From: "Jud Evans" <Jud-AT-sunrise74.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: [heidegger-dialognet] RE: Heidegger's analysis of poetical language & RE: Time, Space, Potential Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:54:36 +0100 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl> To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; <heidegger-dialognet-AT-yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 9:25 PM Subject: [heidegger-dialognet] RE: Heidegger's analysis of poetical language & RE: Time, Space, Potential > A shrink says: > Here the only helpful is symbol, which according to its nature of paradox, represents the tertium that does not exist - according to the sentence of logics -, being instead the living truth. That's why we can never hold neither PARACELSUS, nor the alchemists for the fact they used their secret language: a deeper understanding of the soul becoming problematic teaches us quickly that it is far better to reserve your judgment than to hurry to proclaim urbi et orbi the signification of things. Is true, however, that exists a understandable desire for a non-duplicity clarity; but we forget that soul things are life processes, i.e. transformations, that never have to be univocally determined if we do not want to transform what is living and moving in something static. The undefined conceived mithologem and the shining symbol express better, more perfect and, thus, infinite times clearer the soul process that the clearest notion; because symbol does not mediate only a conception on the procedure, but also - what is maybe of the same importance - an experience or an empathic re-living the procedure, whose clear-obscure can only be comprehended by an inoffensive empathic feeling and no way by the brutal intervention of clarity. (C.G. JUNG in Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon) Paracelsus What Jud does is double-thinking as defined by GEORGE ORWELL in 1984: Jud: Because I deny the existence of all the souls, secret words and 'to bes' and the prounouncements of medieval alchemists and wizards. My assessment.of Paracelsus, although a Catholic seems to have acheived outstanding medical improvements is well summed up in this quote from Britannica. . In 1530 he angered the city council of Nürnberg by writing the best clinical description of syphilis up to that time, maintaining that it could be successfully treated by carefully measured doses of mercury compounds taken internally, thus foreshadowing the Salvarsan treatment of 1909. He stated that the "miners' disease" (silicosis) resulted from inhaling metal vapours and was not a punishment for sin administered by mountain spirits. He was the first to declare that, if given in small doses, "what makes a man ill also cures him," an anticipation of the modern practice of homeopathy. Paracelsus is said to have cured many persons in the plague-stricken town of Stertzing in the summer of 1534 by administering orally a pill made of bread containing a minute amount of the patient's excreta he had removed on a needle point. (see also Index: pneumoconiosis) He was the first to connect goitre with minerals, especially lead, in drinking water. He prepared and used new chemical remedies, including those containing mercury, sulfur, iron, and copper sulfate, thus uniting medicine with chemistry, as the first London Pharmacopoeia, in 1618, indicates. Paracelsus, in fact, contributed substantially to the rise of modern medicine, including psychiatric treatment. Carl Gustaf Jung, the psychiatrist, wrote of him that "We see in Paracelsus not only a pioneer in the domains of chemical medicine, but also in those of an empirical psychological healing science." Encyclopaedia Britannica. he seems quite a well balanced figure to me as far as his medical activities are concerned anyway. As far as his spiritual writings are concerned the enclyclopaedia doesn't mention any. Tudor: After all, it is not I who accused on heidegger-dialognet-AT-yahoogroups.com three honorable men of three quite differently defined styles as being the same person. Troll-ing on a serious list I do not find sane either! (Maybe he has a hidden propaganda agenda, however paranoid this would sound). No, no secret agendas - no conspiracy theories - no flying saucers or loony gurus - just plain old denial of the existence of ghosties, and all the rest of the transcendanlist Adams Family. Best wishes, Go for Gold! Jud. --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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