🚀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/e20249fda1 👕Want to REP some McCarthy streetwear? Go here! writeconscious.com Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious 📚Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious 📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e 🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com 🤔My Favorite Cormac McCarthy Novel: amzn.to/3TVdzCQ
3 reasons come to mind: He comes from an era that deeply valued and prioritized privacy of personal life & an air of mystery within celebrity status. Secondly, I believe he wanted to let the art speak for itself & let each consumer have their own individual experience with the materials. Thirdly, as a practitioner of occult arts (not confirmed, I know but there is some strong evidence for it) you never reveal your secrets or interior machinations-this secrecy is powerful.
Great video mate. I appreciate you feeding of my comment, was hoping to talk more on this in the live stream but my phone died. There’s definitely an interesting tension you’ve raised- the tension between moral codes and fathers/father figures. So much of Cormacs novels are focused on the physically transgressive, yet his prose, while radical, is arcane. It evokes the highest kind of moral rhetoric, yet the content is notably devoid of those morals
It is devoid of those morals, and perhaps it's because Cormac is emulating the father figure we all have been affected by - live by the moral code I cannot live by - the father is inherently hypocritical, due to the disconnect between body/spirit and society, and maybe he's portraying this unconsciously but it is definitely something to think about as we move forward into Cormac and other authors. This experience is universal and permeates everything we do.
@@WriteConscious spirit is not distinguishable from mind in the German language Given the absence of internal monologue and psychology in most of his novels, is there also some play on the theme of the absence or negation of the spirit in his novels? Certainly pattern changes in the final three novels. The Road is Cormac accepting a belief in the spirit, proved by the transference of the fathers martyred spirit. This allows him to do Stella Maris- a dialogue with a psychologist
Writing is subconscious-much to analyze, impossible to explain beyond “I did it.” We can terse and express it in some fashion, but to the core, how we mode ourselves in our writing is an intimacy, soulful, and heavily conscious process for the grander works out there. Retaining that sense of peace is something we filter in our latter conversations, curating ourselves. Writing is our open vein, the ichor spilling over the altar as we scrutinize, lambast, and extrapolate ourselves in one fashion or another. No need to shiv even further.
I thought I commented on this video. But I’ll leave another one with the same content. I think McCarthy was one of those guys who had such a unique view of the world, he didn’t know how to share it with other people. Also, there’s the fact that he felt his books should speak for themselves, no use for him to add on anything. He respected the relationship between author and reader.
Is there anything out there about his love of movies besides the wild bunch or apocalypse now? Some dude on Reddit said he would recommend Lawrence Krause films about science/nature for Cormac and they had apparently watched most of them. Idk if it is true, but sounded legit.
There will be stuff on here soon. I have a meditation for authors course coming that will include yoga to be able to get into full lotus for meditation
Wesley G Morgan's "McCarthy's High School Years" introduces this. Then, follow-up articles ("Cormac McCarthy 1951" is one of them that goes pretty deep) go deeper into the school paper articles and interview people he knew back then. There are also some deep dives in books about this time with random, unique accounts. Funny you mentioned the sister's quote; I just remembered his dad was also the editor for the "Yale Law Review" during his time in high school. I also remembered his aspiration in high school was to become a "good shortstop and become filthy rich" which would have been a good thing to put into the video on Cormac making millions!
Was McCarthy aware that Carl Jung worked with Wolfgang Pauli to mathematize their theory of synchronicity? The 'Kekulé Problem' was all about the unconscious as a machine for running an animal, but Pauli was Einstein's idea of a genius, and he came to the realization that all causality is an observer based synchronicity. Math, even the math that describes physics, is a-causal. This becomes most evident with negative square roots. They're necessary for basic engineering, but how do they come about? The square root of 36 is either 6 or -6. So where did the square root of -36 come from? To preserve causality, we can say that there are higher dimensions, but the rockstars of high energy physics are starting to say spacetime is doomed. There are now mathematical objects with potentially infinite dimensions that are used to interpret data coming back from the Large Hadron Collider. It's nuts.
@@zachbuschman3105 The absolute substance? All interactions in nature involve an exchange of timeless photons, absorbed or emitted. Just like water can navigate a maze through the principle of least action, light underpins all computations, maybe even hypercomputation. Light is omnipotent, omnipresent. It doesn't have to think or remember anything, but no one can think and remember without generating heat, which is a form of light.
So when we picture a story in our head as we read, don’t we in a sense make it real? Its universe has light, heat, and photons, it’s made of something ,
@@zachbuschman3105 I agree. I avoided using terms like imaginary numbers in my original post and consciousness in my reply to you. I anticipated people thinking, "You're not even wrong." Which is a refrain Pauli coined. Even though he wrote the book on synchronicity and had the same mystical experience as the late mystic Neville Goddard. Neither were aware of each other, but in visions, they both were taught to play a keyboard whose chords were composed of the feelings cultivated from the major events of their lives. Like Kara's coordinates from Battlestar Galactica. 😆 Whenever an artist wants to create something new, they have to draw upon their own subjectivity. It's starting to become obvious to people like Wolfram and Masahiro Hotta that even entropy is subjective. We see the world we do because of the kind of observers we are. Because we evolved on the same planet, we assume teleporting energy would violate the second law of thermodynamics. But Masahiro Hotta had enough imagination to prove otherwise. After 15 years, people are finally accepting that all experimental evidence says he's right. 🤷♂️
🚀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/e20249fda1
👕Want to REP some McCarthy streetwear? Go here! writeconscious.com
Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
📚Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious
📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e
🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com
🤔My Favorite Cormac McCarthy Novel: amzn.to/3TVdzCQ
3 reasons come to mind: He comes from an era that deeply valued and prioritized privacy of personal life & an air of mystery within celebrity status. Secondly, I believe he wanted to let the art speak for itself & let each consumer have their own individual experience with the materials. Thirdly, as a practitioner of occult arts (not confirmed, I know but there is some strong evidence for it) you never reveal your secrets or interior machinations-this secrecy is powerful.
