In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche recounts the myth of Epimetheus and Pandora. Nietzsche uses the mythic figure of Epimetheus to make a commentary on the limits of Promethean rationality and calculative forethought.
As in The Birth of Tragedy, wherein he had positively contrasted ecstatically irrational and inspired “Dionysian” madness with “Apollonian” rationality, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra the “Epimethean” willingness to be irrationally seduced by the erotic power of Pandora is contrasted with the rational forethought of Prometheus.
Nietzsche embraces the Epimethean despite, or perhaps because of, all the dangerously destructive calamities that may be attendant to this seduction. Nietzsche sees this as an inevitable aspect of human existence.
In fact, it is a seduction to evolve beyond the merely human, an evolutionary potential that we have precisely because (according to the Greek myth) Epimetheus forgot to endow us with any innate nature or species being of the type possessed by various animals.
- Jason Reza Jorjani, PSYCHOTRON
Artwork: Daniel Sabater y Salabert - A Spanish Woman in Hell, 1928 / La Force, Tarot de Marseille / Vali Myers, 1974
As in The Birth of Tragedy, wherein he had positively contrasted ecstatically irrational and inspired “Dionysian” madness with “Apollonian” rationality, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra the “Epimethean” willingness to be irrationally seduced by the erotic power of Pandora is contrasted with the rational forethought of Prometheus.
Nietzsche embraces the Epimethean despite, or perhaps because of, all the dangerously destructive calamities that may be attendant to this seduction. Nietzsche sees this as an inevitable aspect of human existence.
In fact, it is a seduction to evolve beyond the merely human, an evolutionary potential that we have precisely because (according to the Greek myth) Epimetheus forgot to endow us with any innate nature or species being of the type possessed by various animals.
- Jason Reza Jorjani, PSYCHOTRON
Artwork: Daniel Sabater y Salabert - A Spanish Woman in Hell, 1928 / La Force, Tarot de Marseille / Vali Myers, 1974
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Films that have influenced me, #014.
Tony Scott, THE HUNGER (1983).
Tony Scott, THE HUNGER (1983).
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Maybe the greatest opening sequence from any film ever. #GothamForever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZiPhX-SZ88
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The Hunger Opening Credits
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"The female vampire, as most powerfully exemplified in the five consorts of Count Dracula and also in Carmilla, is clearly a nineteenth-century literary reiteration of the medieval- and Renaissance-era conception of a coven of witches in league with Satan. As scientific rationalism rose within the realm of public discourse, and the legal system was secularized, this belief retreated into the realm of the Gothic literary imagination. As with Dracula himself, whose name Dracul means ‘the Dragon’ as understood to be ‘the Devil’ in the form in which he appears in the Apocalypse of St. John, vampires were taken to have the shamanic power of shapeshifting into wolves. In other words, they were also werewolves."
– Jason Reza Jorjani, PSYCHOTRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDLBsBnqPs&list=PLqnnuEVGcRQyIhOwxF086XOW1GNvXq4Sj&index=2
– Jason Reza Jorjani, PSYCHOTRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDLBsBnqPs&list=PLqnnuEVGcRQyIhOwxF086XOW1GNvXq4Sj&index=2
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The Hunger Soundtrack Track 2. "Beach House - Stefany Spruill" Michel Rubini & Denny Jaeger
The Hunger Soundtrack Track 2. "Beach House - Stefany Spruill" Michel Rubini & Denny Jaeger
Buy The Hunger [Blu-ray] https://amzn.to/419tPCz
Buy The Hunger [Blu-ray] https://amzn.to/419tPCz
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecgrOlOoXI
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The Collins elite came to believe that it was in a position of responsibility for holding back the apocalypse, that if the Collins elite were to advise the US government that they should come clean about the nature of close encounters they would in effect be pulling a tripwire that would initiate the apocalypse... That this phenomenon is of a piece with everything that's occurred in biblical history, and their full disclosure of the intelligence behind close encounters would effectively mean the opening up of the book of revelations.
It would mean the unfolding of the final events in eschatological history. And so I think these people may have initially started out with a relatively skeptical, relatively secular mindset, but being from a Christian background, like most people in America, eventually they came to believe that they were somehow endowed with a divine mission to protect mankind from the advent of the antichrist and the unfolding of the final events that are recounted in biblical noscripture.
