The changing butterfly

Before class thoughts:

• Do NOT use the word "like" or "stuff" in our presentations.
• The term paper is worth 100 points.  Sam asked if that was part of our presentation grade, which it is not, it is a completely independent grade.
• We must have about 25 to 30 blog entries, however, if we have 15 awesome blog entries it will be accepted.  We can do many blogs at the end of the semester, they just have to be good quality.
• Final paper over 3 under 100.  Due the same day as our presentation.
• Copy of our paper must be posted to our blog.
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The end of the end: Notes for November 15th, Tuesday.

1.) Jennifer's Blog  http://jennythornburgsmyths.wordpress.com/

• Has an amazing title. Myth and the Word Made Flesh.  Homophobia is always recognized with speragmos.  It is also sacramental.
• Sacrifice comes from fice- to make something sacred.
• Requirement of the books, deface them with underlining.  Make them un-returnable.
• The most important line of the Magus Page 311 or page 333 "All that is past, possesses the present".  How does ending where we began stress this one sentence?  whatever happens here now, is essentially what happened in the past, in the Norwegian forest.
• Masque-theatrical term that refers to a type of theater, performances that we put on in people's houses, characterized by events that took place in mythology.  It was not supposed to be thought of as real, because people were dressed up, and people coming back from the past.
•  Pablo Picasso-Nicholas 
• Myth is the precedent behind every action.  You are carrying with you everything of the past.  The same thing as "all that is past, possesses the present".  We carry the great present of the past everywhere with us.
• Abby writes "History" on the background, his tory- his story.  Whereas if a women were to make history it would not end up there.
• Our lives are quotidian, we watch tv, and we usually talk jibberish.  For us the world is compellingly present.  All the mythological and historical pressure is there.  It is known as the collective unconscious.
• There is a trap door to remember when we were born, and to remember everyone else's conscious since the beginning of time. The only way to make people conscious of their collective unconscious is through shock.
• Our job is to wake up, and realize what is happening in our collective unconscious.
• Jennifer has pulled a quote from Calasso and put it in her blog about the Magus.  She also referenced Jerrod "not only is he humanity, he is fallen humanity"
• It has all been planned, including the rock.  We need to know the stories so that we can see the blueprint of our own story. We know that Nick is a narcissist.  Every man must make a trip to see Persephone before they can go on living.

2.) Darrell Blog  http://darrellsblog-unknown.blogspot.com/

• The truth beyond magic.  The only reality is magic, the only reality is fiction.
• Devita is Professor Sexson's grandaughter, Devi is also a name referenced in Darrell's blog.

3.)  Jerrod's blog  http://ohmygodzjerrod.blogspot.com/

• A man dying of terminal cancer wrote to Fowle's that he hated the answer.  He wrote to this man that they got back together.  To an awful woman the same day he wrote that they never got back together.
• In all other classes, the answer is right or wrong.  In this class, every answer is a kind of death.  
• Jerrod writes that the ending of the book gives us the ability to ponder the characters.  The ending plants a seed, that gives the reader the ability to let the story bloom.  The story will remain in our minds, it has been made immortal.  It provokes us to keep thinking about it.

4.) Rosemary's blog  http://rosemarysmythologicaladventure.blogspot.com/

• The thing that makes us neurotic is the insistence that we are not.
• Rosemary says that Nick will continue on because it is all about himself, that is why he is narcissistic.
• Sexson's daughter says "Dad, it is not about you".  The collective unconscious is impersonal.  "it is not about you"  It is about every person. Nick continued because he wanted it to be all about him, but he only ended up alone with all the magic gone.
• Madi disappears, but she becomes something far more amazing, fantastic, magical. 
• Zeus says you do not want to see me as I really am because you cannot really see. She was not able to hold the reality of everything, so she exploded.  Do not consider the fruit of action-the bub of agita?  Do not do things for a reward, the only reason for action is for the action itself for it is divine.
• Do not read this book for an A, read it to be divine, to understand reality.  One by one they closed their eyes because they were not ready for the divine of what really was.  

5.) Parker's Blog  http://parkersmythology.blogspot.com/

• Diving into the depths, exactly as Nick does. "about it's veiled implications"-->Sam's idea of Harry Potter and JK Rowling and the veil that Serious falls through, joining the past, the present, the future, the collective unconscious.
• Detail is a construction of deconstruction.??
• The deadly female, the negative archetype of the female.  Often portrayed as spiders.  The black widow waits for the male to come to her web "and uses him for some purpose"-Teresa.  Women are spiders.
• Mae West-very sultry seductive woman, "common up and see me sometime", "is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" She was the devouring female, she gives them a good time then she devoured them.
• We must quote a passage from the book in our final paper.  
• The theme of the Magus is the narcissism of Nick.

6.) Madi's Blog  http://madismythology.blogspot.com/

• Stranger than Fiction- about a man who hears his life being written out.  Reminds me of the uncollective conscious,  we are all just characters of a novel.
• It is all the same, God, the gods, afterlife.  It is all a circle, from the beginning we have just been characters, reliving the original book.  No one knows where it starts, no one knows the end.  We are all part of it, every religion, every story, the universe, nothing, and everything.  It is all the same.
• Get up and act, every movement must become a movement of the sacred.  Do it in the remembrance of the sacred.
• Taoism-religious or philosophic tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the tao, which is the mechanism of everything that exists.
• Mircae Eliade and the story of the butterfly.