in the interests of transparency i'll explain my workings
these are the posts which gave me the impression of panic and distress. i discerned a shrillness which i associate with hysteria.
Have you ever ready Reich on mysticism? There's something very ungrounded about the absence of boundaries implied here, just opening up the psyche and letting rip. Notions like the collective unconscious have long been critiqued for giving a free pass to fascism.
an uncritical acceptance of every kind of cosmic idea, an inflated sense of self-importance because of occult forces ("gods" or "angels") interfering with one's life, an over-reliance on the astral plane, and a contempt for this life and the body.
what I think you're doing here - being really uncritical about a nebulously defined "consciousness-raising".
I've found the Jungian-derived models conspicuous by their absence thus my training so far
Depends on what your goal is really - great art and poetry via psychedelia meeting the avant arde or something else curative and therapeutic? Maybe I'm in the wrong place addressing the latter but there's been wild slippage towards it upthread
i also noticed the two references to Jung. I haven't mentioned Jung. Padraig called me a crypto-Jungian when he was upset with me and I disowned the tag. Playing into it (and ignoring the irony of Reich being even more verboten than Jung in contemporary therapy circles) and bolstering it is very telling in itself. Unconscious, yes, almost certainly, but telling.
i'm being accused of an awful lot here, from insufficient orgiastic potency to schizophrenia to a contempt for this life and the body to a complete absence of boundaries.
and how are we to interpret the introduction of Redgrove? I suggest you think about what that might signal. this is all basic awareness, really the foundations of therapeutic practice.
i think it's important, as i said earlier, for you to voice concerns you may have and i'm glad to have heard them but let's not get into gaslighting territory. for my part yes, i get frustrated when i encounter resistance, as many of us do, and of course that frustration and impatience is discernible in my voice.
you dont need to be psychic to hear it, you need to be literate.
i want to revivify culture. i want artists to understand that they are exploring and building within a real space, that what they do counts, is vitally important and world-changing, that it creates the realities we come to occupy, that imagination is not the same as fantasy, but something far vaster and mysterious and awe-full. this is what i mean by reuniting the psychedelic with the avant-garde. both should inform the other. it is space exploration, the voyage to the stars. that's where we're going.