Of Warlords
“A King I was on a cavern throne, in many pillared halls of stone, with golden roof and silver floor and runes of power upon the door.”
Such was the safety of my stronghold, the bigger the walls, the harder they were to penetrate. Those are the merits of one who is ruler of his domain.
Confused, I entered a fairytale which would one day be relabeled, fable, and was rhythmically marching into a battle I knew well was not mine to fight. All this, for the simple sake of a short lived victory and the acquisitions of spatial geography that was not mine to rule, ill equipped with metaphoric concoctions, loose bound breastplates, swords that cut both ways, blinded by false hope, gagged by pride, entrapped by spells and deafened by a nymph’s song, stood I in search of happily ever after.
Of Fairytales
“We fairies that do run, by the triple Hecate’s team, from the presence of the sun, following darkness like a dream.”
And so, I was roused from sleep, the safety of my cocoon, which seldom brought solace other than the cowardly safety of an exiled heart.
Confounded by chants and charms, I thought my metamorphose was complete and prematurely thought I was ready to take a leap, to fly and be something other than my formal self. Once outside, I saw that I lacked the wings of flight. There, grounded adrift the vastness of the physical, with head in clouds searching for ethereal remedies to the conundrums of the mundane, stood I in search of happily ever after.
Yusef
Where are those quotes from.
I just started a graduate program in Mythological studies and depth psychology....
I hope you are well
Philippe
The first quote is from Beowulf and the second from A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Everything else mine.
Did you say Death Psychology?
WOW.
Sounds morbidly interesting.
I am well thank you.
You funny huh.... lol
DEPTH I did not misspell (although I am a bad speller) lol
It's a branch of Psychology that tends to start with the soul (you can take that in a spiritual way or not) as opposd to the more distant ego oriented intellectual psychiatry that is the main stream.
World Myths, Cultural Myths, Personal Myths (more towards the psychology side)
Very cool so far. =)
sounds cool. Email me your reading and textbook list.
"Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
It's not cynicism, it's just the nature of the beast. You seem to fully understand that and learn from each experience, while mantaining faith with caution, something that's not always easy to do.
The lists are totally hard copy. No digital ones Here's the link to my program. If you want to grab coffee and I'll show you the curriculum I'd be down. I'm loving the program
http://www.pacifica.edu/dp_maphd_mythology.html
I recognized the first one... i just read Beowulf last semester in the summer in my last humanities course...
"loose bound breastplates, swords that cut both ways, blinded by false hope, gagged by pride, entrapped by spells and deafened by a nymph’s song, stood I in search of happily ever after."
...LOVE the imagery in this...big ups.