The Face Game
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Here’s an interesting website I came across by accident:
2. The Face Game Defined.
This is the game which almost everyone plays (exceptions include infants, some retardates and schizophrenics, and Seers) in which the player pretends that he has a face where he has no face, that he is (at 0 inches) what he looks like (at, say 4 inches).
via The Face Game.
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While it may seem a strange approach to the topic of the human “essence” and our road to “finding” that essence as a liberation, it is certainly an old one and has many resonances (as the site mentions) to many ancient faiths of philosophy (especially someone like Plato) and theology. I thought I would share this quote from a favorite theologian of mine that has some distinct resonances with some of the logic behind the “face game” as well as distinct difference:
“Every finite being is groundless, without any original or ultimate essence in itself, a moment of unoccasioned fortuity, always awakening from nothing…an interior oblivion that is at the same time the space of what Augustine called memoria, the place where our souls open out upon the prospect of that wise and loving light that illuminates them from without. Of course, to speak of memory is to speak only of the creature’s “recollection” of being without foundation, of being always placed at a distance from what gives being, in the place of one who has been called and who can now only answer. Memory, thus conceived, is at one with a forgetfulness; as opposed to the Platonic anamnesis, which is an escape from the forgetfulness imposed upon the soul by the flesh, it is before all else the memory of the flesh, the memory that “dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Gen. 3:19
).” Taken from David Bentley Hart’s “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, p.250.