Class Notes 3/26

Quiz: April 9th, monday
blog your working thesis: April 12th, friday

Rachel has been working on her thesis....time deja vu, memory

We watched the youtube.com clip from The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy realizes....or is told....she had the power all along...."had to leard it for herself"....not enough to want it, go look fo heart's desire.....find the Oz clip here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11BQQvVy8LI

Read:
Lissa's blog, hate & love, Shakespeare, Jon Orsi's blog....existential crisis.......

have you been following your dream? I hope not, because my dream last night a giant tarantula was chasing me........

The Alchemist - Personal Legend, see wikipedia...

Kyle's blog, sleep paralysis....BLOG: room where you sleep

portal in Alchemist, into other works that are in the book. Rumi had already written this story....and Rabbi, Treasure Under the Bridge....
treasure alwas in my possesion

So what? you can change lead into gold. gold would be worth nothing.

East Coker:
"You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not. "

no ecstasy, go by way of ignorance...
need to go through portal...

ecstasy - ekstasis - standing outside ourself....
enthusiasm - posessed by god

go through the dark night of the soul...

Kenosis, emptying out...

Vishnu dream: lotos rose from the navel
Four Quartets: "And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,"

HOMEWORK: blog about the blogger/blog who has taught you the most, or has been the most important to you.....