Posted in A, tagged Archetypal Image, archetype, art, collective unconscious, image, jung, literature, mind, music, numinous, Philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, symbols, unconscious on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Archetypal Image According to Carl Jung, the archetypal image is a representation of an underlying archetype.
The archetypal images symbolize and mediate to everyday consciousness the psychological power of the collective unconscious.
Through various modes of expression (e.g. works of art and architecture) mankind translates these hidden archetypal forces into the realm of human culture.
Some contemporary [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Archetypal Image, archetype, art, collective unconscious, image, jung, literature, mind, music, numinous, Philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, symbols, unconscious on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Archetype A term used by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung to indicate the psychological contents of a proposed collective unconscious.
For Jung the archetypes are inherited patterns encoded in the brain, universally shared by mankind.
Not unlike the gods and goddesses of ancient times, archetypes apparently have a psychic life of their own.
In fact, Jung often likens [...]
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Posted in B, tagged Bach, classical, clavier, Germany, harpsichord, keyboard, Lutheran, music, piano on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) German composer and musician born in Eisenach and often regarded as one of the greatest Western classical composers.
Orphaned at the age of 10, he was raised by his brother, Johann Christoph (1671-1721), who taught him the organ and clavier.
His polyphonic inventions raised the existing Baroque tradition to a new and unsurpassed [...]
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Posted in B, tagged bauls, folk music, hippies, india, literature, music, oral tradition, poems, poetry, song, tagore, tantra, verse, visva-bharati, w. bengal, west bengal on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Bauls Wandering devotional minstrels of West Bengal, India.
The Bauls belong to a longstanding bardic tradition that poetically glorifies God while rebuking worldly hypocrisy.
Many practice left hand tantra. Living off alms, they are the peace, love and freedom “hippies” of West Bengal.
Today their timeless songs may be heard on trains and at public fairs called melas.
The [...]
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Posted in B, tagged beat, beatles, bowie, david bowie, harrison, lennon, martin, mccartney, music, pop, ringo, rock and roll, starr, stars, superstars on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Beatles (The) British pop group founded in Liverpool in 1960. The original members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best, replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962 (originally Richard Starkey).
“Love Me Do” was their first UK hit. A string of subsequent hits created the international phenomenon of ‘Beatlemania’ in 1964.
Most of their songs [...]
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Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827) German composer born in Bonn and one of the greatest classical composers of all time.
Beethoven slowly became deaf and conducted his final performance while entirely deaf.
He hoped to study under Mozart in Vienna in 1787 but it’s unclear if this connection was ever made.
While Mozart wrote symphonies relatively quickly, Beethoven scratched [...]
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Berry, Chuck (1926-). Born in St. Louis, Missouri as Charles Edward Anderson Berry, Chuck Berry is one of the first great American Rock and Roll performers.
In his early life he sang Baptist hymns, swing and the blues, later adapting these styles to song writing. His “Roll over Beethoven” was recorded less successfully by the Beatles, [...]
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Posted in B, tagged art, bowie, charity, david bowie, film, music, pop, rock and roll, space oddity, theatre, video, ziggy, ziggy stardust on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Bowie, David (1947-) Originally David Jones, apparently David Bowie changed his surname to not be confused with the popular Monkee of the time, Davey Jones.
Bowie is in a rare league of iconic rockers including the likes of Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Madonna and Elton John.
Like all innovators, his music is often [...]
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Posted in B, tagged Boy George, culture, life, music, pop on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd, 1961- ) In the 1980’s this lead vocalist from the pop group Culture Club followed David Bowie’s lead by cross-dressing and generally combining big business with political statement.
The single “Karma Chameleon” touched on spiritual themes, as did his less (commercially) successful later work.
In the 21st century he remains an outspoken [...]
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Cockburn, Bruce (1945 - ) Canadian, Ottawa-born folk and rock musician who sang about Christianity through natural metaphors well before it was considered ‘cool’ to do so. Despite this, Cockburn managed to survive and even thrive in the Canadian record industry.
He became increasingly critical of what he saw as hypocritical political and religious practices. In [...]
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