spiritual regression

[Ian Livingston]

I like the term, resonance, for artistic material that appeals to
non-rational, or preconscious, experience. Great poetry resonates at
non-rational levels of cognizance, even when it appeals to the amniotic
mimesis of formless meditation.


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:21 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say me means tapping into an ancient root, psychically.  Humans
> resist acknowledging they have pre-human instincts.  Even fetuses dream.
>
> On Sunday, March 31, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>
>> "Now it is only by rare accidents of spiritual regression that poets make
>> their lines magically potent in the ancient sense."
>>
>> -Robert Graves
>>
>>
>>
>> What does he mean by regression?
>>
>
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