tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10138655129988466122024-03-13T14:59:19.159-04:00A Music Long Before MeaningTom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013865512998846612.post-46360970318930116832018-11-28T16:17:00.002-05:002018-11-28T16:17:31.533-05:00Online Introduction to Henry Corbin - Jan-Feb 2019<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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Mohammed Rustom and Soroosh Shahriari</div>
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Tom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013865512998846612.post-66810591752715822832018-07-30T21:05:00.001-04:002018-07-30T21:05:21.573-04:00Online Short Course in Archetypal Psychology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Poetic Basis of Mind: An Introduction to Archetypal Psychology</div>
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Note: Tom Cheetham will teach this class remotely. Technology will allow for discussion between Dr. Cheetham and his students.<br />
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Archetypal psychology is closely associated with the work of James Hillman. Departing from foundations in Freudian and Jungian thought, it moves in a different air: more Mediterranean, polytheistic, and exhibiting conscious parallels with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies in its dissolution of literalisms and essentialisms. It provides a psychology of soul where anima is located primarily in the world and secondarily in the human person. It is more than a psychology and functions as a form of life for which metaphor and imagination are primary constituents of the world and the poetic basis of mind and nature is fundamental.<br />
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Here is a passage from Henry Corbin; “Le paradoxe du monothèisme,” in <i>Le Paradoxe du Monothèisme. Paris: Ed. de l'Herne (Le Livre de Poche), 1981, 69-70.</i><br />
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This pre-eminence of visionary clairvoyance may even render us clairvoyant regarding a prophetic symbol that André Neher in his book entitled <i>The Exile of the Word [1] </i>urges us to understand in an entirely different manner: before the two statues on the southern façade of the Strasburg Cathedral, he writes, more than one Christian has been struck by the fascinating beauty of the Synagoga, of this surprisingly young woman: a band over her eyes prevents her from seeing, and she has most certainly heard nothing and hears nothing, as she pursues a dream whose silence speaks volumes more than the eloquent expression of the Ecclesia. The band over the young woman's eyes alerts us that her vision is beyond vision. So emphatic is the certitude of this visionary clairvoyance that it made its presence felt to a German poet, a Christian and theologian of our times. André Neher reports his testimony. The poet Albrecht Goes believed that in a metaphysical dimension the Synagoga was not only more beautiful but also more truthful than the exoteric Ecclesia. Which prompts him to declare: Sie ist's, die sieht :"It is She who sees."<br />
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[1] André Neher, <i>L’Exile de la Parole, </i>Paris, Le Seuil, 1970, p. 50.<br />
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I never found a place to put this little passage. So here it is. Along with the illustrations that I sought out some years ago. Synagoga and Ecclesia from Strasbourg...<br />
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A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo, to create ex nihilo. In order to make room for one’s own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we could not mentally remove ourselves from where we physically are located and imagine that things might as well be different from what they actually are. In other words, the deliberate denial of factual truth — the ability to lie — and the capacity to change facts — the ability to act — are interconnected; they owe their existence to the same source: imagination. It is by no means a matter of course that we can say, “The sun shines,” when it actually is raining (the consequence of certain brain injuries is the loss of this capacity); rather, it indicates that while we are well equipped for the world, sensually as well as mentally, we are not fitted or embedded into it as one of its inalienable parts. We are free to change the world and to start something new in it. Without the mental freedom to deny or affirm existence, to say “yes” or “no” — not just to statements or propositions in order to express agreement or disagreement, but to things as they are given, beyond agreement or disagreement, to our organs of perception and cognition — no action would be possible; and action is of course the very stuff politics are made of.<br />
