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Re: Literature as Spiritual Study

yarculdragonlord said Aug 5, 2007, 11:11 AM:

Literature of Gender is one direction in which to look. I do not mean by this, literature that studies or tries to define a specific gender. I mean literature that explores the very nature of our illusory variations in gender. One might read Wraeththu by Storm Constantine to better understand this literature.

Is there a natural split in the genders? Does gender and sex (male and female) mean the same thing? How do we use the concept of gender? Is the idea of gender a binary concept or is there far more to the concept?

These are some of the questions that literature of the 21st Century will explore.

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Re: Literature as Spiritual Study

Enlightened.thinker said Aug 5, 2007, 12:11 PM:

Yep, you are probably right Johan. After all JM Barrie and Peter Pan and Baums Wizard of Oz are celebrated, but not in formal literary study. One author hated for many years was Heningway and look at him now!

Yarculdragonlord thanks too for weighing in here. Gender literature is already pretty rampant in colleges. Feminist and also Gay literature has made its way mainstream which is great as it celebrates the human condition of this century…

Perhaps elder literature will also be included? I woul dlike to see things come from more of a human condition, which includes all these things…I hate schisms though and hope for some kind of unity of experience, even though one cannot find it in all literature.

Archetypal literature is also most excellent…heros journey, mythic themes…full of all sorts of characters from this genre.

Re: Literature as Spiritual Study

Burt [no longer around] said Aug 5, 2007, 3:58 PM:

Very interesting thread, Aley. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that as the influence of the written word continues to wane, spiritual literature will not be encountered so much in sacred texts but in interactive programming that allows particpanst to customize their own metaphysical adventures and experiences. There will always be a place for myth and a shared cultural heritage, but eventually it will take a back seat as we each become a hero with a thousand faces.

Re: Literature as Spiritual Study

Enlightened.thinker said Aug 5, 2007, 7:22 PM:

Hey Burt!
Good to see you! I like what it is you say is coming…never considered it, but reminds me of those interactive headsets we put on and are involved in some sort of experience “inside” the goggles, is this what you mean?
I get the interactive part..and understand it to mean we can travel “into” a scenario and work through the plot and be part of the action?

Can I please be reborn when this happens if I am already transitioned?

i like this one…and as the Hero with 1000 faces, then we won't need movies will we?

correct me if I am misunderstandgin Burt…this is cool..!!!

Aley