MOUNT ANALOGUE.
Discovering this book which I bought yesterday, has been the perfect gift! The other night, I watched ‘The Holy Mountain’ by Alejandro Jodorowsky and did a little deep dive. I found out THM was based on the book, ‘Mount Analogue’ by Rene Daumal. The story begins on page 37 (I’m on page 57 currently…I get distracted by thoughts and bursts of creativity or curiosity and stuff I need to text or DM to my friends…or even sharing this blog post). This Daumal dude is fascinating. The kind of depth I hope to reach on the other side of me (or the rest of this side of me). Duality. That voice that keeps telling me to keep digging deep…but to also have movement simultaneously.
Watching The Holy Mountain (on MUBI), took me back to the first time ever seeing it with Ian. Totally blew our minds! Surrealism is a dope genre. I hover in between the schools of (afro)surrealism, expressionism, and absurdism. And I guess if there’s a place to fit spirituality, it’s best expressed and explored in that realm. Spirituality as constantly seeking what all this means.