Field Study Proposal
In many traditions, the temple summarizes the creation of the universe (the cosmogeny) seen as a divine unit that has exploded into pieces. The Tarot can be seen as such a temple. Alejandro Jodorowsky calls it a nomadic cathedral, whose mirrors reflect the multifaceted nature of the soul. The Tarot is a mandala, with its own spatial orientation, architecture, and symbolic structure. It has been used as a tool of self discovery for centuries. Through examining the history and symbolism of the Tarot, and by practicing the language of reflection in its mirrors, I hope to gain insight into the complex, multidimensional nature of the unconscious. Perhaps it is only through the study of “beauty” that one may grasp the ineffable and the divine. The study of Tarot can therefore be undertaken as a study of “beauty”. In many ways, the plasticity and complexity of the Tarot reflects the nature of the human brain. If poetry is one way to recycle neurons, it occurs to me that Tarot must certainly be another; as it too is a language that begs for differential interpretations of its words. In The Way of Tarot, Jodoroswky writes, “You start with a pack of cards, you mix up the arcana and lay them flat, which is to say you cut god into pieces. You interpret them and put them back together in sentences. It is a sacred quest that the initiate reader must perform. God is resuscitated not in immaterial form, but in the material world.”.
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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- Ta- Week 8 Log March 7, 2013 10 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Our Dreaming Mind (R. van de Castle); The Sacred and the Profane, The Forge and the Crucible (M. ...
- Ta – Week 7 Log March 7, 2013 12 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Interpreting the Signs of the Times: Beyond Jung, The Magician in the World: Becoming, Creativity, and Transversal Communication ...
- Ta – Week 6 Log February 21, 2013 14 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Interpreting the Signs of the Times: Beyond Jung, The Magician in the World: Becoming, Creativity, and Transversal Communication ...
- Ta – Week 5 Log January 23, 2013 16 hours reading – The Way of Tarot (A. Jodorowsky), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino), The Mirror and the Mask, The Garden of Forking Paths (L. Borges), Creative ...
Bachelardian Reverie
- Ta – Week 8 Bachelardian Reverie March 4, 2013 “Reverie is an oneiric activity in which a glimmer of consciousness subsists. The dreamer of reverie is present in his reverie. Even when the reverie gives the impression of a ...
- Ta – Week 7 Bachelardian Reverie March 4, 2013 “A glimmer of eternity descends upon the beauty of the world. We are standing before a great lake who’s name is familiar to geographers, high in the mountains, and suddenly ...
- Ta – Week 6 Bachelardian Reverie February 19, 2013 “Androgeneity is not buried away in some indistinct bestiality at the obscure origins of life. It is a dialectic at the summit. Coming from one and the same being, it ...
- Ta – Week 5 Bachelardian Reverie February 14, 2013 “The poet’s room is full of words, words which move about in the shadows. Sometimes the words are unfaithful to the things. They try to establish oneiric synoymies between things. ...
Poetry
- Ta – Week 8 Poetry The Magician The Magician points to Earth and Sky; a banded piece of agate – a looking glass – rests in hand. I am cradled between a nurse log and the tangled roots ...
- Ta – Week 7 Poetry The Tower
- Ta – Week 6 Poetry Le Mat
- Ta – Week 5 Poetry The Syzygy A braided river runs through the secret garden of my mind. Whose hand dost paint this river? It’s banks, by which The Aeons come and go, are muddy and fertile. This is ...