CH 26 THE LABYRINTH....

      ON THE DAY WE GET THE SAD NEWS THAT KEITH EMERSON MUSICIAN OF THE

GROUP 'EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER HAS DIED..AFTER SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE HEAD IN SANTA MONICA U.S.A I WAS REMINDED OF A POST I MADE ON MY OTHER BLOGGER SOME YEARS AGO SO I THOUGHT I'D REPRODUCE IT HERE..

SUICIDE IS A VERY DIFFICULT SUBJECT TO COME TO TERMS WITH.

ALL THE SCHOPENHAUERIAN HIGHBROW PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD DOESN'T HELP

WHEN THE WORLD LOSES A FINE MUSICIAN..

REST IN PEACE KEITH EMERSON.

JIM MORRISON POEM


I am a guide to the Labyrinth

Monarch of the protean towers
on this cool stone patio

above the iron mist
sunk in its own waste

breathing its own breath

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POWER

I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.

I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.

I can

I am

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THINKING AND FEELING INDICATE HIS INNER PERSONALITY 'TYPE'THEY TAKE'PRIORITY' IN HIS PSYCHE HIS 'SENSATION AND INTUITION' HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED...THIS IS WHY THE LABYRINTH HAS 'APPEARED'..IN WORD- SYMBOL-FORM'....HE CANNOT EXPRESS WHAT HE WANTS TO SHOUT TO THE WORLD...THAT HE IS HURTING AND ALONE....WHY? BECAUSE HE HAS BECOME ALIENATED

FROM HIS BELIEF SYSTEMS..'SHAMAN'S BLUES'IS INDICATIVE OF HIS

DRUG EXPERIMENTATION..JIM IS SEVERELY DEPRESSED..

'IRON' IS AN ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR DEPRESSION

MELVILLE, READ, DESCARTES...AND WROTE 'BILLY BUDD SAILOR..'

[INDICATING A 'SUN' IDENTIFICATION IN HIS PSYCHE PERHAPS AS 'BUD' AND

ITS VAST ETYMOLOGY CAN RELATE TO SEXUALITY SOMETHING ELABORATED IN 'MOBY DICK' WITH ITS BIBLICAL ALLEGORY ALL RELATE TO HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND I POSTULATE CANNABIS USAGE IN YOUTH]

MELVILLE WAS WELL EDUCATED IN PHILOSOPHY AND READ ANYTHING HE COULD FIND.

Chapter 35

Platonist

1) One who accepts and adheres to the philosophical thought of Plato.

2) Abstractionist .

Descartian vortices

1) Descartes the philosopher believed that everything had to be proven rationally; he based his proof of identity on the theory, "I think; therefore, I am."

2) vortice--situation drawing into its center all that surrounds it (i.e. whirlpool effect).

Pantheist

One who believes that God is all forces and powers of the universe; God in Nature, or God is Nature.

 

 

 HERMAN MELVILLE READ ABOUT CARTESIAN VORTICES AND INCLUDED REFERENCES TO IT IN SOME CHAPTERS , BUT I'M THINKING HE DID NOT FULLY

UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE SYMBOLISM.HIS IMAGINATION OF COURSE WAS AFFECTED BY MARIJUANA[HEMP]USAGE.

 

MOBY DICK IS HIS LASTING PHALLIC JOKE...THE TRICKSTER'S LAST LAUGH.

 

THE WHITE WHALE WAS MELVILLE'S MOTHER..'MAMMA'.[L].

OR RATHER 'ANIMA'

DICK WORSHIPPING IN A SHITHOUSE APARTMENT IN L A?..MR NIXON?...

THE 'NIXE' WERE WATER SPIRITS..IN MYTHOLOGY...SO THE 'FISHY' CONNECTION

IS EVERYWHERE..'NIXE'= [LEGLESS] MERMAID

AND NIXON IS A STREET TERM FOR HEROIN USER.

'

ithyphallic

adjective

ithy·​phal·​lic ˌi-thi-ˈfa-lik 

1

: of or relating to the phallus carried in procession in ancient festivals of Bacchus

2

a

: having an erect penis 

—usually used of figures in an art representation

b

: OBSCENE, LEWD

JEFFREY LEBOWSKI IS AN INVENTED LITERARY CHARACTER-A PANTHEIST...I'M NOT.-I'M A REALIST.

MY METHOD INVOLVES 'ACTIVE IMAGINATION' WHERE I ENTER INTO DIALOGUE WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS TO SEE WHAT THEY TELL ME REGARDING MY ENQUIRY.

NOW I BELIEVE THAT A METHOD ACTOR WOULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR

SO JEFF BRIDGES KEEPS COMING INTO CONSCIOUSNESS WITH SOMETHING OF A PROBLEM ON HIS MIND.

SO, WHO WAS IT THAT GOT DROWNED JEFF?..

SOME FEMALE  SURFER?..IN A 'WHITE SQUALL?'..OR DID SOMEONE BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT IN A CAR?[A DAY IN THE LIFE]

TRAUMA AND MUSICAL MEMORY,BEING BROUGHT TO CONSCIOUSNESS TO PRODUCE A COMEDY/TRAGEDY BY AN EXPERT CHARACTER ACTOR WHO, LIKE ME

IS A BEATLES FAN.

THE THING ABOUT LABYRINTHS IN MYTHOLOGY OR OTHERWISE IS THEY ARE THERE AS A 'HERO TEST' [USUALLY] BUT DONT JUST APPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR!

THEY FOLLOW A FIBONACCI MATHEMATICAL 'PATTERN' AND CAN BE DAUNTING TO ENTER -BUT IF SOMEONE NEVER EMERGED AFTER SUCCESSFULLY NEGOTIATING

THE 'PUZZLE'...THEN NOBODY WOULD EVER KNOW THE LABYRINTH EXISTED.

THEREFORE THE LABYRINTH NEEDS THE HUMAN !JUST AS MUCH AS THE HUMAN

NEEDS THE LABYRINTH- AND KNOWING THIS- THE HUMAN HERO CAN EMERGE

AFTER DEFEATING THE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES THAT TEND TO APPEAR

IN LABYRINTHS MINOTAURS ETC...AND 'SELF-REALISING'

JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY IS ALL ABOUT RESOLVING DIFFICULT PROBLEMS ON

DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PERCEPTION, DREAMS ETC

AND IT TAKES TIME TO LEARN THIS STUFF...SOMETHING MOST PEOPLE LOST IN THEIR LABYRINTHS DONT HAVE TIME TO DO

ITS EASY TO SAY 'TIME IS A CONCEPT' IT DOESN'T EXIST ETC BUT THE 

MIRROR NEVER FLATTERS AND THE EGO WHEN IN AN 'IDENTIFICATION'

REFUSES TO SEE BEYOND ITS OWN CREATION.

                           
ADDENDUM; 18-08-2020

COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND FARON YOUNG SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD WITH A .38

BUT HIS MUSIC LIVES ON.