H.M. Forester

Close-up painting of the head and right shoulder of a young woman in a yellow dress. She is standing close to bushes and holding a small flower to her lips, perhaps smelling it or kissing it. There are yellow, orange, brown and white butterflies all around her.

Source: O'Sullivan, E. (2003) "Bringing a perspective of transformative learning to globalized consumption", International Journal of Consumer Studies, 27 (4), 326–330.

Image: Butterflies / Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Image containing a text quotation, with a stylised drawing of a butterfly with orange and yellow patterned wings and a black body and feelers. The test, from O'Sullivan, E. (2003) "Bringing a perspective of transformative learning to globalized consumption", International Journal of Consumer Studies, 27 (4), 326–330., reads: Transformative Learning: “Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses, our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy.”

“Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world ...”

~ O'Sullivan, E. (2003).

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Source: Carl Jung, “Epilogue”, Psychological Types, Collected Works Volume 6.

Image: Paris - Playing chess at the Jardins du Luxembourg - 2966 / Jorge Royan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Image: Paris - Playing chess at the Jardins du Luxembourg - 2966 / Jorge Royan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. Old retired man wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat playing chess in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. His right hand is hovering over the board as he considers his next move. On the left, beside the chess board are two timers.

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only a half-truth, and must, if it is honest, also admit its inadequacy.”

~ Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 6.

A black-and-white photo of a person casting a long shadow in front of them as they walk along a cobbled street.

Source: Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Godel, and the History of Archetypes.

Image: Shadow of a person on a cobbled street / Magdalena Roeseler / Wikimedia Commons (orig 500px) / CC BY 3.0.

Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouette of a dragon in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Godel, and the History of Archetypes, reads in part: Products of the Unconscious: “Until the shadow is integrated into the personality, the world appears filled with opponents or adversaries who are actually products of the unconscious; afterward, people can be seen as individuals, even people who disagree with us. ... Shadow figures initially appear as feared or despised creatures. As we confront the shadow figures and regain the parts of the [collective] shadow that are actually part of our own personality, the shadow figures evolve, until they are represented by close friends or relatives. By regaining these previously denied character traits, the ego expands; its range of choices of possible behaviors expands. When confronted by situations which previously led to a single behavior—much like the behavioralists' stimulus-response model—now we have a choice. Successful integration of the personal contents of the shadow enables us to accept that there are other parts to our personality. Until the shadow is acknowledged, we are like cardboard figures with no depth. Afterward, we have more faces than the one we present to the world.”

“Until the shadow is integrated into the personality, the world appears filled with opponents or adversaries who are actually products of the unconscious; afterward, people can be seen as individuals, even people who disagree with us.”

~ Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes.

ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.

ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.

Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.

CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.

An orange, black and white-spotted monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis amidst green foliage.

Source: Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Collected Works 18.

Image: Monarch emerges from chrysalis (48716467887) / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / Public domain.

Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Collected Works 18, reads: Can You Spare any Change? “As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself. As nobody knows what he could do, he might be bold to ask himself whether by any chance his unconscious might know something helpful, when there is no satisfactory conscious answer anywhere in sight.”

“As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it thru. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round & to wait for somebody else ...”

~ Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life.

Poem of the Soul – On the mountain by Louis Janmot (1814–1892). Two young female figures in long, flowing dresses ascend a steep, grassy slope. One is leading and holds the other's hand.

Source: Roberts Avens, Imagination Is Reality: Western Nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield, and Cassirer.

Image: Poem of the Soul – On the mountain / Louis Janmot (1814–1892) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Image containing a text quotation. The text, from Roberts Avens, Imagination Is Reality: Western Nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield, and Cassirer, reads: The Forgotten “Third”: “Western distinctions have been reduced to a Cartesian framework ‘between outer tangible reality and inner states of mind, or between body and a fuzzy conglomerate of mind, psyche, and spirit. We have lost the third, middle position which earlier in our tradition, and in others too, was the place of soul: a world of imagination, passion, fantasy, reflection, that is neither physical and material on the one hand, nor spiritual and abstract on the other, yet bound to them both. By having its own realm psyche has its own logic—psychology—which is neither a science of physical things nor a metaphysics of spiritual things.’”

“Western distinctions have been reduced to a Cartesian framework ‘between outer tangible reality & inner states of mind, or between body and a fuzzy conglomerate of mind, psyche, & spirit. We have lost the third, middle position ... soul.’”

