IAmPoeticise - Blog by Paul Bergeron

Media Echos - Haunting Echos from Medias Past

2015-10-18T15:59:00.004-07:00

Media Echos - a digital album that started coming together in May 2015, when I had the idea to create a concept album around echos from the past.

The Start of the Media Echos idea came to me as I was creating a Tonepoem out of a popular Ray Bradbury story put on tv in the 1980's called, "The Chicago Abyss" and I titled the piece "Dangerous Memory."

The initial idea behind creating the tonepoems was to reduce the tv shows, speeches and so on to their basic elements. Basically to highlight the archetypal arrangement in the pieces. Not all the tonepoems follow this formula, but many do. They are created to promote thought, to challenge bias, or even simply for fun. :). Fair warning though, the pieces echo sentiments from the heads of folks like Ray Bradbury, Martin Luther King, etc...and as such, it might be too challenging for some people. Such folks should stick to top 40 and avoid music like this. If on the other hand this resonates with you, then you have found a treasure trove of "Dangerous Philosophy" and "Dangerous Memory."

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Tonepoems - Poetic Soundscapes made by mashing up a variety of media from such iconic sources as: Ray Bradbury, The Twilight Zone, Logans Run, Soylent Green, Martin Luther King, Roald Dahl and More!

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The SAFP Fund - Save A Feral Poet!

2015-10-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

. . . ~> As I am sure you know, with daily cannabis consumption, a variety of snacks, both fried and sugared, as well as all that is needed to create a suitable "natural" style habitat for the often outspoken, occasionally endangered, feral Poet, it turns out money is better than a smile and even a hearty well intended, very warm, and absolutely fabulous handshake. Sure the silent admiration could feed entire villages of fashion models, but sadly the feral poet thrives more on money. It is no more than the natural pecker order of things, and as such it cannot be questioned, only faithfully understood in a deep, oh so very deep fashion. Again, to highlight: ~~Natural order~~, accept, profound insight, depth, ~~no question~~, money :D. I thank you in advance and you're welcome, and please do consider giving you're friends the benefit of knowing how much better you now feel and where they can go!

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Why Carl Jung's concept of truth is not tenable

2015-09-22T10:35:00.000-07:00

The quote below is from a gentleman by the name of Erich Fromm. Erich Fromm was a very popular author in his day and wrote a number of books from popular best sellers to more academic works still in use today. In the below quote, taken from the book, Psychoanalysis and Religion, Erich Fromm clearly points out what he sees as significant failings in Jung`s way of thinking.
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Turning now to Jung we find at almost every point the opposite of Freud's views on religion.

Jung begins with a discussion of the general principles of his approach. While Freud,though not a professional philosopher, approaches the problem from a psychological and philosophical angle as William James, Dewey, and Macmurray have done, Jung states in the beginning of his book: "I restrict myself to the observation of phenomena and I refrain from any application of metaphysical or philosophical consideration." He then goes on to explain how, as a psychologist, he then goes on to explain how, as a psychologist, he can analyze religion without application of philosophical considerations. He calls his standpoint "Phenomenological, that is, it is concerned with occurrences, events, experiences, in a word, with facts. Its truth is a fact and not a judgement. Speaking for instance of the motive of the virgin birth, psychology is only concerned with the fact that there is such an idea, but it is not concerned with the question whether such an idea is true or false in any other sense. It is psychologically true in as much as it exists. Psychological existence is subjective in so far as an idea occurs in only one individual. But it is objective in so far as it is established by a society - by a consnsus gentium."

