Tom Bray
@tombray.bsky.social
“Call the world if you please ‘The vale of Soul-making’. Then you will find out the use of the world.” — Keats
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. Sylvia Plath
A man who is not on fire is nothing: he is ridiculous, he is two-dimensional. He must be on fire even if he does make a fool of himself. A flame must burn somewhere, otherwise no light shines; there is no warmth, nothing.~CG Jung
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.~Alan W. Watts
Jung said you can cure a psychotic patient if you can make him creative. In other words, if what is destroying him from within can be brought forth in writing or painting or some other form, then he can be cured. What we try to do is to help people bring forth the Self.~Marie-Louise von Franz
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) #Photography, Monica Denevan, ‘Apple Orchard, China.’
More on the destructive nature of unlived potential.
Thea Euryphaessa@theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn the destructive nature of unlived potential.
What’s it like to be élan vital? I think the shift in perspective that @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is pointing to here is the next Copernican Revolution. Maybe this video is part of the incremental ingression and niche construction of this new pattern? 🚿🤔 youtu.be/oL4G2_Oznk0?...
Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
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TIL: Inside a 🐛, “imaginal discs” hold the blueprint of the future 🦋 (imago), guiding wings, legs, and eyes—even regenerating correct structures after perturbation. Stumbled across this in @askwilliamblake.bsky.social ‘s lovely book about William Blake, of all places.
"Ask yourself these simple questions: Where do I need to grow up, step into my life? What fear will I need to confront in doing so? Is that fear realistic or from an earlier time in my development?" ~James Hollis, Living an Examined
This is from Bergson’s Dreams. He clearly believed that memories have agency and are under positive pressure to come out when they sense the opportunity. Lots of resonance here with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. ~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) #Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.
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Stinkbugs Use Fungi as Living Shields for Their Eggs Against Parasitic Wasps
Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. • Female stinkbugs of the species Megymenum gracilicorne cultivate symbiotic fungi on specialised glands in their hind legs, then deliberately coat their...
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Highly recommend this book. All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.
When @drmichaellevin.bsky.social uses the term “interface” I think of it differently than how Kastrup uses the term “dashboard”. An interface in software eng can be thought of as the defined protocol that allow different software components to communicate with each other. That protocol…
![Out of the unconscious flows the well of life, and what you don't accept in yourself naturally falls back into that well and poisons it; when you don't recognise certain facts, they form a layer in the unconscious through which the water of life must come up, and it will be poisoned by all those things you have left down below. If they are accepted in your conscious life, then they are mixed with other more valuable and cleaner substances, and the odious qualities of the lower functions disappear more or less. They only form little shadows here and there, sort of spice for the good things. But by excluding them, you cause them to heap up and they become entirely evil substances; for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it.
By Carl Gustav Jung from, 'Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, Vol. 2'.
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Them: What kind of music are you into? Me: youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...
Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard
YouTube video by BionicandtheWires
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Check out how many Native American tribes have hero twin myths: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Tw...
Hero Twins in Native American culture - Wikipedia
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As Jung put it humorously, we all walk in shoes too small for us. Living within a constricted view of our journey & identifying with old defensive strategies, we unwittingly become the enemies of our own growth, our own largeness of soul, through our repetitive, history-bound choice.~James Hollis
Memory as Generative Influence, not Retrieval “Memory is not facts stored in the brain that you recover , memory is the continuous influence of past generation on your current generation.” This really resonates with my intuition here. youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnC...
Memory as Generative Influence, not Retrieval—Implications for Pathology and Enhancement
YouTube video by Elan Barenholtz, PhD
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“No creature is fully itself ‘til it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the Sun, the entire living cosmos.” ~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) #Painting, ‘Dandelion’ by Barbara Regina Dietzsch, c. 1755.
Jungian, David Tacey on spirituality in the context of mental health.
Jung was not concerned with repairing broken lives to fit into an insane social order, but had to reverse the directions of psychiatry and argue that society was mad and, as such, individual madness is to be expected as a product of a more general madness.~David Tacey