Great video mate. I appreciate you feeding of my comment, was hoping to talk more on this in the live stream but my phone died.
There’s definitely an interesting tension you’ve raised- the tension between moral codes and fathers/father figures. So much of Cormacs novels are focused on the physically transgressive, yet his prose, while radical, is arcane. It evokes the highest kind of moral rhetoric, yet the content is notably devoid of those morals
It is devoid of those morals, and perhaps it's because Cormac is emulating the father figure we all have been affected by - live by the moral code I cannot live by - the father is inherently hypocritical, due to the disconnect between body/spirit and society, and maybe he's portraying this unconsciously but it is definitely something to think about as we move forward into Cormac and other authors. This experience is universal and permeates everything we do.
@@WriteConscious spirit is not distinguishable from mind in the German language
Given the absence of internal monologue and psychology in most of his novels, is there also some play on the theme of the absence or negation of the spirit in his novels?
Certainly pattern changes in the final three novels. The Road is Cormac accepting a belief in the spirit, proved by the transference of the fathers martyred spirit.
This allows him to do Stella Maris- a dialogue with a psychologist
Writing is subconscious-much to analyze, impossible to explain beyond “I did it.” We can terse and express it in some fashion, but to the core, how we mode ourselves in our writing is an intimacy, soulful, and heavily conscious process for the grander works out there. Retaining that sense of peace is something we filter in our latter conversations, curating ourselves. Writing is our open vein, the ichor spilling over the altar as we scrutinize, lambast, and extrapolate ourselves in one fashion or another.
No need to shiv even further.
"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
I thought I commented on this video. But I’ll leave another one with the same content.
I think McCarthy was one of those guys who had such a unique view of the world, he didn’t know how to share it with other people. Also, there’s the fact that he felt his books should speak for themselves, no use for him to add on anything. He respected the relationship between author and reader.
Is there anything out there about his love of movies besides the wild bunch or apocalypse now? Some dude on Reddit said he would recommend Lawrence Krause films about science/nature for Cormac and they had apparently watched most of them. Idk if it is true, but sounded legit.
There’s always a hidden reflection awaiting its chance to shine black upon the world
Good stuff.
Hey where would I be able to get access to your yoga course ?
There will be stuff on here soon. I have a meditation for authors course coming that will include yoga to be able to get into full lotus for meditation
@@WriteConscious awesome thanks
What are your sources for the stories about cormac in high school and his sisters quote?
Wesley G Morgan's "McCarthy's High School Years" introduces this. Then, follow-up articles ("Cormac McCarthy 1951" is one of them that goes pretty deep) go deeper into the school paper articles and interview people he knew back then. There are also some deep dives in books about this time with random, unique accounts. Funny you mentioned the sister's quote; I just remembered his dad was also the editor for the "Yale Law Review" during his time in high school. I also remembered his aspiration in high school was to become a "good shortstop and become filthy rich" which would have been a good thing to put into the video on Cormac making millions!
Alright 👍
Was McCarthy aware that Carl Jung worked with Wolfgang Pauli to mathematize their theory of synchronicity?
The 'Kekulé Problem' was all about the unconscious as a machine for running an animal, but Pauli was Einstein's idea of a genius, and he came to the realization that all causality is an observer based synchronicity.
Math, even the math that describes physics, is a-causal.
This becomes most evident with negative square roots. They're necessary for basic engineering, but how do they come about?
The square root of 36 is either 6 or -6. So where did the square root of -36 come from?
To preserve causality, we can say that there are higher dimensions, but the rockstars of high energy physics are starting to say spacetime is doomed.
There are now mathematical objects with potentially infinite dimensions that are used to interpret data coming back from the Large Hadron Collider.
It's nuts.
I sound like a gamma male. That's why McCarthy didn't want to talk about this stuff. 😂
When you read and picture scenes in your head, what are those scenes made of?
@@zachbuschman3105 The absolute substance?
All interactions in nature involve an exchange of timeless photons, absorbed or emitted. Just like water can navigate a maze through the principle of least action, light underpins all computations, maybe even hypercomputation.
Light is omnipotent, omnipresent. It doesn't have to think or remember anything, but no one can think and remember without generating heat, which is a form of light.
So when we picture a story in our head as we read, don’t we in a sense make it real? Its universe has light, heat, and photons, it’s made of something ,
@@zachbuschman3105 I agree. I avoided using terms like imaginary numbers in my original post and consciousness in my reply to you.
I anticipated people thinking, "You're not even wrong."
Which is a refrain Pauli coined. Even though he wrote the book on synchronicity and had the same mystical experience as the late mystic Neville Goddard.
Neither were aware of each other, but in visions, they both were taught to play a keyboard whose chords were composed of the feelings cultivated from the major events of their lives.
Like Kara's coordinates from Battlestar Galactica. 😆
Whenever an artist wants to create something new, they have to draw upon their own subjectivity.
It's starting to become obvious to people like Wolfram and Masahiro Hotta that even entropy is subjective.
We see the world we do because of the kind of observers we are. Because we evolved on the same planet, we assume teleporting energy would violate the second law of thermodynamics.
But Masahiro Hotta had enough imagination to prove otherwise.
After 15 years, people are finally accepting that all experimental evidence says he's right. 🤷♂️
I was just under the impression that you did all the talking for him
Well, he is dead! And if no one advocates for good literature then we will be where we are right now with the state of education.
“The only people who care about iqs have high iqs” really dumb claim lmao
Says a dude whose name is "Alpha Daddy 69" 🤣
If anything it's the opposite.