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Winter of Origins – Week 9 – Hangout #14

Metapsychosis

| March 10, 2016

Feature Image: Paul Chiorean, Fog (with bird) [CC BY 2.0]

Recording of our fourteenth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser, covering Part 2, Chapter 8.

This hangout took place on Tuesday, March 8, 2016:

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About the Book

Our concern is to render transparent everything latent “behind” and “before” the world – to render transparent our origin, our entire human past, as well as the present, which already contains the future.

Jean Gebser was a German-born poet, philosopher and linguist most well known in the English-speaking world for The Ever-Present Origin, first published in 1949. A weighty tome, EPO spans the history of human consciousness –describing a series of trials and tribulations, followed by transformations, that have marked the human journey. Following a “lightning-like” flash of inspiration in the winter of 1932/1933, Gebser sought to understand what he perceived as a radical shift in Western society, exhibited in the poetic expressions of Rilke and other poets of his time. He began a study, starting with Rilke and Spain and culminating – twenty years later – in the first edition of The Ever-Present Origin. From transformations of language, to new expressions of poetry, to scientific discoveries, it was Gebser’s central thesis that a potent “leap” in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today consider a dire, global ecological crisis.

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Jean Gebser was a philosopher, a linguist, and a poet, who described the structures of human consciousness.

[source: wikipedia]

Winter of Origins – Week 9 – Hangout #14

Transmission Between Minds

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