Creed of the Loosed Arrow in Flight

In an age where speed eclipses substance and abstraction replaces action, The Creed of the Loosed Arrow in Flight offers something utterly different: a philosophy forged not in theory, but in practice-drawn from the quiet storm of tension, presence, and release known only to those who live close to the bone.

Blending poetic insight with rigorous thought, Martin Smallridge presents a living, breathing framework of embodied knowing, ethical clarity, and philosophical defiance. This is not a metaphor. The bow is not a symbol. The arrow is not an idea. This is a systemless system-rooted in the body, shaped by consequence, and resistant to the disembodied seductions of the digital sublime.

Written for those who work with their hands, their hearts, and their full attention-archers, artists, rebels, teachers, poets, and all who refuse to be reduced-this book offers a powerful alternative to abstraction and passivity. It speaks to the future with the gravity of old truths: that knowing without doing is hollow, that ethics must be borne, not worn, and that freedom begins with the willingness to stand still, to draw fully, and to release without certainty.

For readers of Bayo Akomolafe, David Abram, or Byung-Chul Han. For those who seek not escape from the world, but a fiercer, truer way of being within it.