Before I present Jung's analysis of religion a critical examination of these methodological premises seems warranted. Jung's use of the concept of truth is not tenable. He states that "truth is a fact and not a judgement," that "an elephant is true because it exists." But he forgets that truth always and necessarily refers to a judgement and not to a description of a phenomenon which we perceive with our senses and which we denote with a word symbol. Jung then states that an idea is "psychologically true in as much as it exists." But an idea "exists" regardless of whether it is a delusion or whether it corresponds to fact. The existence of an idea does not make it "true" in any sense. Even the practising psychiatrist could not work were he not concerned with the truth of an idea, that Is, with it's relation to the phenomena it tends to portray. Otherwise he could not speak of a delusion or a paranoid system. But Jung's approach is not only untenable from a psychiatric standpoint; he advocates a standpoint of relativism which, though on the surface more friendly to religion than Freud's, is in it's spirit fundamentally opposed to religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism. These consider the striving for truth as one of man's cardinal virtues and obligations and insist that their doctrines whether arrived at by revelation or only by the power of reason are subject to the criterion of truth.

Jung does not fail to see the difficulties of his own position, but the way in which he tries to solve them is unfortunately equally untenable. He tries to differentiate between "subjective" and "objective" existence, in spite of the notoriously slippery quality of these terms. Jung seems to mean that something objective is more valid and true than something that is subjective. His criterion for the difference between subjective and objective depends on whether an idea occurs only to one individual or is established by a society. But have we not been witnesses ourselves of a "folie a millions," of the madness of whole groups in our own age? Have we not seen that millions of people, misguided by their irrational passions, can believe in ideas which are not less delusional and irrational than the products of a single individual? What meaning is there in saying that they are "objective?" The spirit of this criterion for subjective and objective is that of the same relativism which I commented on above. More specifically, it is a sociological relativism which makes social acceptance of an idea the criterion of its validity, truth, or "objectivity."

After discussing his methodological premises, Jung presents his views on the central problem: What is religion? What is the nature of religious experience? His definition is one which he shares with many theologians. It can be summarized briefly in the statement that the essence of the religious experience is the submission to higher powers than ourselves. But we had better quote Jung directly. He states that religion "is a careful and scrupulous observation of what Rudolph Otto aptly named the 'numinosum,' that is, a dynamic existence or effect, not caused by an arbitrary act of will. On the contrary, it seizes and controls the human subject which is always rather its victim than its creator."

Having defined religious experience as being seized by a power outside of ourselves, Jung proceeds to interpret the concept of the unconscious as being a religious one. According to him, the unconscious cannot merely be a part of the individual mind but is a power beyond our control intruding upon our minds. "The fact that you perceive the voice (of the unconscious) in your dream proves nothing at all, for you can also hear voices in the street, which you would not explain as your own. There is only one condition under which you might legitimately call your voice your own, namely, when you assume your conscious personality to be a part of a whole or to be a smaller circle contained in a bigger one. A little bank clerk showing a friend around town, who points out the bank building, saying, 'And here is my bank,' is using the same privilege."

It is a necessary consequence of his definition of religion and of the unconscious that Jung arrives at the conclusion that, in view of the nature of the unconscious mind, the influence of the unconscious mind, the influence of the unconscious upon us "is a basic religious phenomenon." It follows that religious dogma and the dream are both religious phenomena because they both are expressions of our being seized a power outside ourselves. Needless to say, in the logic of Jung's thinking insanity would have to be called an eminently religious phenomenon. Does our examination of Freud's and Jung's attitudes toward religion bear out the popularity held opinion that Freud is a foe and Jung a friend of religion? A brief comparison of their views shows that this assumption is a misleading oversimplification.

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For more about this included tonepoem go to this blog post and this soundcloud page.
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Freud holds that the aim of human development is the achievement of these ideals: knowledge (reason, truth, logos), brotherly love, reduction of suffering, independence, and responsibility. These constitute the ethical core of all great religions on which Eastern and Western culture are based, the teaching of Confucius and Lao-tse, Buddha, the Prophets and Jesus. While there are certain differences of accent among these teachings, e.g., Buddha emphasising reduction of suffering, the Prophets stressing knowledge and justice, and Jesus brotherly love, it is remarkable to what extent these religious teachers are in fundamental agreement about the aim of human development and the norms which ought to guide man. Freud speaks in the name of the ethical core of religion for preventing the full realization of these ethical aims. He explains the theistic-supernatural concepts as stages in human development which were necessary and furthering but which now are no longer necessary and are in fact a barrier to further growth. The statement that Freud is "against" religion is therefore misleading unless we define sharply what religion, or what aspects of religion he is critical of and what aspects of religion he speaks for.

