Forrest Wolfe
Mental health advocate, believer in good shadow-works, avant garde author of our memory. www.forrestwolfe.net
- "One learns to swim in the winter and to skate in the summer ". -- William James
- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd, In one selfie place, but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must be ever be." -- Marlowe
- "Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance." -- Ishmael in Moby Dick, "The Chapel"
- Alchemical image in the sign of Scorpio: the will needed to separate and neutralize the venomous thoughts within.
- "Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, accents of anger, words of suffering, and beating hands..." Dante, Canto III
- Religion can be a very wishful and beautiful vision of otherworldly purity. This is a temporary balm for the spirit But sadly this purification often fails to penetrate the destructive illusions under which the believer is held captive, and helps perpetuate, here in this world.
- Original famous painting in the High Museum. Fed into AI and now a tree grows in Antarctica.
- High Museum trees
- I typed in copilot: create an image of Dante guided by Beatrice in hell in the style of Titian. I love this image. It seems very much like what I would hope my next book project may mature into.
- Of day dreams and night dreams: "The castle in the air is not a stepping stone to the nocturnal labyrinth, if anything the nocturnal labyrinths lie like cellars beneath the daytime castle in the air " Ernst Bloch And we live in the middle passage between.
- A very nice article by Esme Weijun Wang, the author of The Collective Schizophrenias. The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...
- From the Black Holocaust museum in Atlanta. theatlantavoice.com/support-loca...
- Amazing paintings by Tom Feelings. The adjoining Shrine of the Black Madonna has a profound civic history
- This episode of Mad In America discusses the ways in which a biomedical mental disease model suffocates the existential dimensions of suffering. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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