Patron Saint of the Internet – good little article
Could he only be sanctified, the best candidate might be that good Catholic Marshall McLuhan. Don’t laugh — he was very much a good Catholic. He even won an appointment from the Vatican in 1973.
McLuhan’s truths, like “the media is the massage” (usually misread as “the medium is the message”), still resonate nearly two decades after his death. But my favorite is this one: “Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.”
Interesting too on this page is Isidore’s ideas about choice.
Heresy is from the Greek word meaning “choice”… But we are not permitted to believe whatever we choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed. We have the Apostles of God as authorities, who did not… choose what they would believe but faithfully transmitted the teachings of Christ. So, even if an angel from heaven should preach otherwise, he shall be called anathema.
There is some glimmer of truth in this… we have freedom to choose what we believe, but only if we are happy with nonsense, we are forced to choose from the domain of the credible! That does not leave much, probably not even the authorities Isidore looked to.
A Patron Saint for the Internet
ROME — The Archangel Gabriel is one of Christianity’s great communicators — it was he who brought word to Mary that she would give birth to Jesus, the Bible says. So it was only natural that when a search began for a patron saint for the Internet, Gabriel’s name arose.
According to a poll being conducted by a Roman Catholic organization in northern Italy, he is now in sixth place behind a 20th century martyr, an educator and a publisher born in the 19th century, an 18th century evangelizer and a 13th century nun who saw visions projected on a wall.
The web site, www.santiebeati.it, is soliciting votes with the aim of having an Internet patron saint named by Easter. “We had lots of requests for a patron, so we decided the Internet was the best tool for finding one,” said Roberto Diani, an Internet adviser for Italy’s Conference of Bishops. The official choice will be made by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Cult and Discipline of Sacrament.
More here The Seattle Times: Web site searches for patron saint for Internet
This is not unlike looking for the archetypes of cybersapce and the discussions might well be useful!
Plato by Eric Voegelin
The Amazon page has a particularly interesting review by B Terence Harwick explicating the metaxy.
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury Retro Time Table
September 15, 2002 – October 7, 2002
January 3, 2003 – January 24, 2003
April 27, 2003 – May 21, 2003
August 29, 2003 – September 21, 2003
December 18, 2003 – January 7, 2004
April 7, 2004 – May 1, 2004
August 11, 2004 – September 3, 2004
December 1 – December 21, 2004
As we are now just coming out of the retro phase writing about cyberspace should be a whole lot easier!
Mercury
It represents the power of communication (even the Internet), interpretation and self-expression, intelligence and reason. Its action is to quicken and enliven whilst adding mobility and fluidity. The symbol illustrates receptivity resulting from the exaltation of spirit over matter.
I have been reading quite complex stuff about Hermes and cyberspace… but it is all put very simply in Astrology.
Seattle University: Imagination and Its Discontents – a talk by Dr. Glen Arbery
Linking here because was impressed by his essay cited below, also because I added a link to his book, which has the introduction on line in a pdf file.
Across town Seattle University played host on Tuesday night to Dr. Glen Arbery of the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture. Arbery, who is author of the recent ISI Books’ title Why Literature Matters, delivered a talk to a crowd of over 75 students and faculty entitled “Measure and Freedom: Imagination and its discontents.”
In the forty-five minute lecture, Arbery lamented the abysmal state of literary knowledge on standardized testing. After reading a sample passage from a recent Texas state standardized test, Arbey showed how what counts as literature today does not take stock of what is real, but instead tries to provoke the same response from its entire audience, regardless of their differences. Literature, in other words, has become tantamount to propaganda. Drawing on work by John Crowe Ransom and Allan Tate, Arbery showed how great literature comes into being by taking measure of reality, what he called “reality’s extra-textual roughness.” Similarly he said that freedom, like literature, flows not from liberation but from limitations: “a boundary is not where something stops, but where a thing begins to realize itself, where it comes into being.”
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Science and Astrology by Alain N
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Science and Astrology by Alain Nègre
In an attempt to sort through the conflicts between science and astrology, this article explores the unconscious foundations which gave birth to astrology. It draws from what C.G. Jung called the symbolic function and originates in the ” place ” of the soul where mind and matter may potentially reunite.
Here and Everywhere: the Icons of Global Consciousness
Dallas Institute – but penetrate the “frames” to get to:
Here and Everywhere: the Icons of Global Consciousness, by Glenn Arbery, Ph.D.
A very thorough essay with much to digest on cyberspace.
If, as we have seen, the telos and meaning of the opus of maximizing profit is to render people redundant, does this moment of the symbolic life not serve as our initiation into what I call the ‘psychological difference’, the difference between human and soul? Do we not have to acknowledge it as our psychopomp guiding us out of the anthropological or ontological fallacy dominating the present consciousness and into a new form of consciousness?
Interview with Michael Meade
Mosaic Voices — Watering the Seeds of the Future A January, 2002 three part interview with Michael Meade by Earthlight magazine.
What happens if theyre not shown the recognition of that seed?
Now, were back to death. William Blake said that the garden of the soul is already planted and is waiting for the water of life. Call it the water of attention. There are innate ideas, dreams, stories, buried in people. When we dont water those seeds, culture loses ideas. It loses imagination. It loses the capacity to dream itself forward. I mean that literally.
I have a tape by Micheal Mead – which I liked a lot!
This article appeals right now because of the “to dream itself forward” idea. I am interested. This is somewhat Chardinian, somehow there is a pull — see item below on afford. I am also interested because of story. What is the difference between travel and journey: story. How does this relate to “surfing” and the cyber part of cyberspace?