Dr Todd William Dearing

Founder and Principal Writer at Wizardry Sphere. PhD in English. Writing open-ended perspectives that evoke our deeper human faculties and creative wisdom.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

I've created a new Substack site: https://t.co/oTyVOtTYg0

Wizardry Sphere explores what it means to develop wisdom in the present and emerging world. We draw creatively from both ancient and modern sources.

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New article on solar symbolism in bronze age Denmark.

https://t.co/0PUZNGBG1L

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

My endeavour to articulate wisdom through Wizardry Sphere is exploratory. All writing is. I do not know where it will lead, or what exactly I will find, though I know enough to travel it well.

https://t.co/oTyVOtTYg0

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Writing is thinking on paper or a screen. It is exploratory, investigative, inventive. Take that away and replace it with a machine that produces all the answers, and you have lost your ability to discover, to imagine, to create.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

We have lost poetry,
we have lost destiny,
we have lost depth, natural wholeness, and dignity;
we have lost beauty, wit and whimsy;
we have lost language, myth and history
from the public square.

Where are the wise mavericks of the dawn?
Where are the epic adventurers? The heroes? The powerful noble kings, who will return our world to wholeness, natural legendary wholeness, so that our descendents will look back to us with awe, inspiration, and respect?

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Vision is destination.
Action is destiny.

"No one can build for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone." – Friedrich Nietzsche

#Wisdom #SelfMastery #Destiny

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Have we lost the capacity to consciously recognise symbols? It seems so many only view the things symbols are embodied in.

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Northern cultures have their own meditative traditions.

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Long before churches stood across Scandinavia, there were people who sought answers in a very different way.

They walked away from the firelight.

Away from the hall.

Away from family, friends, and the noise of daily life.

Then they sat alone in the darkness.

The Old Norse called it útiseta - “sitting out.”

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Without consciousness, there is no experiencer of existence. Awareness as the foundation of existence grants infinite scope for its awakening.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

@pmarca The error here seems to be confusing awareness with ego.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

@pmarca Self-oblivion will not end well for humanity.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Loquilian, the Alacritous Fox is my novel about wizards.

"Sometimes our destiny is more than we are able to withstand. Yet afterwards, we are more than we thought ourselves to be."

Buy it at https://t.co/hLNR3eBLIi

Or via Lulu if outside AU, US, UK: https://t.co/84i4BXfwq1

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Are we humans anything more than a collective dream, made real by the shared limits of our imaginations and abilities?

The real world arises from the common ground of every being’s and every thing’s subjectivity, yet only individual uniqueness shapes.

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep."
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

To strive is to thrive. But when you arrive, then you need a new jive.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

@CLT_Exam The answers must be lived, not merely spoken.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

We live in a world where the topic of wisdom is rarely discussed.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Perhaps more than ever before in human history, humanity is less aware of the stars. Our evenings are spent looking at glowing square boxes under roofs and artificial lights.

Space is deep, old, and vast—while we live in fleeting moments. Our common heart aches for knowing ourself as one people among an infinite unknown.

[Dr Todd William Dearing @WizardrySphere]

Freedom grows from self-discipline and wise action.