Re: Symbolism/Language/Focus
Thanks for all your replies first of all. I'm glad to see such interest by itself.
However, I've not yet seen what I was looking for. The revelations about the moon are precious to me, the dream terminology I'm catching on to, but I haven't seen any hard fact.
Okay, maybe there aren't any hard facts on this topic but at least some 'hard argumentation'. I hear it claimed again that symbols are a 'universal language' but if they aren't pure as such how can they be? Aren't there misinterpretations? I could understand if any interpretation is right the the openness of the symbols IS the very facet that lends the visual realm back its self-arrangement.
However, the concept breaks down for me when looking at geometric symbols. I mean, the triangle is so pure, if you leave away all the association, it just is in all it's simplicity and complexity. The same goes for a circle. Is it a ring, a ball, a cylinder, an area, is there depth? It doesn't matter for it's all the same! That doesn't work with a symbolistic approach for 'lightning' though.
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