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Essays

Longer-form prose. The Way of the Fool is a six-part series on the inwardness of becoming; the others stand alone.

The Way of the Fool

Part

About the Boy – Part I

Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice. Essay series Part

Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III

Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can. Essay series Part

A Medley of Fools Heralds the Journey Within the Journey – Part IV

Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald. Essay series Part

A Wondrous Fellow Appears Out of the Darkness – Part II

Part II of The Way of the Fool: the Fool appears as a guide out of the darkness, and what it means to recognise oneself among those who belong to him. Essay series Part

Pathways through the Mandelbrot Set – Part VI

Part VI of The Way of the Fool (forthcoming): the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry as a map of the Fool's recursive journey through self and world. Essay series Part

The Quality of the Fool – Part V

Part V of The Way of the Fool: the Fool not as a philosophy but as a quality of consciousness — a way of meeting life rather than a doctrine to hold. Essay series

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