Saturday, June 27, 2020
Friday, June 26, 2020
Amazing PBS Toni Morrison Documentary...
Years ago I read just about every Toni Morrison book written. Thanks to this AMAZING documentary about her life...I am learning so much more. This one makes me want to go back and re-read all of those and all of the ones I missed. PBS has helped me in so many ways over the years and this documentary is above all timely. I wish that every person in the USA would watch it. Please support PBS.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
more regarding ~Temenos~...
A temenos enclosed a sacred space called a hieron; all things inside
of this area belonged to the god. Greeks could find asylum within a
sanctuary and be under the protection of the deity and could not be
moved against their will.[10]
A large example of a Bronze Age Minoan temenos is at the Juktas Sanctuary of the palace of Knossos on ancient Crete in present-day Greece, the temple having a massive northern temenos.[11] Another example is at Olympia, the temenos of Zeus. There were many temene of Apollo, as he was the patron god of settlers.
In religious discourse in English, temenos has also come to refer to a territory, plane, receptacle or field of deity or divinity.
C. G. Jung relates the temenos to the spellbinding or magic circle,
which acts as a 'square space' or 'safe spot' where mental 'work' can
take place. This temenos resembles among others a 'symmetrical rose
garden with a fountain in the middle' (the 'squared circle') in which an
encounter with the unconscious can be had and where these unconscious
contents can safely be brought into the light of consciousness. In this
manner one can meet one's own Shadow, Animus/Anima, Wise Old Wo/Man
(Senex) and finally the Self, names that Jung gave to archetypal
personifications of (unpersonal) unconscious contents which seem to span
all cultures.[12]
GOOD SHALL ALWAYS PREVAIL.
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