Totally Other – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Blackwood: the "Panic of the Wilderness" and of infinite distance

Published on: March 14 2019 Last updated on: October 29, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

Today, 150 years ago, Algernon Blackwood was born, initiator of the narrative genre of "occult detectives" but above all unsurpassed cantor of the psychogeographic poetics of otherness.

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Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis

Published on: June 6 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Mito, History of Religions

The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallée based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtōn »By Filolao

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“Picnic at Hanging Rock”: an Apollonian allegory

Published on: March 18 2018 Last updated on: November 28, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Mito

Our analysis of Peter Weir's cult film, making use of the interpretative tools of the anthropology of the Sacred, in particular: the Sacred as "Totally Other" according to Rudolf Otto; the "breaking of level", the "suspension of time" and the theme of access to the Other World by Mircea Eliade; Apollonian symbolism according to the studies of Giorgio Colli.

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“Oniricon”: HP Lovecraft, the Dream and the Elsewhere

Published on: February 18 2018 Last updated on: November 15, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

The recent publication of Bietti allows us to investigate the role of the Dream as a portal to the Elsewhere in HPL's poetics… and even earlier in his biography.

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