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JDVD: SHINNINGS - VISIONS
March 17, 2010
"To use another metaphor, it is the abysswhich becomes visible in the gaps of existence. Some
Kabbalists who have developed this idea...maintain that in every transformation of reality, in every change of form, or every time the status of a thing is altered, the abyss of nothingness is crossed and for a
fleeting mystical moment becomes visible. Nothing can change without coming into contact with this region of pure absolute Being which the mystics call Nothing. The difficult task of describing the emergence of the other Sefiroth from the womb of the first -the Nothing- is somehow managed with the aid
of copious metaphors."
Major Trends in Jewish Mysicism, by Gershom Scholem (p. 217)
"Since we are psychic beings and not entirely dependent upon space and time ,we can easily understand the central importance of the resurrection
idea: we are not completely subjected to the powers of annihilation because our psychic totality reaches beyond the barrier of space and time. [though I cannot post my own thoughts and words because of the censoreship of the State] Through the progressive integration
of the unconscious we have a reasonable chance to make experiences of an archetypal nature providing us with the feeling
of continuity before and after our existence. The better we understand the archetype, the more we participate in its life and the more we realize its eternity or timelessness." (1572)
Psychology and Western Religion, by C. G. Jung (p. 250)
"Madness is no longer the space of indecision throughwhich it was possible to glimpse the original truth of the work of art, but the decision beyond
which this truth ceases irrevocably, and hangs forever over history....by the madness which interrupts it, a work of art opens a void, a moment of silence, a question without answer, provokes a breach without
reconciliation where the world is forced to question itself.....The madness in
which the work of art is engulfed is the space of our enterprise, it is the endless path to
fulfillment, it is our mixed vocation of apostle and exegete. This is why it makes little difference when the first voice of madness insinuated itself into
Nietzsche pride, into Van Gogh's humility."
Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault (p. 288)
"Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't say anything.
Merely show....but allow....by making use of them." [Nla,8] "What matter are never
the "great" but only the dialectical contrasts, which often seem indistinguishable from nuances.
It is nonetheless from them that life is always born anew."[Nla,4] "To thinking belongs the movement as weIl as the arrest of thoughhts.
Where thinking comes to a standstill in a constellation saturated with tensions-there the dialectical image appears..."[N10a,3]
The Arcades Project, by Walter Benjamin [N On Theory of Knowledge]
[note: Jung's use of 'the principle of enantiodromia, a perpetual swinging of the pendulum,'
in his writing. But is it "SAME" in all four (4) of the above ?
JDVD
Footnote - 4/28/2010
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