“The last dream of that series, I can not tell you all the
dreams, was that I was out in nature, I stood in a field of wheat. An enormous
field of wheat, that was ripe for harvest. I was a child and I held her in my
arm like a baby. The wind was blowing over that field of wheat, now you know
when the wind is blowing over a wheat field those waves over the wheat field,
and with these waves I swayed like that, putting her as if were to sleep. She
felt as being in the arms of a god, of the Godhead. I thought, now, the harvest
is ripe. I must tell her. I told her, you see, what you want and what you
project into me because you are not conscious of it, you have the idea of a
deity you don’t possess, therefore you see it in me. That clicked…It was a
hedonist god, it was a god of nature, of vegetation, he was the wheat himself,
the spirit of the wheat, the spirit of the wind. She was in the arms of that numen.
That is the living experience of an archetype…instantly it clicked…it is as the
dream says, she is in the arms of that archetypal idea. Now that is a numinous
experience and that is the thing that people are looking for, an archetypal
experience that gives them an incorruptible value. They depend on other
conditions, their desires, their ambitions, they depend on other people because
they have no value in themselves, they are only rational, they are not in
possession of a treasure that would make them independent…that is a sort of
liberation.”
- C.G. Jung, from "Matter of Heart"
________
"What primitive African stirring is this? What crowd of
blundering hippos gawking and feeling for life in this mildew maw parade!"
"No,
this is a wisdom gathering, a hapless ruse, to stun the oceans in a violent
gaze of electric natural law. This is a spectral breeding ground for the insane
and loose, those wilderness souls born of less indication about human truth
than one would suspect from a life lived in the rut. Theirs is a tribal howl, a
martyr’s plea, scintillating rasps into the smoked down calling of witchcraft
and group camaraderie through spirit, through visceral tongues."
I am drowned in
a haze of strident intensity, pulsating with every leap from the vibrating mud.
The trickster’s love emanates with personified blood from the livid sky
teething for human thought and supernal desire in this mundane autochthona of
self-engendered lust, detoxified in a laughing rite with the living dream of
mystery, hatching from this circle of African might. Their clothes, wooly, with
animal fear still stretched in the discolored hair. Their homes, perfect and
ingenious with seamless appropriation from this their exploited grounds,
invoked to newborn life again in their visible joy, communal through and
through.
I escape along the brush torn paths, bitten with stings of
lightning and the swatting touch of snakeskin and the feline tail, scattering
an infinitesimal infinitude of insects grouping. The countryside folds past
over the close horizon, a dense lush grows as by sight. A beast moves, unknown.
Feathers, white and tall scatter in the noiseless round. I can sense auspicial
animation as the forest glows and rumbles ever slightly. The bird is infamous
for its glaring foresight, its strength and unearthly demeanor is its hallmark
to fruition in surviving this drunken dreaming landscape of danger without
forewarning. I follow the animal beyond the gates of our natural boundary, or
has it followed me? Can we both be following? There is no end.
______
Africa
"To dream that you are in Africa surrounded by Cannibals, foretells that you will be oppressed by enemies and quarrelsome persons." (iDream)
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Branded with the seal of history.Final and rushed.
“Oh, this is dramaturgy for the sentimental boorish audience of the mob,
who critique and pander with total, serious divorce from the actuality of the place
an energy, which creates law from reason and implements cost
with soul in the spiritual night of the living ghosts.
Do we haunt you?”
“You are my foreboding reminder
behind the veil that shivers with end of day
returning only for the antipodal colour
resembling rust,
yet focused in bottom-up vines that reach to an endogenous planet.
It is leaving earth. We are going with it.”
- excerpt from "Brimming with Dissatisfaction"
