Arantzazu Martinez
@aranm
Arantzazu Martinez
Rituals are programs written in the symbolic language of the unconscious mind. Religions are program libraries that share critical subroutines. And the Gods represent subystems in the wetware being programmed. All humans have potential access to pretty much the same major gods because our wetware design is 99% shared.
Eric S. Raymond • Dancing With The Gods
Ritual is the communication in a mythic tongue, the expression of a universe of experience, compressed into an economy of symbols overloaded into archetype. Ritual is the performance of myth that binds (religare) the individual and the specific to the universal and archetypal. Ritual is the bridge between the ego and the post-historical self.
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
México fue equivocadamente adjetivado como un país surrealista. Nada más lejos de ello. Es un país hiperrealista, donde hasta los mínimos detalles se magnifican.
Guillermo Arriaga • Salvar el fuego (Premio Alfaguara de novela 2020) (Spanish Edition)
García Márquez’s style of writing is commonly referred to as magical realism, which describes, among other things, the way historical events are colored by subjectivity and memory is given the same weight as history. One easily identifiable trait of magical realism is the way in which mundane, everyday things are mingled with extraordinarily
... See moreSparkNotes • 100 Years of Solitude (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
The myth became unliveable as literal claim, and nobody successfully translated it into a form that could survive disenchantment. What remained was the emotional infrastructure without the story: guilt without redemption, sacrifice without meaning, the cross as cultural wallpaper.
The Sacred and the Profane
by Mircea Ellade:
“Eliade shows how deeply our lives are shaped by invisible structures of meaning—rituals, symbols, and sacred spaces—making you reconsider how even the most modern technology platforms subtly echo ancient patterns of human belonging.”
by Mircea Ellade:
“Eliade shows how deeply our lives are shaped by invisible structures of meaning—rituals, symbols, and sacred spaces—making you reconsider how even the most modern technology platforms subtly echo ancient patterns of human belonging.”