Echoing James Hillman's open-minded approach to psychology, heavily influenced by Jung but wholly open to Freud, and peppered with personal twists, Hill considers the image of the nuclear bomb, and the mythical patterns that its creators and their society - our society - seem to have found themselves enmeshed in as the actual nuts-and-bolts-and-plutonium bomb arose from the wider, deeper dream of the Bomb.
Hill's thesis is both stark and sophisticated. The central contention is that the Bomb has constellated, brought to a head, the core mythical conflict of Western civilisation. Looking behind and before St. John's Revelations, with its final conflict between Beast and Messiah, to Babylon's "primordial dragon" Tiamat and her death ... Read More:
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Wonderfully presented collection of essays, explorations and ideas by a group of experts in their fields. There is an occult flavour to the selection, without hint of New Age fluff, but perhaps it's more accurate to say the writing is simply an antidote to the mainstream. There is food for thought here, certainly. There is also a sense of coherence too, despite the apparently wide-ranging subject matter and style of the individual pieces. It will be interesting to see how that deepens over successive issues.
At a time when magazines sacrifice substance to make way for more advertising, publications like this make for stimulating reading in those precious moments snatched during the working day. My advice is to grab this first issue ... Read More:
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Wonderfully presented collection of essays, explorations and ideas by a group of experts in their fields. There is an occult flavour to the selection, without hint of New Age fluff, but perhaps it's more accurate to say the writing is simply an antidote to the mainstream. There is food for thought here, certainly. There is also a sense of coherence too, despite the apparently wide-ranging subject matter and style of the individual pieces. It will be interesting to see how that deepens over successive issues.
At a time when magazines sacrifice substance to make way for more advertising, publications like this make for stimulating reading in those precious moments snatched during the working day. My advice is to grab this first issue ... Read More:
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Wonderfully presented collection of essays, explorations and ideas by a group of experts in their fields. There is an occult flavour to the selection, without hint of New Age fluff, but perhaps it's more accurate to say the writing is simply an antidote to the mainstream. There is food for thought here, certainly. There is also a sense of coherence too, despite the apparently wide-ranging subject matter and style of the individual pieces. It will be interesting to see how that deepens over successive issues.
At a time when magazines sacrifice substance to make way for more advertising, publications like this make for stimulating reading in those precious moments snatched during the working day. My advice is to grab this first issue ... Read More:
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Wonderfully presented collection of essays, explorations and ideas by a group of experts in their fields. There is an occult flavour to the selection, without hint of New Age fluff, but perhaps it's more accurate to say the writing is simply an antidote to the mainstream. There is food for thought here, certainly. There is also a sense of coherence too, despite the apparently wide-ranging subject matter and style of the individual pieces. It will be interesting to see how that deepens over successive issues.
At a time when magazines sacrifice substance to make way for more advertising, publications like this make for stimulating reading in those precious moments snatched during the working day. My advice is to grab this first issue ... Read More:
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Echoing James Hillman's open-minded approach to psychology, heavily influenced by Jung but wholly open to Freud, and peppered with personal twists, Hill considers the image of the nuclear bomb, and the mythical patterns that its creators and their society - our society - seem to have found themselves enmeshed in as the actual nuts-and-bolts-and-plutonium bomb arose from the wider, deeper dream of the Bomb.
Hill's thesis is both stark and sophisticated. The central contention is that the Bomb has constellated, brought to a head, the core mythical conflict of Western civilisation. Looking behind and before St. John's Revelations, with its final conflict between Beast and Messiah, to Babylon's "primordial dragon" Tiamat and her death under ... Read More:
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