Recommend a small book by Joseph Campbell, "An Open Life" - Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms - Copyright 1989
Enjoyed the excerpted from Myths To Live By (1970). Have explored many Shaman books, but gave them up on my journey west last year. Heuristic experience and intuition are guiding me now. Great job Crow...Kman, editor, DIGILEAK News Not Noise, Sooke, BC
Now that's timely. I'm preparing (mainly in my head at the moment) an article about the Orphics, in lieu of my uncovering an old essay I wrote when was studying philosophy at university, which was about Marcuse's vociferous critique of Freud, where he took the view that the likes of Eros and Narcissus were a kind of cure for and liberation from the repressive sickness that is modern 'civilisation' - that modern civilisation is in fact not civilised. As evidenced by the likes of Freud telling patients 'it's their fault' instead of the world's fault. The way modern 'psychiatry' (which does go back to Freud) is an attempt to make people well-adjusted to a sick society. That which is unnatural is uncivilised, in other words.
The Orphic mysteries (initiation) is just as described in your article - a journey into the Underworld (see Orpheus and Eurydike).
Like I said, timely (especially as this article of yours has been sitting in my to-do folder for weeks now). There are clearly fates at work. I've known this for quite some time now, as it happens. Perhaps I should be grateful for the terrors of my childhood...
Spectacular writing. Thank you!
Inspiring!
Greetings Crow: Wonder if you were able to score a copy of "Cupids Poisoned Arrow" by Marnia Robinson? If not, you can get a PDF copy at DIGILEAK Archives at: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZDUrS0ZcGtqaoLtksYMGeoy7fWQ9mqSOIck cheers, Kman
Recommend a small book by Joseph Campbell, "An Open Life" - Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms - Copyright 1989
Enjoyed the excerpted from Myths To Live By (1970). Have explored many Shaman books, but gave them up on my journey west last year. Heuristic experience and intuition are guiding me now. Great job Crow...Kman, editor, DIGILEAK News Not Noise, Sooke, BC
Now that's timely. I'm preparing (mainly in my head at the moment) an article about the Orphics, in lieu of my uncovering an old essay I wrote when was studying philosophy at university, which was about Marcuse's vociferous critique of Freud, where he took the view that the likes of Eros and Narcissus were a kind of cure for and liberation from the repressive sickness that is modern 'civilisation' - that modern civilisation is in fact not civilised. As evidenced by the likes of Freud telling patients 'it's their fault' instead of the world's fault. The way modern 'psychiatry' (which does go back to Freud) is an attempt to make people well-adjusted to a sick society. That which is unnatural is uncivilised, in other words.
The Orphic mysteries (initiation) is just as described in your article - a journey into the Underworld (see Orpheus and Eurydike).
Like I said, timely (especially as this article of yours has been sitting in my to-do folder for weeks now). There are clearly fates at work. I've known this for quite some time now, as it happens. Perhaps I should be grateful for the terrors of my childhood...