"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell" - Antonin Artaud

"repentance is something grandiose dying so something great can be born" wow

"Keep thy mind in Hell and despair not." -St. Silouan the Athonite

Bishop Robert Barron is probably the most influential clergyman in America today. Dear Lord, more like him, please.

@7:06 "Born out of distance from Eden". It is precisely distance one of the main things that modernity has always tried to nullify. Reminds me of Walter Benjamins concept of aura: "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: Its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be".

Music makes manifest the aspirations of the human soul .

“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

Martin Shaw looks like Robin Williams

In this world We walk on the roof of hell Gazing at flowers ― Kobayashi Issa

Desire means ‘ of/from the stars’. Still maintain people confuse passions with desire. Desire is longing and belonging. Keys to mercy and to place.

My mind goes to the Buddhist practice of tonglin when you talk of keeping your mind in hell. When people energetically put themselves above others, it feeds into a mirror effect, which because of modern culture can often create feedback loops instead of being broken by forgiveness and reconciliation.

Love this conversation. Would love to see more jungian lexicon in the mix; I see it has the potential to fill some gaps. Jung and jungian writers have made this connection pretty explicit. “The great mother is impregnated by the loneliness of him that seeks her” -Carl Jung letter to Herman Hesse.

Speaking of "art by happy people is dreadful" (5:40), Neil and Kate DeGraide of the Dirt Poor Robins seem to be very happy people and yet their art is excellent

When the Bluestraveler says, “the hook brings you back”, I imagine it like a Looney Tunes character being removed from the stage. (“Playing in the band” - Grateful Dead) Just because I enjoy something..doesn’t mean I’m any good at it…

Does the Leviathan in Job have anything to do either with this deep hell inside you or more so; possibly be related to the divine darkness of saints?

I've always wondered about Bach's work this way. Is his music a form of self-indulgence, or is he aspiring to show man made in God's image?

well it seems now that people think good art requires deep *learning.

Why is there a Kerry Gold butter ad here 🤣

We suffer for our art

YES! "Mercurius stands at the beginning and end of the work: he is the Prima materia, the Caput Corvi, the Nigredo; as dragon he devours himself and as dragon he dies, to rise again in the Lapis." He is the play of colours in the cauda pavonis and the division into the four elements. He is the Hermaphrodite that was in the beginning, that splits into the classical brother-sister duality and is reunited in the coniunctio, to appear once again at the end in the radiant form of the Lumen Novum, the stone. He is metallic yet liquid, matter yet spirit, cold yet fiery, poison and yet healing draught - a symbol uniting all the opposites." -- Carl Gustav Jung, 'Psychology and Alchemy'

The product of Cain's descendants is everywhere, and as it multiplies, its value seems to become asymptotically close to zero.

I deeply agree. Its a form of ‘giving the devil his due’. Experiencing alpine beauty is a physical form of this art. There’s and embedded nature of hell in it - altitude, mosquitoes, lightning, etc.