a current of all these other meanings below it in currents you can barely catch. It causes all these thoughts to break up and away from one thing you might read, cause all these interesting connections. And because of that splitting nature I found the best way to read something like this is to have one eye on the page and the other on the world around you. For the mind HAS to be loose enough, mouldable enough, for the fractals to make sense and spiral to different connections. I found if I tried to concentrate too hard it didn’t make sense. But the moment I stepped back a world of meaning was waiting there and I truly enjoyed delving into it.
Much commentary on the paradox of progressing in the human race that advances us and yet destroys at once in the same moment. Extremely true, and extremely sad. So much potential, so much possibility but so much pain too. Loved the insight.
Reading this work was like sitting above a river and only laying your hand on the rolling surface at the top. The world may say one thing that you see, but so much more splits out, swirls, rolls away from that in a current of all these other meanings below it in currents you can barely catch. It causes all these thoughts to break up and away from one thing you might read, cause all these interesting connections. And because of that splitting nature I found the best way to read something like this is to have one eye on the page and the other on the world around you. For the mind HAS to be loose enough, mouldable enough, for the fractals to make sense and spiral to different connections. I found if I tried to concentrate too hard it didn’t make sense. But the moment I stepped back a world of meaning was waiting there and I truly enjoyed delving into it.
Much commentary on the paradox of progressing in the human race that advances us and yet destroys at once in the same moment. Extremely true, and extremely sad. So much potential, so much possibility but so much pain too. Loved the insight.
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