Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS by Jung Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:19:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 77 Message-ID: <20250428a@crcomp.net> References: <20250420a@crcomp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:19:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6b2ce00a09e1ecdc56b5ba37f3232e57"; logging-data="3660148"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/50PZsAltrpYFNBIJd/Ouv" Cancel-Lock: sha1:zdKLiU3XQTCE8RxMAsjguOXXszQ= Bytes: 4459 STRANGE LIFE OF IVAN OSOKIN by Ouspensky is a cautionary tale about frittering your life away on daydreams. MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS is non- fiction and mentions the hazards of daydreams in passing. This thread's tenuous daydream linkage motivates me to followup here, instead of starting anew. Non-fiction tends to work as an audio book only in the absence of symbols, tables, formulas, and such. Philosophical books are acceptable as audio books, while physiological and practical physics textbooks fail, for instance. SYMBOLS is full of illustrations. Initially, its suitability as an audio book was an open question. Unintuitively, a lack of distracting illustrations allows better absorption of textual content. After explaining my experience to a member of my church who happens to be a clinical psychologist, she mentioned the left and right brain sides. Off the record, she speculated on side-to-side dithering where the right brain starts to process text only to be abruptly interrupted by the left brain as it interprets intervening images. Til the text in the next paragraph flips the brain back right to restart rotation anew. The above dialog occurred shortly after the Deacon opened floodgates with a sermon about the implications of René Girard's societal scapegoating theory in the wake of the Crucifixion of a man proclaimed innocent by several Biblical sources: Pilate, Herod, a crucified criminal, a Centurian, ... Caiaphas communicates the collective feeling with words along the lines of: better one of us die than all of us. Such scapegoaters stay put in THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS by Le Guin. Jung wrote the first section of the book and approved the four following sections, written by: von Franz, Hederson, Jacobi, and Jaffé. Last year, Free Mason symbology seemed superabundant to me. [1] This year SYMBOLS ?subconsciously? champions Catholicism as a cornucopia of many more symbols. So there you have it - Catholics win again. By the way, are all of you Groyper/Pepe the frog Trump toadies tired of winning yet? (Just kidding.) Readers may find this book a valuable resource to interpret artistic symbolism. It is recommended by both me and my psychologist. # # # NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE by Ouspensky is my next attempt at an audio book hearing. NEW MODEL remains only a prospect owing to its provocative Table of Contents. It will be scuttled mid-hearing if need be. James raises an interesting issue in a recent thread [2]: There don’t seem to be branching timelines, but rather many universes, some of which resemble each other closely, perhaps because adjacent universes can affect each other. Although much of the plot focuses on an attempt to alter history, evidence points strongly against being able to make meaningful changes. The sticking point is the same phenomenon that caused the home line to suffer the effects of the War without having had a War. If universes diverge too much from the adjacent lines, the history they should have had overwrites the history that they did have. My hunch is Ouspensky coupled with Bohmian mechanics may provide a plausible premise to play with. Note. [1] [2] Danke, -- Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. veritas liberabit vos tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.