tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3822237464720093555..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The nature of the creative (poetic) tranceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66248118273609749662015-10-06T05:37:22.720+01:002015-10-06T05:37:22.720+01:00@Anon (please use a pseudonym) I have written a bi...@Anon (please use a pseudonym) I have written a bit about Jung - http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=jungBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-43798148764872455402015-10-06T01:24:09.035+01:002015-10-06T01:24:09.035+01:00It'd be interesting to see you grapple with Ju...It'd be interesting to see you grapple with Jung, particularly given how he is rather suddenly unpopular in nearly all circles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-28290586500157621672015-10-06T00:01:58.495+01:002015-10-06T00:01:58.495+01:00In my limited experience, inspiration is a potent ...In my limited experience, inspiration is a potent state brought about by a combination of the appropriate external stimulus and being in a receptive state. That receptive state - in my experience - is one of approaching "that which I cannot label" with an expectancy of perceiving and experiencing something which I must be willing to approach without projection. There is without question a rational element to it, but it is not an explicit rationality. It is more of the mind in its fullness being sung or played by and through what is unfolding. There is a wavelike movement that percolates from the unconscious to the conscious and back again, and the richer one's intellectual life has been the more memory there is to create connections and complex thematic associations, (or mental fugues to keep working with my musical analogy.)<br /><br />Ecstatic states without the intellectual history to draw upon are joyful, potent and occasionally terrifying experiences. With an intellectual history to draw upon they have a rich palette of possible expressive modes in visual art, music, sculpture, literature, poetry and philosophy. They create new apprehensions, awareness and connection that is far greater than when they occur without that intellectual knowledge. <br /><br />Nicholas Fulfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779171820370486921noreply@blogger.com