Diana
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isthmus nekoi said:There is only matter, because ultimately, spirit and matter are one and the same, Jung's psychoid. etc etc.
isthmus nekoi said:Check out this picture of Phanes: http://www.plotinus.com/eros.htm
Artificial union of opposites - the marriage. Not quite the hermaphrodite.
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Diana said:firemaiden: I hope you are reading this. You were wondering in a thread how people managed to keep up the wonder of Tarot.
Well, it's moments like these that make one's heart skip a beat and which make you hunger for more and more and more.
isthmus nekoi said:Dionysos - Spirit in Matter. Or (and pls forgive the structuralist perspective here) the union of male (spirit) and female (matter - mater - mother). The world may represent not simply the completed work, but the reunification b/w the split in Western discourse between the "ghost" and the "machine". The shift from the Enlightenment/Modern view of matter as containable, predictable and controlable to the understanding that it is truly mysterious - that the current materialist view of cognitive science (in which all of human consciousness is neuronal firings etc) does not necessarily predicate a reductionist, or fatalistic model of consciousness. There is only matter, because ultimately, spirit and matter are one and the same, Jung's psychoid. etc etc.