I enjoyed reading this Matt, thx! I was trying to show my painting in the comments here but don’t see how, so I posted a new note if you want to check it out
Yum!! Of all the Substack subscriptions that landed in my in box this past few days, yours was one of 3 I didn’t automatically erase. I love this. “that primal dyad of self plus world, forever revealing and concealing the real in a projected dream of duality where the truth (of us, the world, everything) both lies behind and beyond the appearance and stands embodied and embedded in and as it.”
I was dipping into Bill Plotkin’s work, do you know it? Wild Mind, Mature and the Human Soul? Most notably doing research for the energies of Fall, West quarter of the year’s wheel, and leaning into the stage of life I am leaving, that Bill call’s the Well Spring. He names the West quadrant of the four-fold self the Dark-Muse and your wording in this piece reverberated with familiarity.
In my work with deep nature connection and mythopoetics, this notion of an ever emergent connection and communication between the so called real world, and all that is shimmering at its edges, or stirring from its depths just beyond the common senses is understood to be very normal. I haven’t studied surrealism as an art form or cultural / philosophical expression before and so this is my first time considering it as part of this Deamon-Dreaming process.
I wonder what you think of our roles as creative creatures and the brink of all this magical perception in the age of ai.
I enjoyed reading this Matt, thx! I was trying to show my painting in the comments here but don’t see how, so I posted a new note if you want to check it out
Yum!! Of all the Substack subscriptions that landed in my in box this past few days, yours was one of 3 I didn’t automatically erase. I love this. “that primal dyad of self plus world, forever revealing and concealing the real in a projected dream of duality where the truth (of us, the world, everything) both lies behind and beyond the appearance and stands embodied and embedded in and as it.”
I was dipping into Bill Plotkin’s work, do you know it? Wild Mind, Mature and the Human Soul? Most notably doing research for the energies of Fall, West quarter of the year’s wheel, and leaning into the stage of life I am leaving, that Bill call’s the Well Spring. He names the West quadrant of the four-fold self the Dark-Muse and your wording in this piece reverberated with familiarity.
In my work with deep nature connection and mythopoetics, this notion of an ever emergent connection and communication between the so called real world, and all that is shimmering at its edges, or stirring from its depths just beyond the common senses is understood to be very normal. I haven’t studied surrealism as an art form or cultural / philosophical expression before and so this is my first time considering it as part of this Deamon-Dreaming process.
I wonder what you think of our roles as creative creatures and the brink of all this magical perception in the age of ai.