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Tolkien et l'art des différentes échelles cosmiques

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Tolkien et l'art des différentes échelles cosmiques

Georges Elias interprète la mythologie de Tolkien pour parler de la place de l'Humain dans la hiérarchie cosmique.

Tolkien et l'art des différentes échelles cosmiques

Georges Elias interprète la mythologie de Tolkien pour parler de la place de l'Humain dans la hiérarchie cosmique.

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The Head and the Body

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in April 2021 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. In it the two hosts discuss the symbolic pattern of head and body, tracing it from the Book of Genesis to the role played by cell phone towers during COVID lockdowns.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

The Head and the Body

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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Jun 19, 2023

November 7, 2023

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in April 2021 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. In it the two hosts discuss the symbolic pattern of head and body, tracing it from the Book of Genesis to the role played by cell phone towers during COVID lockdowns.

Le complotisme comme méthode de divination

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Le complotisme comme méthode de divination

Mathieu Grossi utilise le symbolisme du temps et de l'espace pour comprendre les conflits entre les conspirationistes et les journalistes.

Le complotisme comme méthode de divination

Mathieu Grossi utilise le symbolisme du temps et de l'espace pour comprendre les conflits entre les conspirationistes et les journalistes.

Egregores, Principalities and the General Theory of Tensions

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Egregores, Principalities and the General Theory of Tensions

Mário Ferreira dos Santos’ General Theory of Tensions can help us to re-enchant the world.... Mário, the ‘Philosophus Brasiliensis’, was a Pythagorean-Scholastic Roman Catholic Anarchist (I can’t find a better way to describe his intriguing character). His philosophical project began with an endeavor to revive the Pythagorean doctrine using the conceptual tools offered by Aristotle and the Scholastics....

Egregores, Principalities and the General Theory of Tensions

Mário Ferreira dos Santos’ General Theory of Tensions can help us to re-enchant the world.... Mário, the ‘Philosophus Brasiliensis’, was a Pythagorean-Scholastic Roman Catholic Anarchist (I can’t find a better way to describe his intriguing character). His philosophical project began with an endeavor to revive the Pythagorean doctrine using the conceptual tools offered by Aristotle and the Scholastics....

On the Preliminary Symbolic Meaning of Perfume

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On the Preliminary Symbolic Meaning of Perfume

Olfactory experiences, like all symbolic experiences, mediate between the life of the person and the hierarchy of the kosmos by using a high level of metonymical, analogical, and metaphorical expression. This should be clear to us due to the immediate physiological and psychological link found in scent. The link can be easily understood by the way in which smell is processed....

On the Preliminary Symbolic Meaning of Perfume

Olfactory experiences, like all symbolic experiences, mediate between the life of the person and the hierarchy of the kosmos by using a high level of metonymical, analogical, and metaphorical expression. This should be clear to us due to the immediate physiological and psychological link found in scent. The link can be easily understood by the way in which smell is processed....

The Artistry of the Machine in the Empire of Desire

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The Artistry of the Machine in the Empire of Desire

“Art imitates nature.” Many take this concept, which goes at least as far back as Aristotle’s Poetics, to mean that artists represent what they find in the natural world like a landscape painter might replicate a scenic view or a musician might copy the sound of birds. Yet Aristotle actually meant something far more basic (and to contemporary sensibilities, disruptive)...

The Artistry of the Machine in the Empire of Desire

“Art imitates nature.” Many take this concept, which goes at least as far back as Aristotle’s Poetics, to mean that artists represent what they find in the natural world like a landscape painter might replicate a scenic view or a musician might copy the sound of birds. Yet Aristotle actually meant something far more basic (and to contemporary sensibilities, disruptive)...

‘Cosmos’: A Poetic Reflection on the Medieval Model

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‘Cosmos’: A Poetic Reflection on the Medieval Model

Beginning June 6th, a group of us here at The Symbolic World will be reading and discussing C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy. Beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, we will pay close attention to Lewis’s fictional exploration of cosmological models. In his treatise on medieval literature The Discarded Image, Lewis expressed his “hope to persuade the reader not only that this Model of the Universe is a supreme medieval work of art but that it is in a sense the central work...

‘Cosmos’: A Poetic Reflection on the Medieval Model

Beginning June 6th, a group of us here at The Symbolic World will be reading and discussing C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy. Beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, we will pay close attention to Lewis’s fictional exploration of cosmological models. In his treatise on medieval literature The Discarded Image, Lewis expressed his “hope to persuade the reader not only that this Model of the Universe is a supreme medieval work of art but that it is in a sense the central work...

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What Counts as Symbolic Thinking?

How does one identify in symbolic terms a website about symbolic identity? The blog's new chief editor wonders aloud about the brand he is placed in charge of: what ground does it cover? what are its limits? where are its margins?

What Counts as Symbolic Thinking?

How does one identify in symbolic terms a website about symbolic identity? The blog's new chief editor wonders aloud about the brand he is placed in charge of: what ground does it cover? what are its limits? where are its margins?

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Le symbolisme de la croix de Gaspé

Marc Augé a étudié l’espace moderne urbain dans son livre Non-lieux, introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité ...

Le symbolisme de la croix de Gaspé

Marc Augé a étudié l’espace moderne urbain dans son livre Non-lieux, introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité ...

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The Pattern of the Three Marys

Patterns of reversal abound in Gospel symbolism. Within this category we might recognize ...

Kenneth Michael Florence

The Pattern of the Three Marys

Kenneth Michael Florence

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Jan 9, 2023

November 7, 2023

Patterns of reversal abound in Gospel symbolism. Within this category we might recognize ...

Santa Claus as the Hypostasis of Christmas

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Santa Claus as the Hypostasis of Christmas

Every year, millions of parents struggle with whether or not they should tell their children the “truth” about Santa Claus. Our modern sensibilities would have us view the story of Santa through a purely materialist lens which mocks the idea that someone like Santa Claus could actually exist. Naturally, many parents fear that enabling their child’s belief in Santa past a certain arbitrary age cons

Santa Claus as the Hypostasis of Christmas

Every year, millions of parents struggle with whether or not they should tell their children the “truth” about Santa Claus. Our modern sensibilities would have us view the story of Santa through a purely materialist lens which mocks the idea that someone like Santa Claus could actually exist. Naturally, many parents fear that enabling their child’s belief in Santa past a certain arbitrary age cons

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How to Apply Symbolism to One's Life

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in November 2022 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau.

How to Apply Symbolism to One's Life

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in November 2022 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau.

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The Cosmic Chiasmus

Editor’s note: In this article, Cormac Jones uncovers a deep and important pattern. It has restructured the way I see narratives, and I can only compare the experience to the one I had when first reading The Language of Creation in 2018....

The Cosmic Chiasmus

Editor’s note: In this article, Cormac Jones uncovers a deep and important pattern. It has restructured the way I see narratives, and I can only compare the experience to the one I had when first reading The Language of Creation in 2018....