Tag: William Blake

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus in the Wind

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8/7/1822 - 8/7/2020: almost two centuries from the drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose figure immediately became admired and venerated by the most restless spirits. The Prometheus who steals fire to give it to men, found in the English poet a version at the extremes of high ideality, in the name of a radical social and spiritual renewal. An unrepeatable season, here told through little-known sides of ours and through the profound influence on personalities very distant from each other, such as d'Annunzio, Crowley and Carducci.

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William Blake: sacred visions and "Lucid Dreaming"

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Blake's proverbial visions, in addition to having directed his religious life, also influenced his entire artistic work; Alexander Gilchrist, his official biographer, related them to the so-called "lucid dreams", that is to say with the ability of a subject, during the dream activity, to maintain a conscious lucidity, allowing the ego manifest within of the dream of consciously understanding the experience emerging from the subconscious.

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Apollo the Destroyer: "coincidentia oppositorum" in hyperborean mysticism and eschatology

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Although mostly considered in his "luminous" and "uranic" meaning, in the archaic tradition Apollo combines the most extreme dichotomies in his mystical and eschatology: the bow and the lyre, wisdom and "mania", depth and elevation, the catabasis and the journey in spirit to the White Island, the "Fall" of Being and the return of the Golden Age. Starting from ancient sources, we can find similar concepts not only to those of North Asian shamanism and Celtic spirituality, but even to the sacred vision of some modern poets β€” like Blake, Shelley and Yeats - whose Apollonian chrism will appear clearer to us if we analyze their β€œWeltanschauung” in the light of the Platonic and Heraclitean doctrines.

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WB Yeats, William Blake and the sacred power of the imagination

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Although they lived one century after the other, in the biographies of Blake and Yeats it is possible to glimpse two parallel lives, based on some specular guiding ideas that guided their artistic and literary activity: the ideal of " religion of art ”, the saving mission of the artist, the emphasis placed on the imaginative faculty for the purposes of the process of self-realization and the announcement of the advent of a new era to come.

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Towards β€œTimeWave Zero”: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna

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In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".

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