Excellent overview. Both the subject and vantage point of Fig. 1, compels me to seek some resonance between Hanuman and Paul Bunyan, often depicted in the same heroic pose. A synchronicity too far?
I came to read this by way of spending my morning thinking about combining logical and analogical ways of thinking (and also Aristotle), posting on Twitter about that, seeing you liking another recent post on Twitter about that (Aristotle and Ian McGilchrist), and backtracking in your Substack to this post with book magic because that's generally one of my favorite subjects. I've had one significant PKD (and also, oddly, Aristotle) book magic moment regarding his unwritten book The Owl in Daylight. I thought I might describe that synchronicity in a comment here, but when I went to look the book up today to refresh my memory, the first thing I noticed was that Dick described his goal with it as, according to Wikipedia, "using an interpretation of Joachim de Fiore, where he believed that one age of humanity used the left side of the brain, another the right, and the future would combine the two leading to a greater understanding of what is real." PKD book magic strikes again!
I moved next to Mount Madonna in 1996, and both my kids went to school there. I adored Buck's rendition... I read it to my son and gave it to my daughter to read. They were both involved in the Ramayana theater--which is what got me to move there in the first place. My son had some psychic events, where he "saw" the actual beings in the Ramayana. Anyway, it's nice to read your write-up, thanks. I brought back so much of my history...
I love the Buck version, i always sort of thought it read like the Hobbit.
Svoboda's Aghora 3: Law of Karma has some interesting thoughts about the various burning in the Ramayana. It's been forever since I read it, but I do think that he focuses mostly on the burning of Hanuman's tail and the role Sita played in that lila. If memory serves, parts of these parables relay encoded information about vedic astrology. There may be some mythopoetic truth in this poetic myth, even if it's upsetting. Even if it burns us!
I'll be at the alembic this weekend, hopefully I'll see you in the hallways.
I love a good Repo Man reference. It's the lattice of coincidence!
Excellent overview. Both the subject and vantage point of Fig. 1, compels me to seek some resonance between Hanuman and Paul Bunyan, often depicted in the same heroic pose. A synchronicity too far?
Totally!
I came to read this by way of spending my morning thinking about combining logical and analogical ways of thinking (and also Aristotle), posting on Twitter about that, seeing you liking another recent post on Twitter about that (Aristotle and Ian McGilchrist), and backtracking in your Substack to this post with book magic because that's generally one of my favorite subjects. I've had one significant PKD (and also, oddly, Aristotle) book magic moment regarding his unwritten book The Owl in Daylight. I thought I might describe that synchronicity in a comment here, but when I went to look the book up today to refresh my memory, the first thing I noticed was that Dick described his goal with it as, according to Wikipedia, "using an interpretation of Joachim de Fiore, where he believed that one age of humanity used the left side of the brain, another the right, and the future would combine the two leading to a greater understanding of what is real." PKD book magic strikes again!
I moved next to Mount Madonna in 1996, and both my kids went to school there. I adored Buck's rendition... I read it to my son and gave it to my daughter to read. They were both involved in the Ramayana theater--which is what got me to move there in the first place. My son had some psychic events, where he "saw" the actual beings in the Ramayana. Anyway, it's nice to read your write-up, thanks. I brought back so much of my history...
I love the Buck version, i always sort of thought it read like the Hobbit.
Svoboda's Aghora 3: Law of Karma has some interesting thoughts about the various burning in the Ramayana. It's been forever since I read it, but I do think that he focuses mostly on the burning of Hanuman's tail and the role Sita played in that lila. If memory serves, parts of these parables relay encoded information about vedic astrology. There may be some mythopoetic truth in this poetic myth, even if it's upsetting. Even if it burns us!
I'll be at the alembic this weekend, hopefully I'll see you in the hallways.
I prefer the Hanuman who kills the demons.
https://cybervue23.substack.com/p/the-butcher-the-baker-and-the-black