Many many years ago, as an impressionable adolescent I came across this poem. It stuck in my mind, probably because of its simple rhythm and repetitive rhyme. It is stuck in my head again like a song but has an ITLADian resonance. I'll only post the first verse because that seems the most relevant.
Dream Within a Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
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This is the blog site for all who are interested in the theory of what may happen to consciousness at the point of death as explained in the books 'Is There Life After Death - The Extraordinary Science Of What Happens When You Die' and The Daemon - A Guide To Your Extraordinary Secret Self
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Below is a link to the National Theatre website. Here you will find a short film featuring myself discussing the time theories of J.W. Dunne:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/50304/time-and-the-conways/play-now-time-and-the-conways.html
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/50304/time-and-the-conways/play-now-time-and-the-conways.html
Signed copies of Anthony's books now available
How would you like your own, personally signed, copies of Is There Life After Death and The Daemon?
Well now you can order copies direct from Anthony Peake and have them shipped to anywhere in the world. Anthony will also write a personalised message should you request it.
All you need to do is log onto:
http://www.anthonypeake.com/pages/booksforsale.htm
and follow the instructions.
Please note that until Arcturus find a United States based publisher the only way that copies of Anthony's latest book, The Daemon, can be purchased is via Amazon and other web-based suppliers.
So why not order it directly from the author .... and have a personalised present for your family and friends ... or even yourself!
Go on, ask your Daemon what it suggests you should do!
Well now you can order copies direct from Anthony Peake and have them shipped to anywhere in the world. Anthony will also write a personalised message should you request it.
All you need to do is log onto:
http://www.anthonypeake.com/pages/booksforsale.htm
and follow the instructions.
Please note that until Arcturus find a United States based publisher the only way that copies of Anthony's latest book, The Daemon, can be purchased is via Amazon and other web-based suppliers.
So why not order it directly from the author .... and have a personalised present for your family and friends ... or even yourself!
Go on, ask your Daemon what it suggests you should do!
The Itladian FORUM
If this is your first visit to this Blogsite may I suggest that you check out my FORUM first. This will ease you into some of the concepts and ideas that are debated on this site. This can be found at: http://www.anthonypeake.com/forum. If you like what you see there please register and join in.
Woodsprite has also set up a really interesting Itladian photo community at http://www.flickr.com/groups/itlad . Check this out ... shows what Itladians get up to when we get together ... not all deep philosophical discussions but lots of fun! Maybe join in there as well!
Woodsprite has also set up a really interesting Itladian photo community at http://www.flickr.com/groups/itlad . Check this out ... shows what Itladians get up to when we get together ... not all deep philosophical discussions but lots of fun! Maybe join in there as well!
Listen to former BBC radio presenter Guy Leigh interviewing Anthony Peake - click below
Evidence For CTF? (see posting 19th February 2008)
This is the song that I believe was the last thing I heard in my previous life. For a full explanation check out my posting of 19th February 2008). It is called Round of Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeeRt6owN0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeeRt6owN0
Some Interesting Links that are worth checking out
Link To Blogged
Other CTF Links
As well as this site there are two others that may be worth taking a look at. I have a MYSPACE site that has a slightly different approach - and contains some amusing photographs:
http://www.myspace.com/cheat_the_ferryman
More importantly I have set up a site on LIBRARY THING. For those of you with a love of books (all of you I would suspect) may consider joining this excellent one. On the site I have set up a 'Cheating The Ferryman' discussion group. I have done very little on this at the moment. However if you join you could really help me by putting a review of ITLAD on there:
http://www.librarything.com/groups.php?group=cheatingtheferryman&sent=1
http://www.myspace.com/cheat_the_ferryman
More importantly I have set up a site on LIBRARY THING. For those of you with a love of books (all of you I would suspect) may consider joining this excellent one. On the site I have set up a 'Cheating The Ferryman' discussion group. I have done very little on this at the moment. However if you join you could really help me by putting a review of ITLAD on there:
http://www.librarything.com/groups.php?group=cheatingtheferryman&sent=1
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19 comments:
Woodsprite: Thank you for this Edgar Allen Poe reference.
Poe is one of many people I intended to post about, so thank you for saving me the job.
As well as Dream within a Dream, amongst many others, it is little known that he wrote an essay poem in 1848 entitled Eureka: A Prose Poem (subtitled "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe"), which predated the Big Bang Theory by 80 years and included much of the Cosmological theory that Georges Lemaître and Fred Hoyle et al, were to espouse almost a century later.
In the piece he also gave one of the very first reasonable solutions to Olbers’ Paradox that Tony and I have banged on about on here sometime ago.
> Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allen Poe <
Poe ridiculed and eschewed the ‘scientific method’ in Eureka and instead wrote from pure intuition. For this reason, he considered it a work of art, not science, but insisted that it was still true and considered it to be his career masterpiece.
