DREAM WORK & OUR TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
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How Our Technological World Can Be Experienced As Love
In his great poem, Divine Comedy, Dante portrays reality as saturated in love. But where our souls end up—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradiso—depends on our relationship between desire and will. The Real turns a face towards us reflecting that relationship. When Dante reaches Earthly Paradise his guide Virgil says, “I invest thee then/With crown and mitre, sovereign o’er thyself.” Desire and will united at last! Then he was free to follow his desire (Beatrice). Today the Real has turned a face towards us that reflects the sheer dominance of the will-to-power only. Desire is now in oblivion. Where could we look for this erased desire and what could we do to help desire and will configure themselves in a new way, so that a very different face of the Real may turn towards us, perhaps one we have never seen before.
I dedicate this essay to Russel Lockhart whose very name he once told me means to “unlock hearts”. I so testify! He has led a life dedicated to the truth of the eros/psyche myth and has developed methods for living such an artistic life, such as his method of etymological reverie. Plasma runs through his life as well as mine. He is a master of the erotic life.
Why do I say “plasma”? Read on…
DREAM WORK & OUR TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
