Joining together the last several posts – from Jaime Hernandez to magic realism and psyche (Faith) – lines can express physically the psyche that is hidden in time.
Lines that are not factual are true psychically – through the magic realism of Jaime (P144, 145). Jaime’s brother Gilbert is known for his exaggerated female shapes and, actually, the female figure is an ideal example of a line that is not factual.
A factual line – whether curved or straight – doesn’t have the inherent stresses of rhythmic proportion. For a start, why is the female figure curved? The reason is to be able to give birth to the human head or, in other words, the wisdom of the species.
That tells you that the lines are fundamentally symmetrical, head to tail. The perfection of line is a product of primeval symmetry that articulates the figure.
Another way of putting it is that the numbers attached to a figure – 31, 25, 34 – demonstrate the inherent symmetry of the universe.
Whereas modern numbers are attached to algorithms and logical constructs (of politicians or economists), primeval numbers are not.
Taking that a stage further, men and women of faith in the Middle Ages were much more Pythogorean and mystical than are moderns. It all depends if you think the universe is symmetrical or not! (this goes back to Katie Bourman’s black hole HB56)
In that the information we’re given by “them” has no inherent symmetry, it could be a type of ego-compulsion that attaches numbers to certain things that are attractive to the ego (of acolytes). As I’ve been arguing for awhile, the ego-compulsion to remove dirt implies a society that has no decadence and so no revival from disorder or abandon (see Detroit Drama3). Decadence or decay is simply society left to abandon – as parts of America often are owing to economic downturn.
However, if the psyche is kept strong and independent, revival can take place. The physical world decays so that is reality. Strength of psyche comes from maintaining that as a basis of the society.
It is shown in a roughness of living that allows-in dirt and disorder. There is muscular action in-the-field and the lines of nature change through metamorphosis (growth, decay cycle). Compare this with the ego-compulsions of “clean meat” (prev) that allow-in the profane serpent! The traditional societies have a symmetry in terms of the fundamentals of life and death, the lifecycles of nature. The psychic reality is hidden within the symmetries of time that define a strong physical establishment.
A DAY FOR THE HUNTER, A DAY FOR THE PREY
Symmetries are not factual, but they are primal and powerful. One can see them displayed in the designs and lighting of religious establishments.
Religious societies, such as Turkey or India or Iran, have more proportionate, symmetrical power in their establishments that the West, for that reason. Despite everything else, the west’s financial power is weak and has no access to primitive realism.
We may scoff at Milton’s highfalutin phrases, but they have a primal power that Blake captures in his prints (HB145). By going into a factual reality, the west has departed from the primal power that lives in time and expressive line.
This world is found in comic books – be it Kirby or the Hernandez Bros – and also in 60s hippies and rhythmic patterns such as Jamaican dub or other West Indian styles.
The psychic truth is hidden from the compulsive-ego that is attracted to geometry and perspective (number). Blake’s print of Newton has him seemingly unaware of his surroundings in a fantastical coral deep underwater!
Scanning the net, I didn’t see a like interpretation to the one in P59 that the brain is transmuted into the body, ie looking at a silhouette of the brain. It seems to be a print that is capable of varied interpretations to those who prefer visions and fantasies to the cold hard “facts” of reality.
This is partly why I’ve been intent on saying that because the modern order is so attractive to the ego doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not an illusion (of the mind).
Facts are very convincing, by definition, but they may refer to an abnormal reality that is weak and nor strong. A primitive reality is strong, and physical as opposed to mental.
The physical strength of an animal in movement and combat is a type of music; the spine is the bass-note that defines the form, gives it flexibility.
If reality is really a war between the technical and the untamed (Bruce Lee prev) then the music of the spine is not recorded in the modern order. None of the musical aspects of figure appear in DNA. Basically, that’s why DNA is factual and not figurative. After all, a figure is a product of balance – where is balance? It’s something like Plato’s idealism.
While facts do not inhabit a figurative reality (of form) they cannot deny the physique, and hence this idea that the brain transmutes into a body which is as inert as Newton’s in Blake’s print. In other words, because numbers are so convincing to the ego (algorithms), there is a scatological compulsion owing to the reality of the physique (see Slick quote HB62/1). A society of pure number and ego seems to be one where rubbish-removal and work need to be almost equivalent. In other words, there is no work where the body is physically active in areas where there are processes occurring that are cyclical and not simply to do with exit. That is to say, dirt and metamorphosis in-the-field (fertility).
The seeming scatology of Blake’s print points to a physical reality. Milton’s Paradise Lost is full of scatological references in that that is the reality of processes that corrupt and so forth.
The active body is muscle-in-motion that weaves shapes and performs acts of athleticism. The body is strong because it is non-factual; the ego attempts to confine things to the factual area, and make them weak. Fact becomes infertile.
The moon – or the feminine principle of fertility– is equal and opposite to the sun. The problem with data is that there is no fundamental psychic reality. Where there is a fundamental – or absolute – reality, one has interpretations, myths and so on.
There is a real problem with the modern mainstream, which is hooked on numbers as the absolute standard! I noticed that John Bolton (DT) said let’s get back to Reaganism, which means the dollar. There is little to choose between Bolton and Trump really; both support and America of pure order with no corruption or decadence. Whereas it’s a strength that America can be corrupt (as India can). There’s a less monetary tyranny; it’s more natural.
Only Kanye West is into a sort of post-hippy hybrid-rusticity that incorporates lifecycle. In his case it’s cotton cutting in Wyoming, but could involve mixed plantations. No mainstream politico/economo can go that route since they deal solely in numbers ($), infertile facts. The underlying physical reality and hence psychic strength escapes them.
