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  1. How Sci-Fi Can Help Us Create a Better Future 
    Consuming dystopian science fiction has quickly become a popular coping mechanism for Americans trying to adapt to (or resist) the sometimes-dark
  2. Ego and shadow portrait of Quixote and Sancho
    everyman, Sancho Panza, a squire, can be regarded as a sidekick
    #simpleman #loyalty
  3. new faculty of four-dimensional consciousness
    Every man of consciousness is somewhere on this journey, and it is of immeasurable help to know where you are on the scale of evolution. Almost all
    #journey #seriousman #suffering #simpleman #aging
  4. harmonic structure and color blue
    … the ability to perceive the color blue is a recent acquisition for the human race — it probably developed fewer than two thousand years ago. The
    #colours #music
  5. tempering of one by the other
    … the only redemption for either of a pair of opposites is the tempering of one by the other. Faust is redeemed by the love of Gretchen;
    #opposition #shadow #archetypes #manly
  6. east west concepts of evil
    India has a trinity of gods, with a fourth quite outside that trinity, a structure similar to our own Trinity and devil. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
    #hindu #triplicity #greek #christian #society
  7. tripod and the evolution of three to four
    Meizumi Roshi, a Zen master in Los Angeles, once said, “Why don’t you die now and enjoy the rest of your life?” The use of tripod and key is a
    #triplicity #fourfold #christian #shadow #society
  8. inflation or egocentricity
    When you have earned your enlightenment at the cost of the deep inner journey, your first reaction is often to personalize this experience, to own
    #egocentric #journey #archetypes
  9. homunculus and euphorion
    Made by Wagner — a man the size of a thumb (the second appearance of the puer aeternis). In Faust’s second, less personal and brief marriage with
    #aging #archetypes
  10. dethroning the ego
    … men are tempted to adopt a new kind of egocentricity in which they use their powers of dominating the world for “spiritual” purposes. This is no
    #egocentric #spirituality
  11. charioteer who gallops off at full speed
    The efforts of planning, reasoning, discipline, and heroic ventures would only further the emotional confusion , it is only in the realm of symbol
    #symbols #ceremony #heroic #archetypes
  12. symbol, ceremony, art, and imagination
    The problems of meaninglessness and loneliness, the results of our unlived lives, can be made conscious. We can find an alternate interior
    #play #symbols #ceremony #imagination #simpleman
  13. Moment of utter collapse, kafka
    For a man who has been locked up in his “Hamlet isolation” for half a lifetime, the experience of human warmth and closeness is a reprieve from
    #solitude #suffering #seriousman
  14. the faustian transformation
    Faust and Mephistopheles, a pair as opposite as black and white. The tension between them alerts us to the most important lesson in Faust: that all
    #opposition #shadow
  15. hamlet as prototype of a modern man
    A few moments before his death, Hamlet comes to an awareness of a consciousness beyond his neurotic split and indecision (that which is greater than
    #seriousman #indecision #meaning
  16. Faust, an encounter with the shadow
    Goethe’s Faust, picks up where Hamlet lost the battle and takes us on to that higher consciousness often called redemption. … guide to lead us out
    #shadow #archetypes #individuality #spirituality
  17. hamlet’s failure to incorporate shadow
    Hamlet’s basic error was his failure to incorporate his shadow or dark side into his working life … to acknowledge as an ally the “red blood” of his
    #seriousman #shadow
  18. hamlet’s isolation, uncertain man
    Hamlet, the very epitome of the uncertain man, cannot make up his mind whether to live or die! He cannot live; he dares not die. He tortures
    #seriousman #indecision
  19. comments from tolstoy and blyth
    Tolstoy wrote about suffering: “He was suffering the anguish men suffer when they persist in undertaking a task impossible for them–not from its
    #suffering #seriousman
  20. anima and animus in hamlet
    “He who understands the masculine and keeps to the feminine shall become the whole world’s channel. Eternal virtue shall not depart from him and he
    #anima #seriousman #womanly
  21. complex man in hamlet
    Shakespeare defined complex man with unerring accuracy in Hamlet. a stage higher on the evolutionary scale represented by H., the worried, anxious,
    #seriousman #suffering #existential #opposition #triplicity #fourfold
  22. Cervantes and Shakespeare
    occupied almost the same lifespan. they both died on the same day, April 23, 1616, Don Quixote was published in 1605, and the first edition of
    #medieval
  23. Garden of Eden

    #subject
  24. two-dimensional man don quixote
    Don Quixote (Cervantes) a man so enamored of the simple ways of two-dimensional man — medieval man — that he took on the finery of knighthood and
    #medieval #opposition #reality #simpleman
  25. tilting with windmills, phantoms & illusions
    … symbol of the folly of fighting with phantoms or illusions. Outwardly, this is quite true; but inwardly it is the imaginative heroic battle of the
    #simpleman #heroic
  26. being a florentine lady
    Finally in desperation I tried a Don Quixote-like venture of observing that the young woman looked just like a Florentine painting of a woman
    #simpleman #womanly
  27. three levels system in society
    Societies before the modern era and those still functioning in less-developed parts of the world believe that most people are to be left permanently
    #triplicity #culture #hindu
  28. the verb to happen, happiness
    Later I inquired into the origin of the word happy and found that it derives from the verb to happen. In other words, happiness is to be found
    #language
  29. three levels of masculine consciousness
    One story, for instance, relates that the simple man comes home in the evening wondering what’s for dinner, the complex man comes home pondering the
    #triplicity #egocentric
  30. there are now three in the study
    …, a far more powerful combination than just two. The poodle will bring energy and paradox, both of which are necessary for redemption. … flames
    #hindu #triplicity
  31. reclaiming land from the sea
    The true work of man in the latter part of his life is the cultural process of bringing up some of the contents of the unconscious and integrating
    #ocean #fourfold #aging
  32. poison in the desk drawer
    Faust kept a vial of poison in the back of his desk drawer, anticipating the moment of hopelessness, feeling of loneliness and meaningless reach an
    #reality #suffering #heroic #shadow
  33. materialism - not a solution for the unlived youthfulness
    The American ideal of perpetual youthfulness dies very hard in us. We are so materialistic and so enamored of the power of will that we refuse to
    #reality #aging #materialism
  34. linger, thou art fair
    In Christopher Marlowe’s play “The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus” (late sixteenth century) Faust was to pay for twenty-four years of restored youth by
    #aging #shadow #suffering
  35. holding onto helen’s garment
    It is the universal experience of one on the path to grasp at the tools of genius when he encounters these sublime realms. Pain often compels us to
    #artist #seriousman #egocentric #archetypes
  36. going to the place of the Mothers
    Any man embarking on this symbolic quest must understand that he will be swept into one enthusiasm after another. Such enthusiasms soon wane and are
    #symbols #mother #triplicity #solitude #introspective
  37. in the beginning was the act
    When Faust changes his translation of the beginning line of the Gospel (John 1:1) from “In the beginning was the Word” to “In the beginning was the
    #christian #shadow #seriousman