Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social), page 16

The nonzero swastika count at Eranos wasn't just limited to the art

and presumably the actual Nazis didn't bother Jung but some paintings did?

The nonzero swastika count at Eranos wasn't just limited to the art

but seriously what kind of just... geometric line art... would make Carl 'I am perfectly fine with literally taking life advice from the spirit of Simon the Magician' Jung think that something was 'dealing with the devil', and not in a happy way?

are those the ones that Frobe is now famous for? which, okay, the swastika count is non-zero, but, sigh, that WAS the 1920s-30s esoteric scene. These scared Jung?

but seriously what kind of just... geometric line art... would make Carl 'I am perfectly fine with literally taking life advice from the spirit of Simon the Magician' Jung think that something was 'dealing with the devil', and not in a happy way?

One of the annoying things about the whole Alice Bailey phenomenon is that it seems like she did most of her writing maybe in the 1920s-30s, but a lot of it wasn't published until the late 1940s, at which point the whole esoteric scene was completely different (because Europe was in flaming ruins... at the hands of an esoteric-themed bunch of bad guys).

And then Bailey's writings were picked up and hyped in the 1970s, in yet another context, without all of that 1920s-30s scene.

It's this quote in particular that makes me go 'hmm?'

Jung did NOT like Alice Bailey, at all, apparently. I wonder just what was so 'horrifyingly cold' about Olga Frobe's Bailey-inspired art, to Jung?

I mean Jung's stuff isn't all that approachable either and one might well look at his work and think it was pretty weird and dark.

Were Frobe's geometric Art Deco works that survived... the art that Jung approved of, or disapproved?

This book on the Eranos lecture scene of the 1930s sounds fascinating. A whole weird mix of characters, from Jewish pacifists to... proto-fascist and alt-right inspiration, Julius Evola.

"Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the 20th Century" by Hans Thomas Hakl, translated by Christopher McIntosh

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=12x_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA29

@Neui @Shutsumon

oh, that's neat! auto-generated transcripts are starting to get pretty good now.

@natecull Will take the time to promote the presentation/notes layout that Dan McKinley (and others) use

http://boringtechnology.club/

@Hyolobrika Because some people might not be interested in that subject.

@forteller I know! I'm pacing my consumption because I don't want it to end too soon.

<< Then I came to the United States, and.. back there is my wife Kathi, my wife of many years, hi Kathi! Be kind to her afterwards. And Kathi brought me to the United States, I moved there, and I found many great people... but I also found this >>

(slide of a terrible typical American street)

<< to me, this was created by people for whom walking's not a reality... a landscape of chain businesses, very few local stores... this is wrong >>

Still being a candle burning in the night.

I feel like I want to hug these people and say "I am really sorry that my religious teachers called you guys Literally Actual Satan, and that even my mum bought into that"

They probably know, but,

it was all such a senseless waste of everyone's time.

Here's him and Kathi in 1981, singing their New Age Christmas Carol "Festival of Light" at Findhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocMBDXchQM

Here's him and Kathi in 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocMBDXchQM

@thegibson I am only four episodes in and I don't know if I want to watch more because I love them all too much and because I REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID IN EPISODE 9 OF SEASON 2 YOU BASTARDS

Change can come in the twinkling of an eye

that's his music, though probably not his Scottish lilt, since he's Slovenian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOZiaItIIc

Change can come in the twinkling of an eye

that's his music, though probably not his Scottish lilt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOZiaItIIc

Change can come in the twinkling of an eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOZiaItIIc