🚀 I would love to help you understand McCarthy’s novels better in my Cormac McCarthy course & book club. On my Substack, you can access the Blood Meridian For Writers Course and McCarthy’s unreleased interview. Click here to join: writeconscious.substack.com 📖Explore over 200 of McCarthy’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/e20249... 👕Want to REP some McCarthy streetwear? Go here! writeconscious.com 📚Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious 📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619... 🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com 🤔My Favorite Cormac McCarthy Novel: amzn.to/3TVdzCQ Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
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
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!
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.
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.
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,” .
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.
Believe it or not, I am a real living stone mason in this year 2024. Right now I am building a “haha” wall which is kind of a half retaining wall half stone fence. It’s about 2.5 feet wide by 5 ft tall by 165 feet long. That’s about 40 tons. I am on foot 120. Taking on and doing a project like this alone has some profound parallels with writing. I hope to capture some of them in the book I am currently working towards finishing which is about my development as a stone mason. I have only read “The Road” by McCarthy. I thought it was okay. I am more of a Harry Crews fan. Which McCarthy book would you recommend to me next? There’s a great book by Mitch Horowitz called “Modern Occultism”. I listened to it several times while I was working with stone. It’s a history of the Occult in North America. To my surprise part of the book was about William S. Burroughs and the kind of experimental art he was doing and why. Like McCarthy he was also strongly influenced by Spengler and the Occult. I’ve never read the whole Decline of the West, but I read some parts that were deeply inspiring. It makes me want to revisit that book. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am interested in what you are doing.
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
@@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.
🚀 I would love to help you understand McCarthy’s novels better in my Cormac McCarthy course & book club. On my Substack, you can access the Blood Meridian For Writers Course and McCarthy’s unreleased interview. Click here to join: writeconscious.substack.com
📖Explore over 200 of McCarthy’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books
Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/e20249...
👕Want to REP some McCarthy streetwear? Go here! writeconscious.com
📚Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious
📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619...
🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com
🤔My Favorite Cormac McCarthy Novel: amzn.to/3TVdzCQ
Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
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
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!
Didn’t realize he was into hallucinogens but kudos to him for tripping yet writing readable books unlike Pynchon.
Haha, exactly
HEY HEY HEY YOU BACK OFF PYNCHON.
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.
Wow. Thanks for bringing this up! On my list!
May I get the list of books referenced in this specific video?
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.
Great thoughts! Just reread that quote. Very powerful stuff!
Wow that is a lot of info I didn't know about him. Very very cool, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the support!
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,” .
For sure! However, the hope of redemption is fundamental to most world religions including the occult!
Indeed. Let’s ride on in hope.
lol
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.
Believe it or not, I am a real living stone mason in this year 2024. Right now I am building a “haha” wall which is kind of a half retaining wall half stone fence. It’s about 2.5 feet wide by 5 ft tall by 165 feet long. That’s about 40 tons. I am on foot 120. Taking on and doing a project like this alone has some profound parallels with writing. I hope to capture some of them in the book I am currently working towards finishing which is about my development as a stone mason.
I have only read “The Road” by McCarthy. I thought it was okay. I am more of a Harry Crews fan. Which McCarthy book would you recommend to me next?
There’s a great book by Mitch Horowitz called “Modern Occultism”. I listened to it several times while I was working with stone. It’s a history of the Occult in North America. To my surprise part of the book was about William S. Burroughs and the kind of experimental art he was doing and why. Like McCarthy he was also strongly influenced by Spengler and the Occult. I’ve never read the whole Decline of the West, but I read some parts that were deeply inspiring. It makes me want to revisit that book.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am interested in what you are doing.
The old crone in Suttree . . .
yup
Always thought he was probably a freemason
Northern New Mexico is the most occult place in tbe United States.
For sure!
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
I believe Jung wore a gnostic symboled ring. Is this true? Or was it masonic?
Yup gnosis.org/jung.ring.html
@@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.
How brave to do this after his death. Bravo
Heraclitus as the first occultist😂