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Tag Archives: Identity
Magical Language
Magical Language BA Ba is the Egyptian word for soul—specifically the personality part of the soul. There are nine different parts to the soul. The other eight are: the khat is the physical body, the sahu is the spiritual body, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology, Religion
Tagged 365, A Shadow Bright and Burning, A Sorrow Fierce and Falling, Abracadabra, Abraxis, Afterlife, Ahura Mazda, akh, Alexandria, Alistair Crowley, BA, Boy's Home, Catholic, Christmas, Creator, Darkest Day, darkness, Dead, Deity, Dualism, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Father El, Five Letters, Game of Thrones, Gnostics, God, God of Light, God of Wisdom and Free Will, Great Archon, Greeks, Harrieta, Heart, Hebrew, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, Hippolytus, hw, Identity, Iran, jb, Jesus, Jewish, Ka, Kabbalah, Khat, Language, Latin, Light, Mage, Magi, Magian, Magic Amulet, Magical Formula, Magical Language, Magnus Chase, Magu, Magus, Mansfield, Medes, media, Numerical Value, Pagan, Persia, Pistis Sophia, Priest, R'hllor, Ra, Rick Riordan, rn, Romans, Rosy Cross, Sacred Heart, sahu, Shadow, Shelby, Sorceress, Soul, Spell, Spirit, Star, Stork, Subtext, swt, The Book of Law, The Crown, The Cup, The Kane Chronicles, The Red Pyramid, The Ship of the Dead, The Sword, The Throne of Fire, The Wand, Uncreated Father, Winter Solstice, Witch, Wizard, Zoroastrianism
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Memory
May 14, 2015 Memory This week has been brought to you by the letter M for Memory. Memory was key both in the movie The Giver and in the movie Still Alice, both which I watched this week. The Giver … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Health, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Psychology, Writing
Tagged 12 years old, 1993, 2007, 2014, 2015, 50s, Academic, Alzheimer's, Anger, Bad, beauty, Benjimin Something, Burden, Disease, Early On-Set, Erase, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Good, Humanity, Hunger, Ideal, Identity, Jonah, Joy, Lacuna, Linda Lay Shuler, Linguistics, Love, Memory, Negative, Not ideal, Old Man, Pain, Painful, Positive, Professor, She Who Remembers, Starvation, Still Alice, Strength, Strong, Teach, Teacher, The Giver, The Letter M, The Receiver, Truth, Utopia
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The Walking Dead
March 6, 2014 Walking Dead “You fight it. You don’t give up. And one day, you just change,” Carol says in The Walking Dead. I got the AMC TV show on DVD this week. I heard about the show since … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Movies/TV
Tagged AMC, Apocolypse, biters, Carol, choice, Dale, Disorder, Dissdence, Divorce, Gone, Group Dynamic, horror, Humanity, Identity, Lost, primal instincts, Season 2, Season 3, Seson 1, Situataion, Stuck, survival, The Walking Dead, Tired, Tragic, TV, Violent, walkers, World, zombies
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Fragmentation, Memory and the Loss of Self
Fragmentation, Memory and the Loss of Self: Michael Ondaatje’s book of poetry Handwriting Cari Lynn Vaughn, 2000 To do Michael Ondaatje justice when writing about him, it appears as if one must use poetry to describe his poetry. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion
Tagged Anil's Ghost, Buddha, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Colonization, Coming Through The Slaughter, Culture, Fragmentaion, Grief, Handwriting, Identity, In The Skin of A Lion, Kirby, Loss, Memories, Michael Ondaatje, Modern Poetry, Mourn, Poem, Poetry, Prose, Running in the Family, Secular Love, Self, Self-hood, Sri Lanka, Temple, The Collected Works of Billy The Kid, The English Patient, There's A Trick I'm Learning To Do With A Knife, Truth, UNCG, War
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D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
The Dionysian and Apollonian Dichotomies of Relationships In D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf are as different as night and day, as hot and cold, as thought and emotion as Apollonian and Dionysian or yin … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Writing
Tagged A Room of One's Own, A World Without A Self, Anna, Apollonian, Birkin, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Chaos, D.H. Lawrence, Dionysian, Fall 2000, Female. Gender, Harmony, Identity, Intimacy, Jacob's Room, James Naremore, Keith Cushman, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lily Brscoe, Loneliness, Male, Mark Spilka, Mellors, Merging, Michael Rosenthal, Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Dalloway, Mrs. Ramsay, Mystical, Orlando, Phoenix, Relationships, Separateness, Sex, Sons and Lovers, The Love Ethics of D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, To The Lighthouse, UNCG, Ursula, Virginia Woolf, Will, Women in Love
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Love, Of Course
April 13, 2009 Love Of Course This is the beginning of love—well, the diary with “Love, Of Course” on the cover anyway! I thought perhaps I would meditate on the questions of love rather than focus on finding answers. The … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Absense, Affection, Anxiety, Attraction, Beloved, Chaos, Compassion, Desire, Fear, Feelings, Fling, Flirting, Fractal Patterns, Identity, Interest, Intimacy, lies, Longing, Love Of Course, Passion, Relationships, Sex, Social Situations, Ton of Bricks, Trust
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The Hunger Games and Shakespeare
January 20, 2013 This week as I finished up The Hunger Games with Mockingjay I felt like I could relate to Katniss and her struggles. The themes of physical hardships, poverty, power, versions of reality, identity and social … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology, Writing
Tagged Castor and Pollux, Identity, Julius Caesar, Katniss, Mockingjay, Peeta, Poverty, Power, Shakespeare, Social Class, Starvation, Stoicism, The Capitol, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games and Philosophy, The Minotaur, The Roman Empire, Theseus, Titus, Troilda and Cressida
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September 11, 2006
September 11, 2006 On the 5 year Anniversary of America’s Darkest Day, I contemplate Gothic Romanticism. What happened on 9/11 seems to have little to do with Wuthering Heights, but perhaps there is a common thread. I dug out my … Continue reading