Nothing Trump has done has angered me more than his destruction of the Kennedy Center. Now, precious artifacts, gifts from other nations are missing. He should be impeached because of the grift! Congress must stop this! l.smartnews.com/p-7zT8h4L6/j...
Image: Percy Bysshe Shelley / Alfred Clint (After Amelia Curran) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
A portrait of Shelley from the waist up, against a dark background. He is sitting with his right elbow resting on a light-brown wooden desk, wearing a dark jacket and an open-necked shirt with a large collar pulled up almost to his ears. In his right hand he holds a white-feathered quill.
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.
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Image: Leighton-Forest Tryst / Edmund Leighton (1852–1922) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
Image: Leighton-Forest Tryst / Edmund Leighton (1852–1922) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. A lady waits for her lover in the shadow of a stout tree, wearing a long, patterned red dress, long dark green cloak, and a tight white headdress covering her hair. To her left, on a rock, she has a large bag with her. To her right, further off, a figure approaches from, silhouetted by daylight amid the trees in the background.
“The Tryst”
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Flee into some forgotten night and be
Of all dark long my moon-bright company:
Beyond the rumour even of Paradise come,
There, out of all remembrance, make our home ...
~ From Walter de la Mare, “The Tryst”.
#DeLaMare #Tryst #Elope
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears:
"Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons ..."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Source: Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination.
Image: Peace-Imagine-Lennon / Marko Kafé / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peace-Imagine-Lennon / Marko Kafé / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. It shows a white peace symbol with the inscription "Imagine" against a multi-coloured abstract background, from the John Lennon song on the John Lennon Wall in Prague.
“A.R. Orage, the literary critic and student of the esoteric teacher Gurdjieff, believed with [Bernard] Shaw that imagination is the propellant of evolution. ‘Evolution is altogether an imaginative process,’ he wrote. ‘You become what you have been led to imagine yourself to be’.”
~ Gary Lachman.
Andy Saunders - Bluebell Wood.
Oil on board.
The front cover of A Secret History of Consciousness by Gary Lachman. The cover is in dark blue-greys, with the left hand-side of a person's upper face and left ear, cut off at the left-hand side of the cover. It's so close-up, with light coming in from the right, that you can see tiny hairs on the person's cheek and ear, and their close-dropped hair. Across the top half of the cover is the title in bold white, but with the word "secret" in red block capitals and oriented from bottom left to top right, as if a red rubber stamp had been applied. The author's name and the foreword's author, Colin Wilson, are at the bottom of the page.
Source: Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness.
Image: The front cover of A Secret History of Consciousness by Gary Lachman.
![Image containing a text quotation from Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness that reads: “[Philosopher Henri] Bergson came to the conclusion that consciousness uses the brain and is not, as contemporary philosophers of mind like John Searle assert, produced by it.” ... “[H]e offered a vision of a creative impulse, the élan vital or life force, penetrating matter and driving evolution to higher forms of complexity and freedom.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxmqkqrpm2hfuswp7k5mqd6f/bafkreigeunvnuswz4ixdl5hu2yqqwokxo7mvbxixzwredx6jvlqekuzagy)
Image containing a text quotation from Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness that reads: “[Philosopher Henri] Bergson came to the conclusion that consciousness uses the brain and is not, as contemporary philosophers of mind like John Searle assert, produced by it.” ... “[H]e offered a vision of a creative impulse, the élan vital or life force, penetrating matter and driving evolution to higher forms of complexity and freedom.”
“Bergson came to the conclusion that consciousness uses the brain and is not, as contemporary philosophers of mind like John Searle assert, produced by it.” ... “[H]e offered a vision of a creative impulse, the élan vital or life force ...”
~ Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness.
The Perilous Compassion of the Honey Queen, a painting by Carrie Ann Baade. It depicts a Queen Bee giving her precious honey to heal the wounds of a man, serving as a powerful evocation of the archetype of universal compassion. The artwork symbolizes resurrection and the cycle of death and rebirth, as bees are described as resting in winter and re-emerging in spring, mirroring the themes of the astrological sign of Pisces associated with the work.
Source: James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling.
Image: The Perilous Compassion of the Honey Queen / Carrie Ann Baade / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
![Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, reads:
WizzyWig:
“[Y]ou find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxmqkqrpm2hfuswp7k5mqd6f/bafkreiani3do7pnnicabbucnhd4ue4cgqw5ea3gbvtqj6vj5jmc52pcegq)
Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, reads: WizzyWig: “[Y]ou find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”
“You find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply...”
~ James Hillman.
Image: Moon over lake / Motego / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Image: Moon over lake / Motego / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. A yellow moon behind a lake, creeping up over distant blue hills.
