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the paranormal: does what matter
…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading
cosmic thinking: playing havoc with known principles
Shattering the mechanistic universe and making room among the black holes for ESP, PK, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …Parapsychological research can be divided- though arbitrarily and not at all neatly- into four basic areas. For convenience they are lumped together … Continue reading
rimbaud: farewell of the damned
He held out for some sort of salvation, but what that was to be, its form, went largely unknown and undefined. The broken home, childhood sexual trauma, abusive parents, addiction. Like Jean Genet, the criminal and outlaw experience informed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Genet, jef rossman, joel-peter witkin, leo ferre, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Todd Haynes, Walt Whitman
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Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason
But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading
SPACE CADETS & MECHANIC METEORS
After generations of trial and error, mostly error, man’s age old dream of flying was realized near the end of the eighteenth century in the form of the hot air balloon. This was followed by several decades where daring aeronauts … Continue reading
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Tagged Albertus Magnus, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Johnson, Emanuel Swedenborg, Etienne Montgofier, Father Francesco de Lana, Friar Roger Bacon, Henry Cavendish, Horace Walpole, hot air balloons history, J.A.C. Charles, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Joseph Addison, Joseph Priestley, Leonardo Da Vinci, Montgolfier, Vincent Lunardi
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IN THE VAPOUR OF THE HEAVENLY HOST
T.S. Eliot said that William Blake’s work had the “unpleasantness” of great poetry because it was the product of a kind of terrifying honesty. Blake ( 1757-1827 ) had never been spoilt by a formal, academic education, Eliot argued, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Crabb Robinson, David Erdman, Emanuel Swedenborg, Ernest Cassirer, Ezra Pound, French Revolution, Fuseli, G.K. Chesterton, George Richmond, Isaac Newton, James Joyce, Karl Marx, Peter Stiles, S. Foster Damon, Samuel Foster Damon, Swedenborg, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Butts, Thomas Paine, William Blake, William Hayley, William Wordsworth
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UNPLEASANTLY SANE & MYSTICALLY MAD
“William Blake is an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement….the proor man fancies himself a great master, and has painted a few wretched pictures, some of which are intelligible allegory, others an attempt at sober character by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam and Eve, Edvard Munch, Emanuel Swedenborg, Frantz Fanon, Fuseli, G.K. Chesterton, Jacob Boehme, James Ensor, Joshua Reynolds, Karl Marx, Le Douanier Rousseau, Lord Byron, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Rubens, T.S. Eliot, Timothy Vines, W.B. Yeats, Walter Scott, William Blake, William Blake Nebuchadnezzar, William Wordsworth
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