LETTER

yet another one that did not make it up from last year

you will read it is from someone I regularly correspond with
I must say that her views of sharing life, the joy she gets from hearing my life, is much reciprocated. There is something liberating about a static view of ones current place. I understand that humans by nature are dynamic and changing, but you must admit a letter, when written with sincerity, is an unchanging glimpse into the character of the writer.
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Patrick; my correspondance, my friend, my colleague

I am so happy to hear from you. I am especially delighted to hear of this -------- character- he seems magnificent ( I wish to meet? someday?). I hope your relationship is not some regurgitation of social stereotypes, but if I know you at all, I'd say definetly no. No to the utmost extent. And good for you either way! Now I'm just babbling.
Incidentally, today someone called me a monster, she said "You monster!" as I was trying to convey my personal affinity to stoic philosophy. Seems a little much don't you think? It isn't all that monsterus to identify ones own emotions, but choose to act with reason and rationale instead. She actually proclaimed this unflattering babel when I stated that I care very little about my daily social interactions as I am quite satisfied with my society of friends and I like my privacy- my seclusion. Still, monster? Me? No.

I am, or rather have been, brushing up on my Carl Jung, whom I've never really liked until now. He's a bit too spiritual perhaps, but a scientist nonetheless. I bring this up because his understanding of archetypes is altogether comprehensive and continually echoes Joseph Campbell. Speaking of spirituality, --------- ---------- came up to visit and we spent the day in the woods tripping on shrooms- we became transcendentalists then which left me with thoughts that my existential self has yet to shake off. Drugs may change me, do they not?
I love to hear of your life. I love reading both the joyus and the unfortunate events and everything in between of your mental status and "feelings" and such. Meanwhile when I don't have your letters to read I've been making soap, essential oils, glycerin, bio fuel and other exciting chemical "operations" as I indulge my thirst for knowledge. Quality stuff I must say. I m happy at the moment which is punctuated by the pleasant weather as you noted. I consider it a good sign that nature effects us so we have not lost our primeval ties. Respondez vous!


PS: I love how Carl Jung speaks;
" Miss Frank Miller is an introvert... Her psychic energy has turned inwards to produce these unconscious archaic residues... her unconscious need to separate and her inability to do so indicate that she too will be 'engulfed in a landslide"


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side notes:


Written also on this envelope were beautiful quotes, I believe that were spoken by Carl Jung
- life is sickness, torture, death, and finally rebirth
-Is God the same as the unconcious then? As self and God are so hard to differentiate!
-It is the aim of anyone seeking wholeness of self
-Better keep the archetyopes of God and the self seperate!
and my favorite
- A numinous expirence of 'something whole' is not only the privilege of shamans and priests


since reading this letter again and again I have looked breifly into the life of Joseph Campbell, and he to me is so many wonderful things. In the preface to his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces "My hope is that a comparative elucidation may contribute to the perhaps not-quite-desperate cause of those forces that are working in the present world for unification, not in the name of some ecclesiastical or political empire, but in the name of human mutual understanding."

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I am sorry it is hard to write with composure now, maybe it is because I have not been in school for a few months, but the more I read about Joseph Campbell the more I love him. A man of letters, a man who reguards myth as a the sacred product of feelings that are universally human, this man is in many ways who I want to be.