For Jung, religious experience is characterised by a specific kind of emotional experience: surrender to a higher power, whether this power is called God or the unconscious. Undoubtedly this is a true characterisation of a certain type of religious experience - in Christian religions, for instance, it is the core of Luther's or Calvin's teachings - while it contrasts sharply with another type of religious experience, the one, for instance, which is represented by Buddhism. In its relativism concerning truth however, Jung's concept of religion is in contrast to Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity. In there, man's obligation to search for the truth is an integral postulate. Pilate's ironical question "What is the truth?" stands as a symbol of an antireligious attitude from the standpoint not only of Christianity but of all other great religions as well.

Summing up the respective positions of Freud and Jung we may say that Freud opposes religion in the name of ethics - an attitude which can be termed "religious." On the other hand, Jung reduces religion to a psychological phenomenon and at the same time elevates the unconscious to a religious phenomenon.

Erich Fromm
Psychoanalysis and Religion Pg 14
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Why Post?

I have read and studied the works of both Carl Jung and Erich Fromm and hope the above quote from Mr. Fromm on Carl Jung is appreciated?

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A Few Notable Quotes about the Above

"A lie is a lie, even in Latin." - Anonymous

"The truth is the truth even if no one believes it and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it." - Anonymous

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? - Arthur C. Clarke

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working. - Frank Zappa

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
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How Do I Know - Information Towers in the Age of Psycho-Babble

2015-09-18T09:54:00.001-07:00

I was listening to the angst in a monologue on the RT news soundcloud channel with the title: "Online information on the level of valid military intel?" and it got me thinking about the general breakdown of our information structures as we seemingly enter into a more suggestible and superstitious age.

So as I listened to this guy from RT expressing his anxiety over getting poor quality information, instead of "valid military intel," I was inspired to do a Tonepoem on the situation.

My views are not his at all. I do not believe we need "military grade intel". We do need ppl who are disgusted with "military grade intel," and have a tendency to laugh at mass theosophy, history, or any other thot based on ideas of mass. After all, it is much better to grasp things from the point of view of charge.

Tonepoem - How Do I Know?

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Notable Quotable

Winston Churchill had once said: "True genius resides in the capacity for the evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

... I would imagine that Churchill had a great deal of guilt riddled and personally biased military grade intel to deal with? Each and every piece undoubtedly filled with images of salvation and damnation and he needed to evaluate all of that uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information in spite of bias, whether his or others.
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The above Tonepoem How Do I Know? fits nicely with similar Tonepoems I have done about militant guilt riddled revisionist cultures breeding an increasingly paranoid and suspicious psychological type where military grade intel goes all to hell!

https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/sets/ray-bradbury
https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/sets/vd
https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/logansrun-lostfromhome
https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/logansrun-fearfactor
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Hope the mashup is appreciated as an artistic way to represent the frustration and anxiety we all feel over "trusted sources" in our brave new world. As always feed back is appreciated.

Ptolomy Astrology (astronomy domine, Nostrodamus and quizlingism)

2015-08-27T20:02:00.000-07:00

I created some mashups based on an interview with World War Two's greatest astrologer: Dr. John Manolesco.

We have all heard about hitlers fascination with the occult and how it dominated his thots. Astrology was an important part to hitlers military decisions as well as in his personal life. The person that dominated hitlers need for astrological information was Karl Ernst Krafft. Dr John Manolesco was commissioned by the British War office for the express purpose of undermining the astrological insights of hitlers nazi astrologer.