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The Collins elite came to believe that it was in a position of responsibility for holding back the apocalypse, that if the Collins elite were to advise the US government that they should come clean about the nature of close encounters they would in effect be pulling a tripwire that would initiate the apocalypse... That this phenomenon is of a piece with everything that's occurred in biblical history, and their full disclosure of the intelligence behind close encounters would effectively mean the opening up of the book of revelations.
It would mean the unfolding of the final events in eschatological history. And so I think these people may have initially started out with a relatively skeptical, relatively secular mindset, but being from a Christian background, like most people in America, eventually they came to believe that they were somehow endowed with a divine mission to protect mankind from the advent of the antichrist and the unfolding of the final events that are recounted in biblical noscripture.
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Jason Reza Jorjani on Close Encounters
You must must must check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Closer-Encounters-Jason-Reza-Jorjani/dp/1914208382/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
This is our second conversation, our first talk is worth a watch and going into further details…
This is our second conversation, our first talk is worth a watch and going into further details…
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[Aleister] Crowley adopted the term Aeon when he developed Thelema, using it to refer to a coming “Aeon of Horus.” Horus is the Son of Osiris, and as Crowley conceived of it, the Aeon of Horus, who is the Aion of that age, will be an era of bold experimentation and childlike playfulness, unbound by any fixed belief. So writes the man who called himself the Beast and was branded the Wickedest Man In The World:
"The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin… it will be utterly conscienceless, cruel, helpless, affectionate and ambitious… intuitively aware of truth."
In essence, it would be an age defined by Crowley’s infamous maxim: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Only those who could live together by that maxim would survive into this Aeon.
- Jason Reza Jorjani, CLOSER ENCOUNTERS
Artwork: Anato Finnstark, 2020s
"The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin… it will be utterly conscienceless, cruel, helpless, affectionate and ambitious… intuitively aware of truth."
In essence, it would be an age defined by Crowley’s infamous maxim: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Only those who could live together by that maxim would survive into this Aeon.
- Jason Reza Jorjani, CLOSER ENCOUNTERS
Artwork: Anato Finnstark, 2020s
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Man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of the spirit, a distant possibility dreaded as much as it is desired.
- Hermann Hesse, STEPPENWOLF
Artwork: Cody Flynn ( @RCodyBF ) - Hidden Lights / Crystal Tribe, 2014
- Hermann Hesse, STEPPENWOLF
Artwork: Cody Flynn ( @RCodyBF ) - Hidden Lights / Crystal Tribe, 2014
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Logos comes into beYng (seYn) as individuation through strife without which there could be no seduction through eros, and no pro-creation, at any level of existence. Sophia or that Wisdom which lies beyond Knowledge, both as episteme and even as noesis, is an intuitive insight into (if not an “under-standing” of) the nature of this Eros.
- Jason Reza Jorjani, EROSOPHIA
Photo: Franz Roh - Apparition, 1925
- Jason Reza Jorjani, EROSOPHIA
Photo: Franz Roh - Apparition, 1925
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Like the green that cakes in a pot of paint
these leaves are dry, dull and rough
behind this billow of blooms whose blue
is not their own but reflected from far away
in a mirror dimmed by tears and vague,
as if it wished them to disappear again
the way, in old blue writing paper
yellow show, then violet and gray;
a washed-out color as in children's clothes
which, no longer worn, no more can happen to:
how it makes you feel a small life's brevity.
But suddenly the blue shines quite renewed
within one cluster, and we can see
a touching blue rejoice before the green.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Artwork: JRJ with AI - Cover art for NOVEL FOLKLORE: On Sadegh Hedayat’s “The Blind Owl”
these leaves are dry, dull and rough
behind this billow of blooms whose blue
is not their own but reflected from far away
in a mirror dimmed by tears and vague,
as if it wished them to disappear again
the way, in old blue writing paper
yellow show, then violet and gray;
a washed-out color as in children's clothes
which, no longer worn, no more can happen to:
how it makes you feel a small life's brevity.
But suddenly the blue shines quite renewed
within one cluster, and we can see
a touching blue rejoice before the green.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Artwork: JRJ with AI - Cover art for NOVEL FOLKLORE: On Sadegh Hedayat’s “The Blind Owl”
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Unnoscriptd (because what can one say of the mutational melting of this world) © Romina Rizieri (@lehmor).
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