~ Roberts Avens, Imagination Is Reality.

Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders.

Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK.

How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance.

The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity.

Tax them.

Photo showing a steep tarmac footpath with five steps at the far end, leading to a row of houses and bungalows. To the left of the path is a wide rectangular white sign at the top of a metal pole, that reads: "Caution: Footpath is not suitable wheelchair or mobility scooters." The photo is aptly titled "The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious".

“The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.”

~ Owen Barfield, Worlds Apart.

Image: The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious 1129253 [with added border] / David Lally / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Geograph) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Image: Up the Creek 604188 / Peter Church / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Geograph) / CC BY-SA 2.0. A sunken barge in Hessle Haven. An area of boarded up building on the left above a row of piles used to be a shipyard.

“According to [Jean] Gebser, we are in the late stages of ‘the deficient mode of the mental-rational structure’, and the rise of left-brain dominance – up the proverbial creek without a paddle, you might say ...”

~ ET, “Re-enchantment in a Materialist World”.

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‘They were careless people’ A cartoon by Michael de Adder

‘They were careless people’ — a cartoon by Michael de Adder

Source: Marie-Louise von Franz, “The Realization of the Shadow”, in C.G. Jung et al, Man and His Symbols.

Image: Inner Voices / James Tissot (1836–1902) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Image: Inner Voices / James Tissot (1836–1902) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. Three men rest and sleep in a ruined building amidst much rubble. In front of them is a bundle of belongings tied to a long stick which one of them presumably carries over his shoulder, suggesting that these men are taking a rest from their travels.

“Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call ‘I’ behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.”

~ Marie-Louise von Franz.

Where are all the "no win, no fee" personal injury lawyers when you actually want them?

Take your time, Officer Larimore. Now, tell us which sub sandwich best fits the description of the one that attacked you that night

A drawing of a group of perhaps twenty convicts in prison clothes carry a huge tree trunk on their shoulders, some on the left, some on the right, while two guards in uniform, with swords by their sides supervise the men. Despite the title, they are not in chains.

Source: George Ivanovich Gurdjieff.

Image: Convict Chain Gang / Unknown artist / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Image containing a text quotation, with a black-and-white drawing of a shackled man in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, reads: Sleep and Slavery: “In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep, or hypnosis. It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source which induces the hypnosis.” ... “One thing alone is certain, that man's slavery grows and increases. Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man. “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

“In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep ...”

~ G.I. Gurdjieff.

The Rise of Sauron in the 21st Century Not content with hijacking "red-pilled" and claiming to be a key player in the Resistance, Musk (and his alt-right ilk) are now perversely u...

[Short blog post] The Rise of Sauron in the 21st Century ...

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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Schiller reads The Robbers to his friends in a secret place while the Duke's henchmen approach. Here he is standing under a lamp on a raised area, his book held out in his right hand, reading it aloud to a group of men standing and sitting in a circle around him.

Source: Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.

Image: Schiller liest die Räuber vor / Anonymous / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

An image containing a text quotation, with a stylised artist's palette and paintbrush in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, reads: As Much Use as a Chocolate Teapot: “‘Utility is the great idol of our time,’ Schiller wrote, ‘to which all powers pay homage.’ Profit, productivity and consumption had become the guiding light of modern societies. Even philosophy, with its celebration of rational thought and scientific progress, had pushed the arts out of sight. But it was beauty that transports us towards ethical principles and makes us better people, Schiller claimed in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man. Art improves the character, and without beauty there is no sense of morality. For Schiller, taste and beauty were the bulwark against brutality, greed and immorality.”

“‘Utility is the great idol of our time,’ Schiller wrote, ‘to which all powers pay homage.’ Profit, productivity & consumption had become the guiding light of modern societies. Even philosophy, with its celebration of rational thought and scientific progress ...”

~ Andrea Wulf.

As you grow i will gift you some snow
Size 17 by 13 inch
On paper
Medium oil

Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society As the poet, dissident, and member of the Czech underground resistance movement during the communist regime, Ivan Martin Jirous wrote, perha...

Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society – while we are still at liberty to do so ...

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Image: Underground Resistance Movement.

#Resist #Resistance #Underground #CounterCulture #Survival #DarkAges