Two Headed Arrow

by David Chaim Smith

“Two Headed Arrow” offers commentary on a text of nine verses written in what is called a twilight language, which is a style of esoteric poetics dwelling in the elusive territory between logical analysis and what conventional linguistics is incapable of communicating. Immersion within this work is an invitation into a mode of contemplative inquiry that is neither religious nor secular, which mainstream culture has no way to label or define. If these words and images can be used as working tools for this exploration, a whole way of life becomes possible for the right individual.

116 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication September 2, 2026

About the author

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books. He currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.