ON THE DAY WE GET THE SAD NEWS THAT KEITH EMERSON MUSICIAN OF THE
GROUP 'EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER HAS DIED..AFTER SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE HEAD IN SANTA MONICA U.S.A I WAS REMINDED OF A POST I MADE ON MY OTHER BLOGGER SOME YEARS AGO SO I THOUGHT I'D REPRODUCE IT HERE..
SUICIDE IS A VERY DIFFICULT SUBJECT TO COME TO TERMS WITH.
ALL THE SCHOPENHAUERIAN HIGHBROW PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD DOESN'T HELP
WHEN THE WORLD LOSES A FINE MUSICIAN..
REST IN PEACE KEITH EMERSON.
JIM MORRISON POEM
I am a guide to the Labyrinth
Monarch of the protean towers
on this cool stone patio
above the iron mist
sunk in its own waste
breathing its own breath
POWER
I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.
I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.
THINKING AND FEELING INDICATE HIS INNER PERSONALITY 'TYPE'THEY TAKE'PRIORITY' IN HIS PSYCHE HIS 'SENSATION AND INTUITION' HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED...THIS IS WHY THE LABYRINTH HAS 'APPEARED'..IN WORD- SYMBOL-FORM'....HE CANNOT EXPRESS WHAT HE WANTS TO SHOUT TO THE WORLD...THAT HE IS HURTING AND ALONE....WHY? BECAUSE HE HAS BECOME ALIENATED
FROM HIS BELIEF SYSTEMS..'SHAMAN'S BLUES'IS INDICATIVE OF HIS
DRUG EXPERIMENTATION..JIM IS SEVERELY DEPRESSED..
'IRON' IS AN ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR DEPRESSION
MELVILLE, READ, DESCARTES...AND WROTE 'BILLY BUDD SAILOR..'
[INDICATING A 'SUN' IDENTIFICATION IN HIS PSYCHE PERHAPS AS 'BUD' AND
ITS VAST ETYMOLOGY CAN RELATE TO SEXUALITY SOMETHING ELABORATED IN 'MOBY DICK' WITH ITS BIBLICAL ALLEGORY ALL RELATE TO HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND I POSTULATE CANNABIS USAGE IN YOUTH]
MELVILLE WAS WELL EDUCATED IN PHILOSOPHY AND READ ANYTHING HE COULD FIND.
Chapter 35
Platonist
1) One who accepts and adheres to the philosophical thought
of Plato.
2) Abstractionist .
Descartian vortices
1) Descartes the philosopher believed that everything had to
be proven rationally; he based his proof of
identity on the theory, "I think; therefore, I am."
2) vortice--situation drawing into its center all that
surrounds it (i.e. whirlpool effect).
Pantheist
One who believes that God is all forces and powers of the
universe; God in Nature, or God is Nature.
HERMAN MELVILLE READ ABOUT CARTESIAN VORTICES AND INCLUDED REFERENCES TO IT IN SOME CHAPTERS , BUT I'M THINKING HE DID NOT FULLY
UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE SYMBOLISM.HIS IMAGINATION OF COURSE WAS AFFECTED BY MARIJUANA[HEMP]USAGE.
MOBY DICK IS HIS LASTING PHALLIC JOKE...THE TRICKSTER'S LAST LAUGH.
THE WHITE WHALE WAS MELVILLE'S MOTHER..'MAMMA'.[L].
OR RATHER 'ANIMA'
DICK WORSHIPPING IN A SHITHOUSE APARTMENT IN L A?..MR NIXON?...
THE 'NIXE' WERE WATER SPIRITS..IN MYTHOLOGY...SO THE 'FISHY' CONNECTION
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