Cormac McCarthy's Occultism

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  • Опубліковано 19 чер 2023
  • Cormac McCarthy studied occultism throughout his entire life. Today we will be tracking the influences of the occult in his work!
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  • @WriteConscious
    @WriteConscious  11 місяців тому

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  • @ZiggaRats
    @ZiggaRats 7 місяців тому +5

    Jeffers also built a stone tower.
    I consider this channel to be your stone tower, and I appreciate all the work that you're putting into it.
    Sincere thanks, and much respect from Las Cruces

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  6 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for those beautiful words! I hope in the decades to come I can really make an impact with this stuff here. If not for the collective for my own consciousness!

  • @TH3F4LC0Nx
    @TH3F4LC0Nx 11 місяців тому +5

    We need a video on the Archatron! That passage at the end of Cities of the Plain was some of the most occult shit I'd ever read. 😂 And the fact that he brought it back in Stella Maris makes me really believe that he believed in some kind of demiurgical force behind all that we see.

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  11 місяців тому +1

      Wow. Thanks for bringing this up! On my list!

  • @BigPhilly15
    @BigPhilly15 10 місяців тому +7

    Didn’t realize he was into hallucinogens but kudos to him for tripping yet writing readable books unlike Pynchon.

  • @Phoenixx42
    @Phoenixx42 11 місяців тому +1

    Wow that is a lot of info I didn't know about him. Very very cool, thanks for sharing.

  • @nounxyz
    @nounxyz 11 місяців тому +3

    Really interesting. Thanks for your work on this.
    From my own perspective as theologian misfit I think we all bring a bit of our own perspective to McCarthy. Because of this I still find his work to contain a strong grounding of the hope of a redemption of some sort although it is a faith tried in the crucible of doubt to paraphrase Dostoyevsky. It’s a struggle through a very real darkness but something is there at the end.
    To quote black in The sunset Limited:
    “I would say that the thing we are talkin about is Jesus, but it is Jesus understood as that gold at the bottom of the mine,” .

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  11 місяців тому

      For sure! However, the hope of redemption is fundamental to most world religions including the occult!

    • @nounxyz
      @nounxyz 11 місяців тому +1

      Indeed. Let’s ride on in hope.

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  11 місяців тому

      lol

    • @BigPhilly15
      @BigPhilly15 10 місяців тому

      I feel this way too. As a Catholic, I read The Road, despite its bleakness, as a hopeful pro life allegory. That’s what makes great literature truly great: the multi-facets.
      Also, I do see the occult aspects which I think add to the dark, mystical language and a sense of menace.

  • @Oldman808
    @Oldman808 11 місяців тому +3

    The old crone in Suttree . . .

  • @wesleysullivan8047
    @wesleysullivan8047 8 місяців тому +2

    I have read The Tales by Gurdjieff. I can see some of his ideas bleeding through in Blood Meridian. Especially the Quote from the Hermit about Man the Machine. Blood Meridian is certainly one of my favorite books of all time. I wonder if the Judge with his 'luminous head' does not represent something lunar? Thanks for the video.

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  6 місяців тому +1

      Great thoughts! Just reread that quote. Very powerful stuff!

  • @jamescareyyatesIII
    @jamescareyyatesIII 7 місяців тому +2

    Northern New Mexico is the most occult place in tbe United States.

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  7 місяців тому +2

      For sure!

    • @ZiggaRats
      @ZiggaRats 7 місяців тому

      The dirty south has its own charm as well. Carlsbad Caverns is a wild experience!
      I always wonder how the first Europeans reacted when they came upon White Sands. It looks like God missed a spot. Like he/she/it forgot to put anything there, lol

  • @rainbowsprankles6085
    @rainbowsprankles6085 2 місяці тому

    Heraclitus as the first occultist😂

  • @ryanrichard2736
    @ryanrichard2736 9 місяців тому +1

    How brave to do this after his death. Bravo

  • @wesb.8153
    @wesb.8153 25 днів тому

    Always thought he was probably a freemason

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene 3 місяці тому

    I believe Jung wore a gnostic symboled ring. Is this true? Or was it masonic?

    • @WriteConscious
      @WriteConscious  3 місяці тому +1

      Yup gnosis.org/jung.ring.html

    • @penelopegreene
      @penelopegreene 3 місяці тому

      @@WriteConscious I asked this because a Latin American writer once wrote a memoir about his personal friendships with Jung and Hesse. It was a slender volume, more long biographic essays than a true memoir, but there is mention of the ring. I remember the writer saying that for him Jung would always remain a kind of restless, unsatisfied wanderer, a roving conjurer and alchemist.