Here is a fruitful review of what is happening now.
Please watch the whole presentation ... it is bout 20 minutes or so.
Here is the link to a very useful website and YouTube channel.
Imaginary Characters in Your Head?
It was Anne Tyler who said, "You would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer, once you get to know them."
I was struck by the word companionship. Com- means "with." Pan- means "bread" or "meal." So companionship carries the image of eating bread or a meal with someone. This is a rather delicious image: to break bread with imaginary figures.
Paco and I certainly know the feeling Anne Tyler is describing.
Do you?
Comments welcomed!
The war on truth and the war on imagination and the war on action by the corporate-governmental-academic establishment is wrenchingly documented in the documentary, "The Intenet's Own Boy," the story about the life and contributions and the suicide of Aaron Swartz. Watch it all the way through. You are likely to be left with the feeling, what can I do? Let's talk about it.
Here is the link:
Analyst in training, Mackenzie Amara, explores a dream-based approach to the alienness of psychedelic trips.
Here's the link:
Hi all,
Posts and comments are increasing at fexandcoo.website on the relation between fictional narrative and the psyche
prompted by the novel Fex & Coo by Russ Lockhart and Paco Mitchell. Join in!
Paco's essays, "The Coming Storm" and "The Flamenco Letra" are now available at the website paraceleteofcaborca.com
This site is now available for registration.
A question I get asked a lot is what am I reading now and what articles have impacted me.
I'm currently enjoying Stephen King's new novel, The Insitute. I'll have some comments on this soon.
I've been a follower of Camille Paglia for many years and was quite taken with an article entitled
"Camille Paglia declares cinema done." Read it here: Camille Paglia declares cinema done | electric ghost
Umair Haque is a writer I follow. He is not a mincer. A recent essay: "We're Losing the Battle for the Future."
You can read it here: We’re Losing the Battle for the Future | by umair haque | Jul, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co (eand.co)
Watch for the first edition of the Owl & Heron Newsletter.
It would be helpful to me if you did the following:
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I just want to make sure everything is working propery.
Have a good weekend!
Russ
As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it. But how does this happen before they have experienced sight?
A new Yale study suggests that, in a sense, mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are even born.
Link for full description: Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they're entering -- ScienceDaily
PSYCHOACTIVE
Dictionaries will tell us that “psychoactive” refers to the effects on the mind of drugs. The effects typically mentioned are changes in the nervous system which alter perception, mood, consciousness, cognition or behavior. The drugs indicated are psychoactive drugs, psychopharmaceutical drugs, and psychotropic drugs. The word came into use in the 1940s and has reached its maximal use in the latest analysis (Google, 2019).
I use the word differently. By psychoactive I mean the unexpected, autonomous activation of the other at odd angles to one’s conscious intentions. The activation may manifest in dreams, visions, synchronicities, strange and inchoate body sensations, visual or auditory perceptions, feelings and thoughts.
My use of other here is meant in place of the general use of the word unconscious. The word other carries a sense of phenomenological animation. I further characterize it as the presentational psyche because these experiences are “presented” to ego consciousness. I have further characterized this as involving the invitational psyche because these experiences have a sense of inviting the participation of the conscious ego in further acts of imagination and creativity.
More on this post at fexandcoo.website where the relationship between psychoactive and narrative is a key question.
You may find my essay, “Appassionato for the Imagination,” to be useful. See Russell A, Lockhart. Appassionato for the Imagination. In Murry Stein and Thomas Arzt (Eds.) Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for the Soul under Postmodern Conditions, Asheville: Chiron Publications, 2017.
I've finally decided. This is my choice for the best performance and conducting of Ravel's Bolero, with Sergiu Celubidache conducting the Munich Philharmonic orchestra. Celubidache was a master of manifesting restraint as a way to build tension, a master at the restrained release of restraint, and a master of the total release of all restraint. It is altogether incredible.
ON MARKET STREET
I walked Market Street today
you know that place
junk stores and some say junk people
where I tried on that Greek fisherman's
cap authentic at 10.99
my head was too big my head was too big
my head is too big became a chorus right there
on Market Street but no one heard
except this guy who shot out of that store
like an unguided missile whose any target
will do meant me and this junked man
he crashed into me and when I said sorry
like mama taught me to do in all special
circumstances he only said in a commander's
voice supreme at ease and in the very next breath
was shocked into recognition of who was soldier
and who was commander exactly and that junked
man commander saluted my head too big
and shouted with respect in-boned yes sir yes sir
and I knew that from analyst to commander on
Market Street is not an easy promotion
yet I took his gift of rank and its cap just right
when I heard him shout at ease and saw him
salute and yes sir yes sir even to that girl
with one arm that girl not even bumped
into became a commander too on
Market Street today
when girls are commanders who will be nurses
who will be nurses on Market Street
when that man that mad man
has made commanders of us all
it will be yes it will be madness
yes madness itself yes because
on Market Street where I walked
today is where madness is
psyche's only nurse.
Lockhart, Russell. Psyche Speaks: A Jungian Approach to Self and World. The Lockhart Press. Kindle Edition.
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