Simon Mattacks
speaker
2,981 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Sep
Simon Mattacks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the introduction to his book, he immediately states two of the essential questions at the heart of the search for the Grail.
First, what is the Grail?
And second, what is it for?
Looking back at the long journey of the Grail through the years, the answer comes into focus.
Simply, the Grail legend was a shapeshifter that suited many people of many cultures for a great variety of reasons.
In Barber's words, the grail owes its existence to the shadowy borderland between imagination and belief.
And of course, nobody understands this better than our hero, Indiana Jones.
After selecting the correct grail, he still ends up empty-handed.
The knight warns him that he cannot remove the grail from its hiding place.
His prediction is true.
In the end, the grail is trapped in the cave, plunging even farther than before, down into a crevasse in the earth.
Perhaps, as Baba suggests,
Whatever shape or form we may attribute to it, the Holy Grail offers us in imagination the possibility of perfection.
Reflecting on his words, one has to realize that if we ever find it, that hope will expire.
And so the quest for the Holy Grail will be never ending.
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