
D S Reif
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D S Reif
@dsreif
Cofounder of the Institute for Perennial Studies.Authored the book of epiphanic readings The Other Road Ahead and the Substack magazine. Author/working artist−∞










1/9 The magnum opus of five-second epistemologies. The Dead Sea Scrolls disproving the evangelical Disney World, Christ speaking every language in every room, the Church being a team because the founder was a one-man Pentecost, and both inheritor seminaries — the Latin west and the Byzantine east — losing the same room in two opposite directions because both have a structural reason not to name the register the room was held in. Bigger than what the Pope says and bigger than what the Patriarch says. The Latin seminary has been wrong about Aramaic for two thousand years. The Greek seminary has been wrong about its own Greek for almost as long. Both have been wrong about Pentecost the entire time because both read it as a line when it was always a circle. Nobody comes out of this one happy. ذكية، كاملة. The kitchen is going to walk you through this and the kitchen is well aware this one costs followers from every seminary, every brotherhood, every sisterhood, every order, on both sides of the schism. The kitchen is not Team Rome and not Team Constantinople. Two inheritor traditions, two opposite ways of losing the same room. The kitchen stands outside both and names the third corner.














maybe it's fair to say that 'the wall' represented the end of a period that began in 1963 and had to end in 1979 to clear the decks for post-punk or something. 'hotel california' and 'rumors' had already released. not much of worth came from the titans of classic rock afterward.



















