“We don’t so much think about reality, we think reality.” –Frank Faulk

Today on Re-Creative Joe and I talk to accomplished radio documentary maker Frank Faulk about Mr. Joy and Woe himself, William Blake.

https://re-creative.ca/songs-of-innocence-and-of-experience/

This is not a conversation to be missed if you’re interested in the concepts of consciousness, reality and existence... and a few good laughs too.

#williamblake #creativity #poetry #podcast #writingcommunity #writing #books

Los howld in a dismal stupor,
Groaning! gnashing! groaning!
Till the wrenching apart was healed

#WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Poetry

Ah! Sunflower's illustration from

_Songs of Innocence and Experience_

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1934
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1934/1934-h/1934-h.htm#song35

#Poetry #poems #WilliamBlake #WilliamBlakeIllustration #AhSunflower #AhSunflowerIllustation

> Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.

> Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go

#WilliamBlake #AhSunflower
- https://poetandpoem.com/William-Blake/Ah-Sunflower-2

New blog post about two albums that set poems by #WilliamBlake to music: https://blog.carlbettis.com/2-blake-albums.html

“Fiends of Righteousness” — a phrase of #WilliamBlake’s that strikes me every time I read it.

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way”
— William Blake
#WilliamBlake

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg #worldofdarkness

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, & magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

#WilliamBlake
#Poesie

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

In reading #WilliamBlake, apply the same principles I was taught for biblical hermeneutics. Consider:
- who is speaking
- to whom
- in what circumstances

Otherwise, Blake is easy to misinterpret. He could present the case he was arguing against in very striking and persuasive terms.

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, & magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

The sword sung on the barren heath
The sickle in the fruitful field
The sword he sung a song of death
But could not make the sickle yield

— William Blake

#poetry #WilliamBlake

Stories of William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and the original home of Royal Doulton had me "doing the Lambeth Walk" last week! FULL SET:
https://www.pauldownsphoto.com/gallery/30922/Doing%20The%20Lambeth%20Walk%2020-05-2023
#London #Photography #Lambeth #CharlieChaplin #WilliamBlake

#WilliamBlake, The Lords #Prayer https://invidious.sethforprivacy.com/watch?v=uoYOkMeKEK4

#Christian #Catholic #humanism #awakeningconsciousness
#antifascist #liberation

🎧 William Blake⁠ forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. ⁠Steve Dempsey⁠, author of ⁠Fearful Symmetries⁠, guides us through Blake’s life, ⁠mythology⁠, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. Listen http://magethepodcast.com/fearful-symmetries-the-cosmology-of-william-blake-with-steve-dempsey/ #magetheascension #williamblake #rpg

@MikeMorris one of the #FeelGood #journalists, #influencers, #bloggers or #TVShows should run with this #awesome post.

I’m so #happy and #inspired to hear this! 🙏🏼👋🏼😄

#sister #fate #poetry #WilliamBlake #notes