Month: April 2020
βThe Shiningβ: in the labyrinths of the psyche and time
From the careful analysis of Stephen King's novel (1977) and of the film counterpart by Stanley Kubrick (1980), readings emerge that we can define as "esoteric": the Overlook Hotel as a labyrinth / monster that swallows its occupants and as a space outside of time; the superimposition of the past with the present in a similar perspective to that of the so-called "Akashic memory"; the "shimmer" as a supernatural capacity to insert oneself into this flow outside of time and space; a conception of the United States of America as a single, huge Indian cemetery (and not only).
βBeyond the Realβ: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic
That of narration was born as a profoundly sacred practice: in narrating and narrating the world, man continually recreates and re-establishes it, since βhe no longer lives in a purely physical universe, but in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art and religion are part of this universe, they are the threads that make up the symbolic fabric, the tangled web of human experience ". The narration thus soon becomes the key to the innumerable doors of the Mystery, to a relationship between different yet authentically real dimensions.
βImagining Elsewhereβ: online conference on Arthur Machen
AXIS world in collaboration with Imaginalis It presents:
For the online dating cycle
"IMAGINE THE ELSEWHERE:
the invisible between literature and science "
William Hope Hodgson's Journey at the End of the Night
On April 19, 1918, William Hope Hodgson was hit by a shell on the Belgian front and prematurely left this world. We want to remember it like this, speaking of the new publication of Palindrome types,β¦
Devotion: the sunset of the idols and the WaldgΓ€nger trail
The godless world saw the birth of man. On the desolate battlefield the astonished winner stood up and a naive triumphant grin was printed on his face: the war was perhaps won, the hated enemies defeated, man could finally get out of his lair and march on earth and other creatures. What a joy for the peoples, but what a tragedy for the world! Today, at the "Wall of Time"And al crossroads of history, having broken the order that we have taken for granted too lightly, we are preparing to build new paradigms for the world to come.
βThe Traveler of Agarthaβ: the magical realism of Abel Posse
In the initiatory novel by the Argentine writer and diplomat, published thirty years ago and set during the last bars of the Second World War, the "magical realism" of Pauwels and Bergier, the esoteric doctrines of the Theosophical School of the late nineteenth century, are combined. β which then influenced the Central European secret societies Thule and Vril β and the eastern legend of the underground kingdom of the Immortals. In the background, a Europe by now on its last legs and a Tibet that within a few years would have experienced the indelible tragedy of the Chinese invasion.
Pluto and the transits of the times
In 2009 Pluto, "lord of the seed" - whose cycle lasting about 248 years favors the "diversification of generations" - returned to Capricorn, a position he held in the second half of the eighteenth century when the advent of the Enlightenment occurred . Here we try to analyze how the Plutonic influences have influenced the history of the last centuries, highlighting all the zodiacal transits that have taken place from 1763 to today, sign by sign.
That symbolic parallelism between Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran
A damn human correspondence, essential these days, revealing a secret complicity between two complementary souls of the great Romanian generation in exile: the historian of religions Mircea Eliade and the nihilist philosopher par excellence, Emil Cioran, born on April 8, 1911.
The Fantastic and the shipwreck of reality: βLooks on the Unknown. Decameron of the Mystery βfor 2020
βSguardi sull'Ignotoβ has just been released, an anthology of fantastic literature edited by Bietti and edited by Andrea Scarabelli and Dalmazio Frau. The collection - which also includes a story written by us ("Tumpek Wayang") - was launched a few days ago in an ebook version and can be downloaded for free at this address: http://www.bietti.it/attivita/ioleggodacasa/. For those interested in a printable pdf version, it is possible to request it at: antares@edizionibietti.com. Courtesy of the Publisher, we publish Scarabelli's introduction here.
The suffering of the earth: overpopulation and the myths of depopulation in India, Iran and Greece
The mythologem of "cosmic weariness" and "earth suffering", which inevitably follows a divine action aimed at depopulating the planet - whether it be a war between gods or a deluge sent from heaven - to balance its irremediably compromised equilibrium, is finds with notable correspondences in different Indo-European traditions, or rather Indo-Mediterranean ones: in India and Iran as well as in ancient Greece, and partly also in the Old Testament tradition.
ATRIUM, year XXII, n. 1
We report to our readers the release of the first annual issue of ATRIUM, a quarterly magazine of Metaphysical and Humanistic Studies edited by the Cultural Association Cenacolo Pythagorean Adytum, now in its XNUMXnd year of publication. In the just published book you can read (pp. 69-91) our essay-reportage on the Javanese temple of Borobudur, Buddhist sacred site (of the MahΔyΔna School) considered the largest in the world, as well as among the most important in the Far East; essay-reportage that is configured as an expanded and revised version of the one we published on AXIS world last year:Β Borobudur, "imago mundi" and "stone book" of the dharma.
Terence McKenna and the "food of the gods"
Exactly 20 years ago, on April 3, 2000, Terence McKenna took off towards Hyperspace: for the occasion we review his book "Food of the Gods", recently republished in the Italian translation by Piano B editions, focused on the relationship of humanity through the millennia with the so-called "master plants", but which also critically dwells on the relationship of dependence of modern man with various drugs, legal and illegal, among which McKenna also includes television.