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1). Astrological Warfare (Nazi Astrology in WWZ) - https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/astrologicalwarfare

2). Ptolomy Astrology (a nod to astronomy domine, Nostrodamus and quizlingism) - https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/ptolemyastrology

About the TonePoems above

I have a tremendous interest in relativistic thot and its` history and three things stood out for me in the interviews with Dr. John Manolesco:

1). The phrase `Not the Astrology of Ptolomy` is part of a relativistic trend, similar to non-euclid maths and Hegelian dialectics being used to rewrite history.
2). The claim of Kraffts statistical engineering as being a precursor to the new maths,
3). The successful propaganda campaigns to use twisted astrological information to influence psychologically the german population, and this had a major demoralising factor especially in the later part of the war.
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Some other interesting aspects about the history of John Manolesco and nazi astrology popped up while looking online.

=== Google Search Results ===

Google on Manolesco:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=John+Manolesco - About 3,830 results
A very sad display of information with only 3,830 results.

Google on Krafft:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=karl+ernst+krafft - About 329,000 results
Lots of love and interest with a healthy 329,000 results.

Not being much good at the new maths, and only eye balling the two lone numbers, knowing full well more cunning heads than I are already stacking in more numbers and operators, I still arrive at, in my humble and math simple mind, the stunning conclusion that we have an obvious 10 to 1 disparity! And the scales do not favour John Manolesco, they favour Krafft.

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Wikipedia on Manolesco
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=John+Manolesco - Go to wikipedia and you will see 21st century interest has generated no information on the man, do a search and you get: The page "John Manolesco" does not exist.

Wikipedia on Krafft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_Krafft - lots of internal and external links and this comment: "British intelligence became so concerned at the thought that their opponent's war was being conducted by a mystic that they, for a time, hired the services of astrologer Louis De Wohl. De Wohl was quietly dropped after several months, having failed to procure any hard evidence about Krafft's work." There is no mention of Dr. John Manolesco or what he expressed as being successful propaganda campaigns for the British War office.

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The use of Hegelian dialectics to poetically illustrate a point...

It is interesting to note the quality of information available online, especially in consideration of Hegels simple observation that we have a tendency to twist history to fit the bias of the present. And various groups will twist history in various ways. In his time it was popular to note that both abolitionists and slavers would use the image of Christ to support the bias in their own group, both quoting the bible to support their own ethics.

The internet, particularly at this point, promotes popular idea, idea of mass, not of charge... it is interesting that without any overt manipulation, there is far more information on Krafft and his Relativistic maths than Dr. Manolesco, the man that the British Intelligence division of the War Office paid to undermine the works of Krafft.

It has also often been noted that the nazi`s made use of Hegels dialectic to create their TheoSophical system and rewrite the symbols and history of the german peoples.

=== Screencaptures Taken on May 26, 2015 ===

Here are some screencaptures I took while thinking of making a video of some type. Thot I would include them here.

==Dr John Manolesco==

==Karl Ernst Krafft==

MLK Mashup - Every Day of The Week

2015-08-14T17:35:00.002-07:00

I used a speech from Martin Luther King to create this poetic mashup on police brutality.

Originally I was going to call it "Police Brutality" but as the piece evolved I decided to change it to "Every Day of The Week Every Day of The Month." I hope it creates a feeling of being tired with slaver guilt keeping a black man down, with white fascists scapegoating ppl from weak groups, such as black folks, but I suppose on that note, it is true to say: Black aint no colour.
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A thing I would like to point out about the background noise: the drum sounds at the beginning sounds like marching or military drums, towards the end, when the voice slows, gets tired, loses hope, I use a different drum, and make it random, like someone hammering, or nailing a gay Socrates to a cross of some type, perhaps the one that Davinci had such a love for? Hegel and Goethe both loved the rosy cross too :)... anyways, at the end the drum is supposed to create the feeling of black men being crucified for white slaver guilt, or something like that :-/.
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Sweet Jesus and Other Gods We Consume

2015-08-13T15:18:00.002-07:00

The title says it all - Sweet Jesus - the unsavoury truths that we hide inside our own social institutions, like churches.

Based on the movie Soylent Green this tonepoem explores the thot that we eat our gods, whether in catholicism with its wafers and wine, or in palaeolithic cultures with their vegetable god, et al... and we ourselves are of course consumed by Truth... or as the priest Paul says: "All Truth is destroying me."

