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Originally Posted by Julie Steiner
In order for the muse to represent creativity's origin "somewhere else," one must either believe that the metaphysical realm of "somewhere else" actually exists, or that an individual's own unconscious mind is a realm so foreign to the conscious mind that it might as well be "somewhere else."
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I know you weren't pressing heavy on the either/or here but either situation deepens the bowl and, I suspect increases, the likelihood of the other. Could be both/and.
Shamanic conceptions of non-ordinary reality seem quite at home with the idea of the soul being desperately tricky and unfathomable to the point of containing an elsewhere.
Maybe I will get to Graves WG one day but it is certainly less enticing now.
I have been working on an Apollo-Marsyas poem for a while. I find the tale has made me very distrustful of Apollo. Should I ever meet him I will be backing away cautiously. Ha. The poem is a bit of a death to Apollo ditty. I am sure I am being a reactionary in this. It keeps me warm.
Thanks for unpacking some of this Julie. It's good to hear.
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