Tom Bray
@tombray.bsky.social
“Call the world if you please ‘The vale of Soul-making’. Then you will find out the use of the world.” — Keats
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This is from Bergson’s Dreams. He clearly believed that memories have agency and are under positive pressure to come out when they sense the opportunity. Lots of resonance here with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.
Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is from Bergson’s Dreams. He clearly believed that memories have agency and are under positive pressure to come out when they sense the opportunity. Lots of resonance here with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.
Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
#Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
#Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
#Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
#Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.
Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
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December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“Art is thus materialized dream.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Art is thus materialized dream.”
Highly recommend this book. All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Highly recommend this book. All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.
When @drmichaellevin.bsky.social uses the term “interface” I think of it differently than how Kastrup uses the term “dashboard”. An interface in software eng can be thought of as the defined protocol that allow different software components to communicate with each other. That protocol…
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When @drmichaellevin.bsky.social uses the term “interface” I think of it differently than how Kastrup uses the term “dashboard”. An interface in software eng can be thought of as the defined protocol that allow different software components to communicate with each other. That protocol…
Henry Corbin via All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Henry Corbin via All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
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Fabulous quote from Jung.
![Out of the unconscious flows the well of life, and what you don't accept in yourself naturally falls back into that well and poisons it; when you don't recognise certain facts, they form a layer in the unconscious through which the water of life must come up, and it will be poisoned by all those things you have left down below. If they are accepted in your conscious life, then they are mixed with other more valuable and cleaner substances, and the odious qualities of the lower functions disappear more or less. They only form little shadows here and there, sort of spice for the good things. But by excluding them, you cause them to heap up and they become entirely evil substances; for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it.
By Carl Gustav Jung from, 'Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, Vol. 2'.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fabulous quote from Jung.
Mushroom Playing Keyboard Under an Oak
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October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard
YouTube video by BionicandtheWires
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October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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As Jung put it humorously, we all walk in shoes too small for us. Living within a constricted view of our journey & identifying with old defensive strategies, we unwittingly become the enemies of our own growth, our own largeness of soul, through our repetitive, history-bound choice.~James Hollis
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As Jung put it humorously, we all walk in shoes too small for us. Living within a constricted view of our journey & identifying with old defensive strategies, we unwittingly become the enemies of our own growth, our own largeness of soul, through our repetitive, history-bound choice.~James Hollis
Memory as Generative Influence, not Retrieval
“Memory is not facts stored in the brain that you recover , memory is the continuous influence of past generation on your current generation.”
This really resonates with my intuition here.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnC...
“Memory is not facts stored in the brain that you recover , memory is the continuous influence of past generation on your current generation.”
This really resonates with my intuition here.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnC...
Memory as Generative Influence, not Retrieval—Implications for Pathology and Enhancement
YouTube video by Elan Barenholtz, PhD
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September 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Memory as Generative Influence, not Retrieval
“Memory is not facts stored in the brain that you recover , memory is the continuous influence of past generation on your current generation.”
This really resonates with my intuition here.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnC...
“Memory is not facts stored in the brain that you recover , memory is the continuous influence of past generation on your current generation.”
This really resonates with my intuition here.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnC...
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“No creature is fully itself ‘til it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the Sun, the entire living cosmos.”
~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
#Painting, ‘Dandelion’ by Barbara Regina Dietzsch, c. 1755.
~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
#Painting, ‘Dandelion’ by Barbara Regina Dietzsch, c. 1755.
September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“No creature is fully itself ‘til it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the Sun, the entire living cosmos.”
~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
#Painting, ‘Dandelion’ by Barbara Regina Dietzsch, c. 1755.
~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
#Painting, ‘Dandelion’ by Barbara Regina Dietzsch, c. 1755.
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Jungian, David Tacey on spirituality in the context of mental health.
September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Jungian, David Tacey on spirituality in the context of mental health.
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Jung was not concerned with repairing broken lives to fit into an insane social order, but had to reverse the directions of psychiatry and argue that society was mad and, as such, individual madness is to be expected as a product of a more general madness.~David Tacey
August 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Jung was not concerned with repairing broken lives to fit into an insane social order, but had to reverse the directions of psychiatry and argue that society was mad and, as such, individual madness is to be expected as a product of a more general madness.~David Tacey
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Psychologically speaking, whatever we repress into the unconscious will be projected onto other people and life. Thus we will mysteriously attract outer situations and people that constellate the problem and we end up frustrated and mad at ourselves...~Alice O. Howell
August 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Psychologically speaking, whatever we repress into the unconscious will be projected onto other people and life. Thus we will mysteriously attract outer situations and people that constellate the problem and we end up frustrated and mad at ourselves...~Alice O. Howell
Beautiful
“The Tale of the Sands” (from Idries Shah's Tales of the Dervishes).
Read by Terence Stamp.
R.I.P.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNas...
Read by Terence Stamp.
R.I.P.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNas...
The tale of the sands
YouTube video by arraigne3
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August 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Beautiful
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The word suffer in its original sense means 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸. So to suffer creatively is to allow what is, to stop fighting it, and instead to affirm your life. Creative suffering is allowing what is and saying "𝘺𝘦𝘴!" Such experience is redemptive in that it leads to healing & self-knowledge.~RA Johnson
August 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The word suffer in its original sense means 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸. So to suffer creatively is to allow what is, to stop fighting it, and instead to affirm your life. Creative suffering is allowing what is and saying "𝘺𝘦𝘴!" Such experience is redemptive in that it leads to healing & self-knowledge.~RA Johnson
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Anyone who undergoes a development of consciousness is immediately assailed by a sense of abandonment and excommunication from most of the values that formerly sustained him. The old kingdom dissolves beneath and he is left to feel exiled and without any container for life.~RA Johnson
August 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Anyone who undergoes a development of consciousness is immediately assailed by a sense of abandonment and excommunication from most of the values that formerly sustained him. The old kingdom dissolves beneath and he is left to feel exiled and without any container for life.~RA Johnson
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One of the most challenging lessons I've learned on this psychospiritual path.
July 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One of the most challenging lessons I've learned on this psychospiritual path.