Everyday we dance in the Fire of Existence - sometimes in pain, sometimes for joy.  Our movements are driven by rhythms, sometimes natural, sometimes imposed.
The outer Fires of Existence can also support an inner Baptism of Spirit - we can change while we dance.  Inwardly the Source of Life can lend us additional
power to endure and to change and create, by the Grace of His Holy Breath.  Together in this way we make the Baptism of Spirit a Second Eucharist,
an Act of Grace to go with what we ourselves contribute to the Dance of Existence.  We do not Dance alone.  Our will can unite with another's.
We have Dance Partners, not only each other, but as we are ourselves Spirit, so the Breath of Spirit also moves with us.
Yet the great mystery is that we lead the Dance.  We lead, and the Spirit surrenders to that lead and follows.

SHAPES IN THE FIRE* 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Civilization burns.  War, hate, disease, mistrust, egotism, racism, greed, and just plain stupidity seem to be active everywhere, destroying social order
and reducing our hopes and dreams to ashes.   Yet, strange patterns form in the flames.  Weaving and dancing, human beings, and their communities,
live and die, move and change, grow and become.  Meaning hovers over the seeming chaos, and with a careful attention to the most basic elements it
becomes possible to discern the music that moves along side us - even the themes flowing out of the future .  On this site are the visions of a few
modern story tellers - students of the Mystery, sitting with us by their computer screens, the community campfire of our electronic age. 
Please enter  by the narrow gate, born in your own thinking, and listen to their tales.  There is much to be shared, and you too
will be invited to play a part.  Welcome, your host:  Joel A. Wendt [social philosopher ... and occasional fool]
Bookstore: Joel Wendt's Theory of Everything Emporium; Youtube Channel: the foolish philosopher

*fun video: to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire