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Jung,
Marie-Louise von Franz
Frater Acher , “Holy Daimon”
Myth of ER in Plato’s Republic
James Hillman “Souls’ code” —> acorn theory - it's this idea that just as the acorn holds in it the potential to become the oak tree you have this unique sprawling massive fractal potential in you but it is completely unique to to you and the Daimon knows the full extent of what this potential is
Egyptians vs daimon - It's tricky to talk about ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian spiritual practices because in a lot of cases are sources for that are Greek and modern scholars don't always think the Greeks got it right.
Daimon characteristics:
- has this ability to express itself in very Mercurial but the ways but the way that it expresses itself is totally dependent upon the way that you interact with it
- it doesn't speak literally it speaks in metaphor it
- speaks in qualities it speaks in a sense of disease it speaks in a sense of
satisfaction
- you can outgrow your daimon and get and new one (?)
The Joker is something deeper and more menacing, more primal than a mere villain. He’s an “agent of chaos,” as he calls himself in the 2008 movie The Dark Knight. He’s anarchic and volatile even from a creative standpoint. As Tom King, author of one of the longest and most celebrated runs of the twenty‐first century states on social media: “Writing
... See more“I control everything he says and does, and dude still scares me.”
Boundaries must be blurred for the trickster to be seen.
blurring as a way to see
When the supernatural and irrational are banished from consciousness, they are not destroyed, rather, they become exceedingly dangerous.