Interestingly Eureka was criticised by Scientists as being "full of scientific errors" as it suggested an opposition to Newtonian principles regarding the density and rotation of planets, which modern day Cosmologists are now saying was actually correct.
Poe was a man well ahead of his time, thank you Di.
Glad to be of assistance!
*smile*
Woodsprite: Oh, and of course, he was a Temporal Lobe Epileptic too!
Karl: I thought I'd read that somewhere.
For me he seems to be one of the influences in my own life who crop up like characters in Antony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" - an ITLADian title if ever there was one!
Woodsprite: Ah! "Dance To The Music Of Time", from the Nicolas Poussin painting, yes!
I would recommend you read "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl (and also his "The Dante Club")
Karl: As if I needed encouragement to read more books!
Thanks Karl. My book list is growing well *grin*
Hi woodsprite!
( a ghazal)
How to comprehend? Her raspy breathing stopped.
A fever penned her frail end, then stopped.
Her small, steel wristwatch is still ticking on the table.
The clock does not pretend her heart has stopped.
Her visa bill is back, it snooped here late last month.
This cruel computer-trend – it must be stopped.
The house-keys on her chain, rest here inside the drawer.
She tied up each loose end, coughed dry, then stopped.
Her embroidered button-box, a needle and red silk
can’t mend her threadbare gasp that broke, then stopped.
The shelf, my sweeping hand, her photo’s shattered frame;
the face of my best friend has crashed and stopped.
If the body is fuse wire, does electricity live on,
did she ascend before the power stopped?
This ghazal is a letter, a prayer torn from the book.
Send it, Bonehead, before your hand is stopped...
seems silly but...
I had planned to feature Edgar Allan Poe in The Daemon. I had read in secondary sources that he was, indeed, a temporal lobe epileptic. However after scan reading a couple of his biographies I could find no evidence of this.
I was particularly interested in Poe's fascination with doppelgangers and doubles. Clearly this was a very popular literary form at that time but nevertheless Iwonder if some of it was written from experience.
Off on a slight tangent I have been told that Robert Howard of The Conan stories was a TLEr and that he stated that his storiesere dictated to him.
Can any of you guys out there confirm this?
WOODSPRITE! I just now came upon this, and at first was sure that I had posted this unconsciously; I even checked for my name and found yours. As a teenager I loved Poe's poetry, and this was my own favorite. Do you know his poem, "Alone" which begins, "From childhood's hour, I have not seen as others saw. . " It speaks of always seeing "a daemon in my view", and when I found Tony I thought I'd refound this poem too. Peake was a circling back to age 14 for me.
Oh, KLLM; just now read your Eureka commentary. That you would know this! My father's obsession. Uncanny, quite movingly odd. Yes, Poe was an American reverie of the future. He is very Daemon-like, a man of Peake, and acquainted with Peake.
Susan Marie: WOW! Was your Father interested in Poe and Eureka then?
Oh, yes; He loved Poe, loved Eureka, introduced me to it when I was 14; spoke of it as you do.
Susan Marie: Amazing, well he must have been a great man anyway, being your Father, but any man who appreciates the advanced genius of Poe and especially Eureka has my respect.
Susan Marie: I think there must be a subconscious affinity between the people who post on here. Even though we are so disparate as individuals with definite interests and widely different life paths, we seem to share an esoteric collective unconscious. I love this - it makes me feel at home! I rarely have the opportunity to express this - in my day to day life I worry that people wouldn't understand, or think me odd. I've also learned to keep a lot of things quiet because people might suspect me of showing off!
And I echo Karl's comment about Poe and your father!
Thank you, as you echo my own thoughts, and I have often noticed that Tony seems to have drawn to him a group of people who are brilliant, but in some sense have a hidden undercurrent, which responds to his own Daemon, I would say. I have often felt that my own father - who suffered for being a highly unusual person, with a wide range of abilities and genius - has appeared again, in Tony and in Karl, as if coming up again to the surface from some dark well of the past . Oh, that last did not sound too good, I am actually having a horrific day, but did want to thank you, once again Woodsprite , for placing these beautiful lines here.
Susan Marie: I'm sorry you're having a bad day! Maybe I was inspired to leave the quotation here to bring you comfort and if so, I'm very glad to have done so. *hug*
Thank you so much, you're very kind, and yes, it is a help.
SUSAN MARIE: I hope your day improved. I hope that this blog acts as a counterpoint to life's problems.
DI: I am in total agreement with regard to your comment about a 'drawing together of like-minded spirits'. I know from emails that I receive that as well as the regulars who post on this blog there are many more who are "supporters in the shadows". I am sad that they do not feel that they wish to place comments and postings but that is their option. I know that they to receive great support from reading the fascinating comments found on here.
We have something quite magical here and I am both honoured and humbled that I started it all. I am sure that from this tiny acorn massive oaks will grow!!!
*waves at the 'supporters in the shadows'*
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