James Hillman re words

[Doug Millison]

... on that world-as-text tip:

"We need to recall the angel aspect of the word,
recognizing words as independent carriers of soul
between people. We need to recall that we do not make
words up or learn them in school, or ever have them
fully under control. Words, like angels, are powers
which have invisible power over us. They are personal
presences which have whole mythologies, genders,
genealogies, (etymologies concerning origins and
creations), histories and vogues; and their own
guarding, blaspheming, creating, and annhilating
effects. For words are pursuers. This aspect of the
word transcends their nominalistic definitions and
contexts and evokes in our souls a universal
resonance. Without the inherence of soul in words,
speech would not move us, word would not provide forms
for carrying our lives and giving sense to our
deaths."

-James Hillman
Re-Visioning Psychology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060905638/qid=1029374042/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3654263-3760027

"Finally somebody has begun to talk out loud about
what must change, and what must be left behind, if we
are to navigate the perilous turn of this millennium
and survive."
--Thomas Pynchon (in his support quote for We've Had a
Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting
Worse</a> by James Hillman and Michael Ventura http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062506617/ref=pd_sim_books/002-3654263-3760027

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