Henri Bortoft's review of King Abba has been posted on a Facebook page dedicated to Bortoft enthusiasts by Simon Robinson, who is a consultant and lecturer in chaos and complexity
theory, innovation, creativity and sustainability. He is a member of BCI
(Biomimicry for Creative Innovation) and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He is also editor of the web page http://transitionconsciousness.wordpress.com/about
For the post of the review, see:
www.facebook.com/HenriBortoft
Bortoft's ideas, his exposition of phenomenology and hermeneutics, and his interest in Goethe, were all fertile ground for my approach to the writing of King Abba. In particular, I was interested in creative ways of perception, the struggle against ossified mindset, and a direct path to knowledge through experiential and sensory involvement in what we observe. My original interest in this, of course, came from writing poetry which I see as a pure form of experience rendered beautiful. The haikus which accompany this blog, which I have called Homage to Water, all arise from this aesthetic principle. King Abba's aim is to help young people arrive at their own realisation that much of what they learn and inherit as knowledge has to be relearned through their own soul experience.
More on this to come.
CJM, December 9, 2012
