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In The Company of Rilke
In the Company of Rilke: Why A 20th Century Visionary Poet So Eloquently to 21st Century Readers By Stephanie Dowrick Thomas Merton says, “Rilke is a poet. Is that a small thing?” It is a Rhetorical Question. It is no … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 20th Century Visionary, 21st Century, Affairs, affect, Alice Miller, Artist, Direct Experience of God, effect, Eloquently, Equal to God, German, Gifted Child, God, Harmony, Heart, Hiddeness, In The Company of Rilke, Intensity, Inwardness, Kabir, Language, Letters, Lieben und Tod, Love, Lovers, Mind, Modern Age, Mystic, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Psalm 42, Rearder, Robert Bly, Rumi, Sadness, Sensitive, Soul, St John of the Cross, Stephanie Dowrick, Swan, Terror of Beauty, The Open, theism, Thomas Merton, Transcendence, Truth, Union, Writing
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Grimm
December 20, 2013 Grimm It has been a Grimm week. Although perhaps formidable emotionally, it comes from watching Season 1 of the supernatural series of the same name. Grimm first aired on NBC in 2011. It is a mix up … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 2011, 3 Little Pigs, Ana, Angel, Animals, Big Bad Wolves, Blood Bath, Blutbad, Buffy, Clary Fray, Coma, Cop, Detective, Eisbibers, Fuchsbau, German, Grimm, Hank, Hexenbiest, Humans, Hunter, Juliet, Killer, Monroe, NBC, Nick Burkhardt, Oregan, Pigs, Portland, Protector, Ray, Red Riding Hood, Rosalie, Royals, Sean Renard, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Shadow Hunter, Shape-Shifters, Supernatural, The Brother's Grimm, The X-Files, Vienna, Wesen, Witches, Woo
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The Insanity of Normality
The Insanity of Normality The Insanity of Normality by Arno Grun which was published in 1987 was translated from German in 1992. He says in the preface “Whereas people who can longer bare the absence of human values in the … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Acceptance, Aliveness, Arno Grun, autonomous self, Conformist, Crazy, Criminals, Deliverance, Destructiveness, English, Evil, Fragmented, German, Good, Healing, help, Helplessness, Homosexuality, inner world, Low Self Esteem, Men, Merge, Milan Kundera, Mother, Murder, Nazis, Normal, oppressor, Outer, Overwhelming, Pain, Prison, Pyschic Split, Rage, Rebel, Rejection, sadist, self-esteem, society, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Insanity of Normality, Victim, Victimizer, Violence, Wholeness, Women, World
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Christian Friedrich Hebbel and Romantic Degredation
Christian Friedrich Hebbel and Romantic Degradation Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863), was a German poet and dramatist. He was born into poverty. His father, who died was he was fourteen, was a stone mason. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology, Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged Agnès Bernauer, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Comedy, Die Nibelungen, German, Germany, Greater Good, Gyges and His Ring, Herodes and Mariamne, Herodotus, Individuation, Joan Didion, Judith, Julia, Jung, Katherine, Maria Magdalena, Michael Ondaatje, Michel Angelo, Playwright, Poet, Psychology, Romantic Degradation, Sacrifice, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Bible, The English Patient, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
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Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht I was reading A Dark Muse: The History of the Occult when I stumbled upon the term Sehnsucht. Though I’d seen it before in the book The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolfe and on my CD by … Continue reading
