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Use Of Metaphor
I chose the topic of metaphor, because all metaphysical practices as well as paranormal and spiritual experience includes it. It has nothing directly to do with the truth or falsehood of any experience. This is part of why some people are so dismissive of those things in the first place, because often the experiences have…
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What It’s Like
Archetypes are like Plato’s pure forms. Like super metaphors that have a force of their own and no single cultural drive. The tarot is all archetypes, as are most divinatory systems, though those are very often poorly understood these days and badly interpreted. The “death” card from the tarot. Death is a universal archetype, but…
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Seeing The Unseen
Paradise is a metaphor for a perfect place with only goodness and love? Philosophy is like art. It imitates it in conceptualization, and attempts to address intellectually the elements of meaning in life like “paradise.” The yearning for paradise. An artist wants to express paradise, show or make it. A philosopher wants to understand the…
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Ego As Metaphor
Our metaphors teach us a lot of spiritual truth, and not only that. They give us images to form brand new insights. My own spiritual practices are metaphor heavy. I haven’t found an older path that was a fit, so I have explored many metaphors to identify and come to understand what I am experiencing.…
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In The Mystery
When it becomes habit to throw off the “Who I thought I was” then ego just becomes a cramp that you shrug off without effort. Just a sensation, and no longer any limitation. For me, I have a neural quirk there. I can’t form the patterns that congeal into “habits” very well. So to have…
Category: Metaphor
Metaphor is how we create a new thing. How we can imagine something entirely new is by metaphor. They give us images to form brand new insights. All metaphysical practices as well as paranormal and spiritual experience includes it and every artist will say this; That their art is inspired by experience. Is it not truth that we can experience a very great deal that doesn’t seem to be literally material?
No idea… no responsive action. This is why there are so many metaphysical practices and religion. That drive not only to see what is or could be, but the desire to do something about it. But can we do any such thing without metaphor?
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.” Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spanish philosopher and humanist , 1883-1955)
“A world ends when its metaphor has died” Archibald MacLeish (American Poet and Critic. 1892-1982)
“Science is all metaphor.” Timothy Leary (American Psychologist and Author. 1920-1996)
“Language is memory and metaphor” Storm Jameson