"True Detective", between fantastic realism and metapolitics

Attached you can listen to our speech at last night's videoconference, "Metapolitics of TV Series" for GRECE Italie, focused on the esoteric implications of Nic Pizzolatto's first season "True Detective", which we have already had the opportunity to talk about on our pages.


The interiority is formed in chronospheres

In our psyche, especially in the unconscious, time is not only marked by numerically measurable intervals, like those of a chronometer, nor by cause and effect relationships, but also by many qualitative moments that reverberate with each other with own rhythms.

The double spiral and the double movement of emanation and reabsorption of the cosmos

di Marco Maculotti
cover: phases of the moon, taken from "Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae" by Athanasius Kircher, 1646

In the first essay of this column on the theme of the symbolism of the spiral and the "cosmic rebirth" [cf. The symbolism of the Spiral: the Milky Way, the shell, the "rebirth"] we dwelt on the esoteric meanings of the spiral symbol and the closely related ones of the Milky Way and the shell. In this second appointment we aim to analyze the symbol of the double spiral from an even more 'cosmic' perspective, with regard to the traditions that convey this symbol to concepts concerning the creation (or rather, the emanation) of the cosmos and its reabsorption. We will begin our discourse by examining the Indian Brahmin tradition and comparing it with the Tantric Ε›ivaist one of Kashmir, and then analyzing the points of contact, from a religious syncretism point of view, with thatΒ β€” distant in terms of time and spaceΒ β€” pre-Columbian of the Nahua-Aztec peoples.

The symbolism of the Spiral: the Milky Way, the shell, the "rebirth"

di Marco Maculotti

Having analyzed in recent months [cf. Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia] a series of rites, myths and deities connected to the theme of cosmic rebirth, we want in this appointment and in the next ones to focus our attention on some symbols, which we have already mentioned, which archaic man recognized as images capable of eschatologically raising him towards the understanding of this mystery.