Blinding of Homer by Karina Kulyk (Original Painting)

The moment of revelation for every prophet, poet, and writer of all times and peoples is a deafening and blinding command from above: “Write.” The symbolism of Homer’s blindness—physical disability opens the way to super-vision and elevation above ordinary things—is often distracted by the cloister of vision, which only allows people to see the surface and form limited judgments about the universe and the meaning of existence. To possess a divine gift, one must sacrifice the values ​​of the common man. In the night and solitude, a muse, goddess or angelic messenger of God inflicts pain on the chosen one and what happens seems cruel, but it is precisely the pain of parting with the usual entertainment, idle talk, understandable chatter, gossip and the limitations of cattle that breaks the boundaries of the ordinary, forces one to distract oneself from everyday life and sleep, to see clearly, gouging out one’s eyes in anger, because they are tired of contemplating the stupidity of humanity, existing in a sleepy dementia, busy absorbing one thing and throwing out another.