THE DAIMON
โIt would take me years to realize that what, in the first half of life, comes across to us as the benign, observing Other, in the second half begins to forcefully impose its own agenda on a Western mind. In both cases, we are talking about the same impersonal force within; the only difference is that, in the first half of life, its agenda happens to line up with oursโbecause it knows that we must first carve out a space in the world for ourselves, if we are to be useful and effective instruments of its expression later onโwhile in the second half it doesnโt. At all times, however, this impersonal force within is always only following its own agenda. To highlight the distinctly impersonal character of its behavior in the second half of life, I shall henceforth call this force the Daimonโ
BERNARDO KASTRUP
The Daimon and the Soul of the West (2025)
Art: The Silent Voice, 1898, by Gerald Moira