The Marriage of Vibe and Concept

Consciousness, Art, Mysticism, and Politics from Kabbalah to Hegel

I. The Marriage of Concept and Vibe

One of the core teachings of mystical traditions is that good and bad are interdependent, sometimes to the point of being “flesh of one flesh.” Evil isn’t the privation of good as classical Christian theologians, following Plato, argue, but part and parcel of it. William Blake captures the sentiment when he writes of t…