This passage, which was resonant with themes of ecstatic, extra-mental ascent, had been important to Augustine and Aquinas Newmann); and for Ficino, it also proved a touchstone, given that themes of ascent were dear to the Platonic tradition.
They were acrid and soul-punishing and, I guess, meant to toughen us for the Long Ascent to the Everest of mental breakdown, our private goal of spiritual rebirth.
The perpetrators were not jihadis looking for a swift ascent to heaven, but small-time criminals with a history of mental illness: sociopaths, if you will.
A Star is Born demonstrates it as a disease, hand-in-hand with mental illness, along with the cocktail of other damages Jackson sustained on his ascent to fame.
"I think the mental side of climbing is often overlooked," Alex Johnson, team climber with The North Face -- with many first-female ascents under her belt, tells The Huffington Post.
Her ascent has been startling.
What happened upon his ascent?
Theirs was a statelier ascent.
But his ascent went smoothly.
