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malraux: not stung to austere ecstasy

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods. Maybe more not what he said, but how it was delivered…. …What made Andre Malraux’s La Metamorphose an especially haunting work is not originality in the usual sense. Some of Malraux’s seemingly … Continue reading →

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malraux: invasions of eternity by time

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

For whom the bell tolls. In the case of Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods, it was the Renaissance and Flemish art that took Giotto’s new world of pictorial fiction that placed the sacred scene within the world … Continue reading →

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malraux: art of pictorial fiction

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods…The dawning Renaissance bids farewell to Eternity, dragons, and sacred art-Venus descends from Olympus to become a naked woman… Later ages, particularly the Renaissance, praised Giotto for his illusionism, his still relatively primitive, so … Continue reading →

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humanization of art: suffering mothers

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux’s fascinating The Metamorphosis of the Gods continues to fascinate. How sacred art of the ancients becomes reborn and transformed as Christianity evolves. Idolatry? … The humanization of art. In the waning age of Faith, … Continue reading →

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The Gods in art-abandoning the kingdom of shadows

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux: The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to draw from ourselves images … Continue reading →

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time reversal: those elusive psychons

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dave

…Here then, is a “thing” almost devoid of the characteristics of matter, coming to us from a different universe and probably ( since it has no mass and is unaffected by gravity) moving through a different time continuum. Could mental … Continue reading →

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parapsycho-illogical: leaning on the divine mechanic

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

Since the dawn of the twentieth-century, scientists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe- and made room among the black holes for ESP, PK,mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …The myth of scientific materialism rests in a historical context. In a sense it … Continue reading →

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the paranormal: distance to psi and back

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

…Furthermore, most of us, even if not bored to death by statistics, are apt to look at parapsychology with the prejudices of nineteenth-century mechanistic science. Experimentation in thought transference or precognition is, we assume, a pastime for Victorian parlors, a … Continue reading →

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paranormal: moving with matter

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

…The territory was so new that J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhines’ first experiment got the very categories of telepathy and clairvoyance scrambled. Both experimental situations involved the Rhine cards, printed with the now familiar suits of star, rectangle, circle, cross, … Continue reading →

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cosmos as giant thought

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dave

For over a hundred years, physicists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe, and by doing so have made room among the black holes for ESP, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts among others… The general public remains comparatively apathetic to psi research, … Continue reading →

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