"The past is never dead. It's not even dead."
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951
VIRGIL AND DANTE
THE RED BOOK, C.G. JUNG
“Then turn to the dead, listen to their lament and accept them with love.”
C.G. Jung, The Red Book
how do we orient
toward the past?
"When we penetrate a little more deeply below the surface of the psyche, we come upon historical layers which are not just dead dust, but alive and continuously active in everyone—maybe to a degree that we cannot imagine in the present state of our knowledge."
C.G. Jung
SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON, FRANCISCO GOYA, 1819-23
"Smash the Old World.
Establish the New World."
1967 Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda poster.
"We declare that the splendor of
the world has been enriched
by a new beauty: the beauty of speed."
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesto del Futurismo, 1909
hy·dro·pon·ics
The process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil.
The Fall of Icarus, Jacob Peter Gowy, 1636
"First, soul refers to the deepening of events into experiences; second, the significance of soul makes possible, whether in love or in religious concern, derives from its special relation with death."
James Hillman, Revisioning Psychology, 1975
"Are we being good ancestors?"
Jonas Salk