Notes - Interpretative images of heart & soul /

         Up with four to five on the arthritic scale. Problem: hands and fingers, something relatively new. After checking email a hot bath may help all the joints.

         Coming on noon in a bit. Had the bath but no thoughts on the Living or the Dead. You think, ‘Jesus said let the dead bury the dead’.

         I suppose that is the way it is to be. Jesus the man was quite admirable even if only half of the things said about him are authentic. I feel more comfortable with the basic Jewish concepts as they are the most original in their time. A single G---D, parts unneeded. These Dead have many gods and goddesses with many personifications, personalities and attributes. I wonder what the shamans really feel about such things.

         Why don’t you ask one of them?

         I hadn’t thought about it. I have done such a thing once in a while in an attempt to gain some clarity into the character. Looking into my notes I have this:

        

Panagiotakis [Takis] the Old Shaman – This photo-sample is the closest to what I have in my imagination for the old shaman. (not allowed) I will go with the definition from Princeton.edu: “in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination”.

         I’ll go along with the ‘divination’ as a representation of intuitive insight rather than the interpretation of omens and the like.

         Do you consider the intuitive insight more pure as that is what you consider my own vehicle for adaptive personification? – Amorella.

         I consider you in this present context as an internal creative medium between me and words thus it is not difficult to exaggerate this condition into your being ‘Panagiotakis-like. You haven’t suggested that I read the entrails of any animal for instance. You are word bound only, a leaf in Merlyn books and blog, Amorella. In other words, I see neither one of us as real shamans. I was about to say that you are closer to a muse than a shaman, but then I have two muses, pieces of church architecture – the interiors of ancient Canterbury Cathedral and the Washington National Cathedral. This was at your suggestion.

         Look for a photo of the two on Google. – Amorella.

Canterbury Cathedral

Washington National Cathedral

One Room School House

         The above images capture your sense of the heart and the soul architecturally.

         What comes to mind is Hemingway’s short story title: “Big Two-Hearted River”. The image of the school house soul I had not considered; but I do, it fits in my mind as do the other two, though they two were not thought of a an image of the human heart, at least I do not think so, in fact, it was a cathedral image that in my mind one time conjured the soul not the heart in terms of poetic image.

         You have learned something about yourself. You can talk to Takis later. Time for lunch. Post. – Amorella.