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Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say “hello”. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream. – Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Image and idea hail from the same spooky root. The Greek eidolon means to appear, a mental picture, or a likeness, semblance, or apparition, especially of a dead or absent person. Phantoms and specters are eidolon; ancient ghosts hover atop the heads of their dreamers. The dead are not alive, but they live; their appearances affect us, without predictability or permission. There are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life, said Jung. Dreams and séances taught him the same thing.
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Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say “hello”. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream. – Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Image and idea hail from the same spooky root. The Greek eidolon means to appear, a mental picture, or a likeness, semblance, or apparition, especially of a dead or absent person. Phantoms and specters are eidolon; ancient ghosts hover atop the heads of their dreamers. The dead are not alive, but they live; their appearances affect us, without predictability or permission. There are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life, said Jung. Dreams and séances taught him the same thing.
The invisible spring…
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