Expreciatus

What is 'Expreciatus'? Well, it is a philosophy based on some of the (now) more obscure of ideas and beliefs of the great minds of the past, such as Jung, Kierkegaard, Nietsche and Manson. The name itself is an amalgam of various modern concepts, all giving a clue to the deeper workings of the mind and soul - accretion, excretion, appreciation and expression, to name but a few and the most obvious. The term 'Expreciate' from which the philosophy of 'Expreciatus' derives was first coined by Adam D Maynard, in his much sought after book 'Expreciating - The Art Of Giving, Taking And Being Whole', first published in 1972 (sadly now well out of print, although the Australian branch of the Societus Expreciatus is trying to gain the publishing rights in order to get this essential text back into print for the greater good of humanity).

In order to understand the fullness, the wholeness of life, we must first understand those things that make us what we are. In order to do that we must more fully understand our very essence, we must appreciate, express, excrete, accrete those experiences, those sensations that define our world. If we can reach out to them, touch them, feel them warming our bodies, our souls, divine their very nature, then we at least have some hope of achieving that oneness that will bring us within reach of the world and the universe around us. We must 'expreciate'. Without this skill we are essentially alone, lost in a sea of dead souls, adrift with only our fellow human flotsam and jetsam for company. Life is about so much more. As Strindberg wrote, 'death is our only constant, our only friend. We must reach beyond, grasp those deeper truths, the yin and yang of real life'.

'Do not go gentle in that good night' wrote Dylan Thomas - how right he was. Humans are not meant to be solitary creatures, cut off from the universal soul, but until we can truly learn to 'expreciate', then that is all we have; loneliness and a desperate sense of longing for our fellow men and women, feelings of the most profound loss and horror. And the horror is one of our making, our own inability to maintain contact with that sense of being and universality. If you look back as far as the Isis Cult of Roman times, the knowledge was there, the sense of the life-journey, the all-encompassing voyage towards fullness of soul. In order to feel, to truly love, to be, we must 'expreciate'. Without this, we are nothing. Nothing but stardust.