A Conversation Between Peter O'Leary and David Bentley Hart
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- On Gnosticism, visionary poetry, cats, dragons, Gnosticism, green children, green men, the Kalevala, Finnish culture....
I recently recorded a conversation with the effervescent poet Peter O’Leary. I chiefly wanted to talk to him about his fascination with Gnostic imagery, but of course these exchanges take on a life of their own. We did in fact spend a good deal of time discussing Gnosticism, ancient and modern, but a number of other topics came up as well, many of which are listed above, and many of which (Herbert Read, Yeats, the correct pronunciation of Greek, whether Greek and Latin stems should ever be combined in English words, Ronald Johnson, and so forth) are listed in parentheses just there ←. A good time was had by all: the two of us, the cat, the dragon…. Roland, unfortunately, was unable to attend, as he was delivering a paper at a conference in Kyoto.
Fascinating. I have lived in a Buddhist country for 30 years. Buddhism eventually won me over. I have written one poem every day for 20 years - religiously. This talk really zoomed my Zen. Thank you.
thank you so much for continuing to post these. I always take away a lot and I end up digging into the works of your guests. Also, they’re good holdover for me in the meantime as I longingly, desperately, agonizingly await the consciousness book.
Wonderful discussion! Thank you both!
Glad to find your September ’21 series on ‘Gnosticism’ on your substack. I have many questions at this point, which I know will be addressed there. _Thank you_ for your engagement, Dr Hart.
I’d love to hear what DBH thinks of the theology and lifelong witness of William Stringfellow, one of the great prophetic voices of the second half of the last century.
He was a great man.
I’d love to hear what DBH thinks of John Hick. I’m finding my way back to him, and many of his ideas ring true after years of trying to make sense of the world.
Dr. Hart's righteous fanatical conviction against the Erasmian pronunciation (God forgive me for uttering those words) deserves several purple hearts.
Even more, I’d love to hear DBH explain in depth where he agrees and disagrees with Barfield.
It’s complicated.
@@leavesinthewind7441 Given your generosity in appearing on undersubscribed podcasts, I’ve more than once thought of starting my own so I could discuss Barfield with you. There would be only one episode, though, since yours are the only thoughts on Barfield I want to hear.
You somewhere describe McCarthy’s novels as “blunderingly bombastic tragedies,” and here you say you’d like to see more of the pleroma in BLOOD MERIDIAN. Is it possible that one’s recognition of the pleroma’s absence in the novel is, in itself, an experience of the pleroma? To me, the novel’s effect is analogous to biblical inspiration. Inspiration (as I understand it) isn’t a quality of an inspired text, but of one’s experience of reading the text. If this is so, one’s abhorrence of the kenoma without is, in fact, a revelation of the pleroma within.
Good talk, but I was a sad to see the cat drop out of the later part of the video
The cat had more interesting plans.
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