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Interested in Illuminationism; the Sufi Way; Western tradition; Renaissance; Romanticism; Idealism; Panpsychism; Imagination; contemporary depth psychology; resistance; etc. Author of mystical adventure and soft scifi. Blog: mystical-faction.blogspot.com
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“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.

“Things are worse than bad. They're crazy.”
Image: Gardening / Victor Gilbert (1847–1933) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields –
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been ...

~ Emily Dickinson.
The Work
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“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke.

Image: The Queen of Hearts playing card.
3/3 ... Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Image: Denge (“Balance”) / star5112 / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

#MaryOliver #Poetry #Hesitation #Joy
2/3 ... is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case ...
“Don’t Hesitate”
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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this ... 1/3
Like It or Lump It
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“If you think all soup has lumps in it you will fail to recognise soup without them.”

~ Idries Shah, The Commanding Self.

Image: Vegetable soup 3 / Tiia Monto / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meet half way: Gironde department is in southwestern France?
Image: Autumn colour (10311552835) / Ian Kirk from Broadstone, Dorset, UK / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY 2.0.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

~ John Keats, “To Autumn”.
Image: Hikers enjoy a hike on a wild trail / Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
Seekers After Truth
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“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”

~ Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment.
An excellent article. Thank you kindly, Jim.
Reposted by Esowteric
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/bergson...
The creation of the human species is, like any, a halt on the road of evolution, a check of the current of consciousness by the resistance of matter; but the same creative energy can be continued, beyond what nature “ordained” for our species
Bergson and Intuitive Knowledge
Alan Shepherd examines Bergson’s view of intuition as a key to metaphysical knowledge. Unlike Kant, Bergson believes we can directly access reality through our experience of time, or “duration.” Intui...
www.thephilosopher1923.org
Source: Edward Edinger, The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology.

Image: Aeneas in the Underworld / Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
“[T]he purpose of the descent into the Underworld is to gain something that is missing in the upper world, some piece of information, some wisdom. This is symbolized at times by a jewel or other object of value ...”

~ Edward Edinger, The Eternal Drama.
Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
Source: Keiron Le Grice, The Archetypal Cosmos: Rediscovering the God in Myth, Science and Astrology.

Image: Galaxy in algeria by yacine / Eni69 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
“With the rise of our technological consumer society, collectively we have lost a sense of the sacred purpose & the encompassing spiritual context of life. We have lost the awareness that human lives are rooted in a deeper reality ...”

~ Keiron Le Grice, The Archetypal Cosmos.