Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.782

   Plato's concept of the archetype, the transpersonal, non-material "ideas" that govern the actual ideas and things that we experience, has gained new favor in modern thinking about the perceptual process. Instead of theorizing that our perceptual mechanisms "photograph" what is out there, modern work has forced the theory that we already "know" or "suppose" what it is that we are trying to perceive, and then we search and analyze data bits according to their significance and fit to what we are attempting to "perceive." Meaning and intention are more significant to perception, in modern theory, …

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-dream-life-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

2. 02 · gutenberg0.778

   Bent as we are on studying religion’s existential conditions, we cannot possibly ignore these pathological aspects of the subject. We must describe and name them just as if they occurred in non‐religious men. It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeing an object to which our emotions and affections are committed handled by the intellect as any other object is handled. The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be _sui generis_ and un…

   gutenberg/PG-621-the-varieties-of-religious-experience-a-study-in-human-nature/PG-621.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.775

   Another theory, somewhat more respectable, attributes such things to Allegory. It was a play of poetic minds, say these theorists; a shadowing forth, in allegorical fable, in personification and visual form, of what such poetic minds had known and felt of this Universe. Which agrees, add they, with a primary law of human nature, still everywhere observably at work, though in less important things, That what a man feels intensely, he struggles to speak out of him, to see represented before him in visual shape, and as if with a kind of life and historical reality in it. Now doubtless there is su…

   gutenberg/PG-1091-on-heroes-hero-worship-and-the-heroic-in-history/PG-1091.txt

4. 04 · yt0.773

   So, when I'm asked about the Christian religion, I say, "Well, look, it's the only one that has a very complex creed as far as I'm aware, the only major religion that has this this very complex creed, which involves a lot of truth propositions." >> Mhm. But I think that the attitude that is proper to a religion is a truth disposition. And that is a process, it involves all of you, and it is never-ending, and it is profoundly relational. I want to come on if I we could to the kind of Christian myth specifically, but just just to make sure that that our audience is with us on the kind of f…

   yt/TDC9W1K4Rso-iain-mcgilchrist-how-to-escape-left-brain-thinking/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.770

   IT IS NECESSARY THAT SCRYING, VISIONS, ASPECTING AND ALL OTHER APPARENT VISIONS OF OUR LORD AND LADY BE QUESTIONED. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR REBIRTH THAT WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT OUR OWN WISHFUL THINKING OR PRIDE, IF THERE BE THE LEAST DOUBT, THE VISION MUST BE DENIED. If a true vision is denied by the initiated, the Lady will underline the truth in the vision in an unquestionable form. If this underlining comes as a punishment, it is still a small price to pay when compared to the consequences of a false vision. IFEVER ANYOF THETRIBE NEEDA HOUSEOR LANDAND NONEWILL SELL, THEN CRAFTMAY BEUSED TO…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-craft-ethics-j-crowley-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

6. 06 · yt0.769

   You have the translation from Dennis Redmond, which is a little bit less literary, but also more can can be not always, but can be more accurate. Oops, not this one. Okay, this is Let me at his table of contents. I'm just going to look at his um Yeah. Self-reflection of thought. Let's see if this is the same section. Yeah. So, this is actually we'll see a kind of a significantly different. The power of consciousness reaches all the way into its own deception. It is rationally cognizable where a detached rationality has run away from itself becomes false turns truly into mythology is a little b…

   yt/88CFLcDqNak-chris-cutrone-lecture-on-adorno-s-negative-dialectics-2/transcript.txt

7. 07 · blog0.768

   Hence, it is arguable that Schier and Wollheim mistook a disanalogy between pictures and words for a disanalogy between pictures and conventional signs in general. (3) invites two questions. First, what explains the fact that a picture has a particular denotation, e.g., that Goya’s portrait denotes the Duke of Wellington? Second, denotation is a relation—the relation between a name and its bearer, or between a predicate and the members of its extension. So Goodman’s theory also faces the question raised earlier about resemblance theories of depiction, regarding pictures of fictional individual…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/depiction.md

8. 08 · yt0.762

   [Music] So today we're going to delve a little bit more deeply into the realm of symbolic representation. And I'll I'll tell you what I think I'm doing and uh then I'll show you a bunch of examples of it. Then I want to tell you a couple more stories. And so I'll tell you the stories in the second half of the class. So you know it was Carl Jung who popularized and differentiated the idea of archetypes. They weren't his idea. Platonic forms are an are archetypes essentially. Um ideals are an archetype. And so but Jung the thing that I think he did that that hadn't been done before was to sugges…

   yt/yXZSeiAl4PI-2017-maps-of-meaning-09-patterns-of-symbolic-representation/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.761

   And that, too, is an intuitive way of saying, "Yeah, however rigorously we can define it or defend it, something like this does seem to go on in our minds at certain kinds of moments of experience." We just feel differently looking at a certain work of art or a certain landscape, let's say, than we feel looking at other sorts of things. Maybe we don't know why. Maybe we doubt that the difference is absolute in the way that Kant wants to insist it is. Nevertheless, we have in tendency feelings of this kind and we should acknowledge them because again, at least in terms of a weak understanding o…

   yt/mT7roDHocuc-5-the-idea-of-the-autonomous-artwork/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.761

    Logos was fine for logic chopping for, you know, an argument in court. Well, I think he owes me 30 whatever and but no, he says 20 and let's use logos. But to actually understand what life is about and what we're doing here and you know the meanings that come to us through experience, you require myths and stories and the the right hemisphere is able to understand that. It's interesting that words that once were neutral or actually pointed to the greater truths have come in modern world to mean lies. And that just tells you a lot about the way we now think. >> So myth used to be the grea…

    yt/AZj01XPMIyA-648-civilization-s-imbalance-and-restoring-the-humanities-th/transcript.txt