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I've known about Richard Evans Schultes for a very long time. My wife heard him lecture in 1973. And quite a while ago I read something by his student Wade Davis. But since Pollan's new book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225">How to Change Your Mind</a></i> came out I've revisited some of those long ago interests. I've just read <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Amazon-Pioneering-Expeditions-Schultes/dp/1608876543/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532351445&sr=1-1&keywords=the+lost+amazon">The Lost Amazon</a> (2nd edition) </i>by Wade Davis which is a beautifully illustrated and fairly short version of his longer book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-River-Wade-Davis/dp/0684834960/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0684834960&pd_rd_r=d37fe04a-8e79-11e8-bc22-5d0e7f4bb9cf&pd_rd_w=IconP&pd_rd_wg=TSD70&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2610440344683357453&pf_rd_r=FQ2S8TVF0VHYATXGW2GR&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=FQ2S8TVF0VHYATXGW2GR">One River</a>. </i>Don't miss these books! Schultes was the original Indiana Jones - and his biography is jaw-dropping. I can't recommend either of these enough. And then we discover the The Amazon Conservation Team has a website with an interactive map devoted to Schultes' travels: <a href="http://amazonteam.org/maps/schultes-en/">The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes</a> (it may take a while to load - don't give up).<br />
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I've been to the Rothko Chapel. I'd spent many hours at the Twombly Gallery before I went and I wasn't impressed. I usually am moved by Rothko. I hated the building and was disturbed by the number of people who were there - maybe 25 or so. I went back to the Twombly... But Shine's essay ensures that next time I am in Houston I will revisit the Chapel, and give it the respect it is due. Still, I go to Houston for the Twombly, which requires an entirely different sensibility.<br />
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In a marvelous bit of synchronicity I have just found that Souriau has been translated into English. Corbin devotes a long and crucially important footnote to his work in <i>Creative Imagination. </i>This review in the LARB is fascinating.<br />
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I met Albert Glover the other day and we talked about the world and Charles Olson and poetry. I told him I would do my small part in helping to make known the marvelous Curriculum of the Soul volumes that he and Jack Clarke labored on for decades. The 2 volume set is a beautiful thing to behold and contains the work of some of the finest poets of our time. I am working on a website about Olson's idea, the project and the books. Take a look <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/notesonacurriculumofsoul">HERE</a>. Some of the links there:<br />
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I'm not sure I know anyone who would "like" these poems. I find them irresistible. Transformative. Liberating. Bizarre, certainly. Disturbing, funny, grotesque. But they come from a place I recognize and it's awfully nice to find that someone else has been there too. Let the menacing guinea pigs into your life. They could change you.</div>
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<br />Tom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013865512998846612.post-66335782413670680222017-07-26T14:01:00.003-04:002017-08-04T11:20:03.187-04:00Aase Berg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://thefanzine.com/to-hack-to-become-immune-an-interview-with-aase-berg/">TO HACK, TO BECOME IMMUNE: AN INTERVIEW WITH AASE BERG</a></div>
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[To celebrate the recent release of Hackers (Black Ocean, 2017), Paul Cunningham and Aase Berg met up somewhere in a dark, twisted matrix to talk horses, parasites, translation, revolution, and, of course, hacking. Introduction by poet Rachel Zavecz.]<br />
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I am smitten. Completely dumbstruck. I don't even remember how I found out about Aase Berg but it was some online source that I clicked on. I don't remember quite why I bought <i>Remainland </i>but I did and I am only part way through it. So I should not be saying this - but these poems are... I guess maybe they are what I have been looking for for a long long time. Time will tell, but I don't feel like this very often. Thanks largely to Johannes Goransson (who was a student of Jed Rasula!) I don't have to learn Swedish - at least not yet.<br />
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Here is a list of some sources - for me as much as for readers:<br />
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<a href="http://www.doubleroomjournal.com/issue_four/Aase_Berg.html">Response & Bio</a>: Double Room - Spring/Summer 2004<br />
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<a href="http://thehairsplitter.com/post/92054115182/pressures-of-luminosity-aase-bergs-dark-matter">PRESSURES OF LUMINOSITY: AASE BERG’S DARK MATTER AND HDR PHOTOGRAPHY</a> by Ryo Yamaguchi, July 17, 2014<br />
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The Swedish edition of Mörk Materia contained collages by Tom Benson. Three of them are shown <a href="http://actionyes.org/issue1/berg/berg1.htm">here</a>. This is the one for "Mare Imbrium":<br />
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Olson, Creeley, Duncan.</div>
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A very fine overview of Black Mountain College.</div>
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Tom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013865512998846612.post-33246722921674042172016-01-04T10:58:00.003-05:002016-01-07T20:56:25.229-05:00Cy Twombly - A New Website<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm happy to announce a new website, currently under construction, </div>
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Please visit and see how it's coming along in the next weeks and months:</div>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cytwomblyproject/home">Panorama - The World of Cy Twombly</a></div>
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