In this particular piece I focus on the idea that truth consumes us and we have been cannibals since b4 christ and catholicism. (btw the priest is named paul, kinda a nice nod, layers in some nice ambiguity).

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SOYLENT GREEN! - Sweet Jesus brand mix Now!!!!! with More FIBRE!
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For more about the movie Soylent Green go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Here is a related article about GMO`s and how we perceive the world http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2013/05/30/why-gmo-myths-are-so-appealing-and-powerful/#.VaffjflVhBc

I would also like to add that Erich Fromm often made the point in many of his books that it is our stomachs that give us our diversity, adaptability, autonomy and strength... any of his books are well worth reading, many were published around the time that Soylent Green was put out, and he had a profound impact on the intellectuals of his day.
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Logans Run Tv Series - Poetic Mashups

2015-07-29T20:49:00.004-07:00

I took an episode from the 1977 Logans Run Tv Series called The Fear Factor and created a couple of poetic mashups.
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Lost From Home - Logans Run

I called the first mashup Lost From Home and this tonepoem deals with ideas of authority versus autonomy. The idea, or perhaps warning, was along these lines: a culture based solely on authority and control inevitably loses the ability to produce autonomous individuated citizens until even the loftiest inner circle dullards become so consumed by anxiety over repressed guilt and it's tightening of psycho-pharmaceutical restraints that they themselves no longer have the bravery needed to think independently. Their culture becomes a brain dead super organism in it's final death throes.

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Fear Factor - Logans Run

My second mashup from the 1970's tv series logans run. In this tonepoem the emphasis is on the words: #fear #anxiety #purpose, #courage, #menial and #soldier.

The episode asks the perennial and eternally classic question: Can a culture of control become scared stupid? ... surprisingly, the answer is yes ;-O.

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Do You Like Sci-fi?

Are you a sci-fi buff and want more info about the Logans Run TV Series? Visit: http://www.scififreaksite.com/logan.html, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(TV_series) and also http://www.tv.com/shows/logans-run/fear-factor-105691/ for more info.
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Winston Churchill - Poetic Mashups

2015-07-24T10:21:00.003-07:00

I took Sir Winston Churchill's' "We Must Arm Speech" and mashed it up into these two tonepoems. Hope they are enjoyed!

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Churchill speaks: "Thots and Words."

In "Thots and Words" the Terror of Hitler talks about what it takes to throw a mighty potentate into a rage of feeling bad... apparently it is a "tiny little mouse" that can bring down these mighty potentates.

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Churchill says: The Word Is NO!

Churchill talks about what the word k(NO)w gives to humanity.
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Archetypes On Shatterday with Bruce Willis

2015-07-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

Archetypes On Shatterday is a poetic soundscape made from mashing-up an old twilight zone episode with Bruce Willis in the starring role. It is from the first 1985 The Twilight Zone TV Series and this episode was called Shatterday. (like saturnday - samhain?) and deals with the jungian ideas of archetypes, anima / animus, shadow, etc...

Strangely enough, the feminine sounding voice is the voice of Bruce Willis merely moved one step from its original note... so the voice that represents the feminine side of Bruce Willis's character is Bruce Willis's. There are no other affects. Listening closely to his voice was fascinating, a very soothing soft sexually ambivalent voice. Perfect for this show and even better when he is reassuring terrorists that he is coming to get them. And they can not stop him - :) lolz.

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For more about this episode go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatterday

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Ray Bradbury Theatre - Poetic Mashups

2015-07-18T22:03:00.000-07:00

I have been a big fan of Ray Bradbury since I was a child, and have always loved his philosophical take on life, and of course his incredibly unique, rolling style of narration. With it`s sudden imagery and stark possibility!

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The First Mashup is from a story called "The Chicago Abyss" and I called it "Dangerous Memory."

Fave quotes from the show are:

1). "The things silly or not that people remember are the things that people will search for again."

2). "I just wanted people to think where we're going what we've done."

3). char1 says: "you were there, you saw, you did nothing?!" char2 says: "Fight one fool to save another?"

