Cultures and Civilizations – Art and Poetry

Cultures and Civilizations – Art and Poetry

Hofstadter’s Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and The Glass Bead Game

1. Goedel Escher Bach: The Glass Bead Game as an Epistemic Mirror Read alongside Douglas…
Faust I Mephisto

Faust and C.G. Jung – What holds the world together at its core

Goethe and C.G. Jung “Faust I”, the Germans’ favorite drama is about a scholar who…
Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) The Virgin and Child with St Mary Magdalene and a Donor, 1522

Ecclesiastical Evolution of Mary Magdalene’s Feminine Archetypes

Knowledge Asset: Scriptural Hermeneutics, Christology, Feminine Archetypes Abstract of Magdalene’s Feminine Archetypes This essay reveals…
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Demian and Abraxas – Hermann Hesse and C.G. Jung revisited

In Hermann Hesse’s Demian, protagonist Emil Sinclair receives a note about the Gnostic deity Abraxas…
Dantes Inferno Lust - bosch garden

Dante’s Divine Comedy – symbolism and archetypes

Dante is not just any poet. With his epic poem “Commedia”, in English “Divine Comedy”…
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C.G Jung and Wagner – Rainy Götterdämmerung in Munich.

This is a very personal take on Götterdämmerung the last one in the four of…
Glass Bead Game

Blogsphere as Hesse’s Glass Bead Game against the ‘Feuilletonistic‘ world

The Internet as the Glass Bead Game In Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, Castalia…

Art Symbols future and past – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 2014 and 1937

Now, what is art anyway? To me art works are symbolic patterns, which have connotations…

Art and violence – evil and free will

Whether we like to admit it or not, we always have a choice to do…