tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post394394301870142053..comments2024-02-13T13:39:31.292-05:00Comments on William Blake: Religion and Psychology: SOUL & BODYLarry Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-85783023396610238502018-01-30T07:30:34.574-05:002018-01-30T07:30:34.574-05:00Oh sorry, I didn't notice that the quotation m...Oh sorry, I didn't notice that the quotation marks enclosed the whole thing apart from your introductory remarks.<br /><br />When you say "Images which become lodged in our minds become reminders of truth which is not easily expressed in words", I see that it is exactly so. And these images may be triggered by unrelated stimuli.<br /><br />And you've pointed me to that movie, "Places in the Heart", which I've now ordered as a DVD rental, to see if it speaks to us too of that shared spirit.<br /><br />Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-70789012853423425712018-01-29T20:51:13.947-05:002018-01-29T20:51:13.947-05:00Don't forget they are Berger's words and B...Don't forget they are Berger's words and Blake's ideas, not mine.<br /><br />Images which become lodged in our minds become reminders of truth which is not easily expressed in words. A movie, 'Places of the Heart', which I saw years ago ends with an image which speaks to me of the shared spirit which is generated by the individual souls which interact however diverse and flawed they may be. The movie doesn't attempt to resolve all of the human failings and conflicts but in the last scene it shows a church service in which communion is being served. As the music plays the bread and wine are passed from person to person in the pews. I was slow to realize that the individuals feeding on the symbols of the blood and body of Christ couldn't be sitting there in that church together. First of all two of them had died in the beginning of the story. They were all there, black and white, rich and poor, saint and sinner, the oppressed and the oppressor. It was a family who were given time to understand, to heal, to forgive and to be forgiven. ellie Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13708032405797473211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-62934607605276381252018-01-28T23:11:38.726-05:002018-01-28T23:11:38.726-05:00Thank you for this very clear exposition, Ellie. I...Thank you for this very clear exposition, Ellie. I shall have to take it with me, internalising what you have said here and pondering further. On one level you have indicated the direction of Blake's thought, which of course occurred many years before modern knowledge of the intricacies of matter, biology, genetics, psychology, psychoneurology and so on. On another level, we like Blake can contemplate reality via the apparatus of our own souls and bodies which cannot be much different from his; and gain a different kind of knowledge which we may call direct knowing, beyond intellectual concepts.<br /><br />Somehow I feel that it's simple: that truth recognizes truth, in the silence of its own being. And then I recall visits to the brain-damaged children's refuge in Kingston Jamaica . . .Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com