“The Wound of Christ” (Patreon)

The wound is not merely a wound. It is an opening—the place through which the invisible enters the flesh. Within it, pain and desire, blood and birth, death and revelation become indistinguishable. As in Videodrome, to open oneself is to consent to an irreversible transformation: to allow something foreign to enter the body and turn it into a threshold.

Perhaps this is why Christ’s side wound acquired such an intimate, almost bodily dimension for certain mystics. It was not merely the mark left by the spear, but a fissure opening onto the divine—a cleft through which the soul might enter, find refuge, and lose itself.