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Of Dogs, Gambling, Aikido, and Energy Healing

Because my wife and I are training a two-year old Ausiedoodle and are preparing to do so with a puppy Lhasa Apso, we have been watching many videos by Cesar Millan, the “Dog Whisperer.” Most of what he has to say and demonstrate is weirdly familiar to me from my years in Aikido, the paradoxical […]

“Resistance is Futile.”

“Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?” That is the end of William Yeats’ poem “Lyda and the Swan.” The poem explores the Greek myth that Zeus, king of the gods, took the form of a giant swan in order to seduce or rape the […]

Updating Clare Graves, C. G. Jung, Cave Paintings, Shamanism, Saints, Fairies, Kundalini, and Alien Abductions

I have decided to add a tentative conclusion to this blog’s central post: its explanation of Graves’ and Jung’s system. Back before I retired from university, my students often asked questions that amounted to the query: if this is true, what is the big picture it offers. Here is an attempt at that: Tentative […]

Dowsing for Publication

Back in 2001 when I was in the United Kingdom taking a course to be an NLP Trainer, I was writing the novel Dowsing for Intelligence. a comic story about psychology and terrorism. Unfortunately, very soon after we returned from England, the 911 attack rendered terrorism very far from humorous, so I shelved the book. […]

“The Luminous Fish Effect”

A 2007 episode of The Big Bang Theory ends with Sheldon demonstrating his eccentric brilliance by developing a glowing goldfish. In addition to the improbability for a physicist who doesn’t even know how to wash out a beaker properly to have the expertise and equipment for genetic manipulation, there is a further problem with this […]

Gwangju and the Hunger Games

A few years ago, I listened to an academic lecture about regional prejudice in South Korea, particularly in connection to the 1980 protests in the city of Gwangju, which were subdued violently, further aggravating those prejudices. The entire Gwangju region underwent years of retribution, starved as well as denied jobs and education. That situation reminded […]

Chiasmus

While rewatching the first Xmen movie this morning, I was reading Dániel Darvay’s 2014 Philobiblon article: “Chiastic Modernism: Rational Uncanniness and Uncanny Reason.” What attracted me to it was that I am teaching a course on the Bible, a book largely structured in terms of a rhetorical device called “chiasmus,” named after the Greek word […]

The Witch’s Shadow

In Oregon, the land where scrap paper goes to die and be resurrected, I bought a used paperback of The Witch’s Dream by “Florinda Donner-Grau.” I put the name in quotation marks, because she was born Regine Margarita Thal, but under the influence of her cult leader, Carlos Castaneda, she changed almost everything about herself. […]

Prose Poetry

“When all the world was a palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome.”–The Slow Regard of Silent Things In Molière’s classic play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the title character discovers proudly that he is able to speak prose. When I think of how many of my students have had difficulty figuring out the difference between prose and […]

Christine de Pizan’s Remedy for Madness

While listening to a Harry Potter weekend on the Family channel, I was glancing through Katie Robison’s Chaucer Review article “Thou wolt make…thyn hed to ake”: A Post-Chaucerian Treatment for Madness in Christine de Pizan’s Chemin de long estude.” Tied up in teaching and working on articles of my own, etc., I have neglected my […]

New Paintings, Summer – Early Fall 2014

June 13, 2014 by lynn

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turns out, drawing and painting helps me focus on other important things…. these are Purification Butterflies. Ink and transparent watercolor on 140lb HP paper. 7″x10″.

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Latest painting: trying out a new paper. This is Arches Hot Press 140lb watercolor paper, with ink, Inktense, and parfait split watercolor paints applied wet on wet. The medium is heavily tilteded toward movement with high proof vodka and oxgall. “Thai Bay” 7″ x 10″ unframed by Lynn Whitlark

“Thai Bay” cropped. 7″ x 10″ unframed by Lynn Whitlark

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