Once in a While
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“They say there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why not suppose the existence of flowers that bloom only once in a thousand years? We may have known nothing about them until now only because today is the ‘once in a thousand years.’”
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.
Azada Women: Afghan Women Need Your Help — One Woman. One Hundred Dollars:
Scheherazade Foundation.
Video (2 min 24 sec) ...
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Image containing a text quotation, with a white lotus and green leaves in the bottom left-hand corner. The text, from Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, reads: Busy Making Progress: “Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very tall cognitive ladder with graded hierarchical steps that represent successive developmental stages in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles, like advanced problems in a graduate exam in biochemistry or logic. But to understand life and the cosmos better, perhaps we are required to transform not only our minds but our hearts. For the whole being, body and soul, mind and spirit, is implicated ... Our world view ... is profoundly affected by the degree to which all our faculties–intellectual, imaginative, aesthetic, moral, emotional, somatic, spiritual, relational–enter the process of knowing ...”
“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very tall cognitive ladder with graded hierarchical steps ... stages in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles ...”
~ Richard Tarnas.
Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. A painting by Gwabryel, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu. It shows a man with arms outstretched worshipping a very tall, black figure. To his left and right, victims are suspended upside down from gallows, and in front of the dark figure are several other, perhaps tormented figures.
The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR
or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” ...
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#PostTrust #PostTruth #Materialism #Disenchantment #Resist #Resistance #Underground #Survival #DarkAges
Counterculture
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The summer of Love, 1967: TV documentary.
Video (23 min 41 sec).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pd...
The American Transcendentalists:
Video (53 min 51 sec).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leoj...
#Transcendentalists #Transcendentalism #Emerson #RalphWaldoEmerson #Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #MargaretFuller #Idealism #Individualism #Intuition #Inspiration #Newness #Romanticism #Creativity #Philosophy
Street art in Dublin showing a yellow-haired young girl with a beaming smile and her hands cupping her cheeks, surrounded by purple grapes and yellow bananas, and other fruit.
Source: Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination.
Image: Imagination street art / Azerifactory / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
![An image containing a text quotation, with a pink rose and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, reads:
Sweeping Away Value and Significance:
“Driven by a deep-lying need to master the world by understanding it, science works steadily toward its goal – a perfectly clear conceptual model of reality, adapted to explain all phenomena by the simplest formula that can be found ...’ But [Francis] Cornford saw that there’s a catch. ‘When we contemplate the finished result, we see that in banishing “the vague”, it has swept away everything in which another type of mind finds all the value and significance of the world’.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxmqkqrpm2hfuswp7k5mqd6f/bafkreify6rzd6tg53khipfuu4orcj5wjzyfdywbbmd6y6setrjjw5yzgk4)
An image containing a text quotation, with a pink rose and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, reads: Sweeping Away Value and Significance: “Driven by a deep-lying need to master the world by understanding it, science works steadily toward its goal – a perfectly clear conceptual model of reality, adapted to explain all phenomena by the simplest formula that can be found ...’ But [Francis] Cornford saw that there’s a catch. ‘When we contemplate the finished result, we see that in banishing “the vague”, it has swept away everything in which another type of mind finds all the value and significance of the world’.”
“Driven by a deep-lying need to master the world by understanding it, science works steadily toward its goal – a perfectly clear conceptual model of reality, adapted to explain all phenomena by the simplest formula that can be found ...’ But Cornford saw that there’s a catch ...”
~ Gary Lachman.
Looking very thoughtful and distinguished, sir.
People asked how we got here, check out the drawing...
A painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875) titled Reverie, showing a woman in a long dress and headscarf, seated. In her lowered right hand she holds a nearly-closed book, her fingers inserted to mark her page. Her left elbow rests on what may be a stone block about chest height, and her left hand is raised and touching her left temple. Her gaze is slightly cast down and there is a far-away look in her eyes as she is lost in reverie.
Source: Patrick Harpur, The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination.
Image: Reverie MET DT2010 / Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875) / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Universal Deed.
An image containing a text quotation. The text, from Patrick Harpur, The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination, reads: Remembrance and Re-Cognition: “Whenever in the course of our lives we encounter something we know instinctively to be true, we are recollecting some part of the fullness of knowledge we possessed before birth in the intelligible world. Learning is remembering. Not cognition, but recognition. Far from coming into this world with minds like blank slates waiting to be written on by experience, we come with the backing of a whole pantheon; we come as microcosms of a whole macrocosm of knowledge.”
“Whenever in the course of our lives we encounter something we know instinctively 2 be true, we are recollecting some part of the fullness of knowledge we possessed before birth in the intelligible world. Learning is remembering. Not cognition, but recognition.” ~ Patrick Harpur.