4). "You trying to make me feel bad? Don't you know the law? What would the police say? (then calls / yells for the) POLICE!!

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The next Ray Bradbury Theatre story I sampled from is Called "Usher II," and it is a story about a future where the 'moral' police burn the past... but it is a story with a happy ending if you are a fan of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe? Hopefully this particular tonepoem captures the intent of the author?

My fave quote is where the main character says to the moral police: "There has always been a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the past, afraid of the future, afraid of themselves..."

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More poetic mashups and tonepoem are available at https://paulbergeron.bandcamp.com/album/media-echos-by-paul-bergeron for purchase and download.
You can also listen for free at https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3/sets/media-echos
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For more about "The Chicago Abyss" go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683239/ and also http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1568/To-the-Chicago-Abyss/product_info.html

For more about "Usher II" go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683244/

For more about Ray Bradbury go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury and http://www.dystopic.co.uk/author-profile-ray-bradbury/

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The Orpheus story...

2015-07-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

Here is a fave quote, almost a mantrum to me, though the author that wrote it did not much impress me, this quote itself is notable, and the book itself had some reasonable good content not easily found online, or at wikipedia o.0.
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...The Orpheus story looks inwards upon the literary creators and recreators of these myths, reminding us that poets have always striven to create a mythical world that shall be a symbol for the world of actual existence. A few, such as Byron and Rimbaud, have even completed their myths by living them. Most have written about them, or painted them instead. "There is no doubt about it," remarked Thomas Mann, "The moment when the story-teller acquires the mythical way of looking at things marks a new beginning in his life. It means a peculiar intensification of his artistic mood, a fresh serenity in his powers of perception and creation." And this usually comes rather late in life.

Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Pg 280
Michael Grant

Most Popular Instrumentals

2015-07-16T19:01:00.003-07:00

Here are some of my most popular instrumentals based on the last six months of play data aggregated from SoundCloud, Reverbnation and Bandcamp:

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1). Autumn Shores - Uplifting and Bright

Haunted Dreams and The Wandering Souls by Paul Bergeron

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2) There is The Sun - Bright and Quick

Free embed music player from ReverbNation.com

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3). Ded Men Smiling Down on Me - Between a Dirge and a Waltz

Free EPK from ReverbNation.com

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Music Tips #1

2015-07-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

All spaces have their own sound as we all know... pink noise is used to balance equipment... a clap helps to hear early reflections in the corners... the bounce off a wall... all spaces have their own frequency.

For years now, I have been tapping out the natural, ambient rhythms of a space... to mirror it, match it... first tempo then the juicy stuff of on beat and off beat, and then the rest... playing real music on real instruments, whether with others or otherwise is now easier...

Just catch the tempo of a space while tapping your fingers next time you need something to do, and see where it leads you... I have discovered all sorts of things since starting this experiment.

First Post - Intro

2015-07-14T06:57:00.003-07:00

My first blog post at iampoeticise is an introduction and an about.

First off, my name is Paul, and some unfortunate soul already registered poeticise.blogspot, and another poor wretch got the one at tumbler, so sadly I had to choose iampoeticise at blogspot.

The IAmPoeticise blog will emphasise the philosophical aspects of my thot, creative acts, personal experiences, historical perspectives, and all other content derived by the industry of my will.

By using this blog now I am able to go into detail on my experiences using the web to promote my music, art and so on.

Here is a list of other web properties I maintain and distribute content from:

Music on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/paul-bergeron-3
Music on Bandcamp - https://paulbergeron.bandcamp.com
Music on Reverbnation - https://www.reverbnation.com/paulbergeron
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Poeticise DeviantArt - http://poeticise.deviantart.com/
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Poeticise Fanpage - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poeticise/777965112293052
Poeticise on G+ - https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/117711651384733470842/117711651384733470842/posts
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Poeticise @Twitter - https://twitter.com/Poeticise
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8LIs1l3p4NgeKRvjJn8Tw
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All the best in your future endeavours and thank you for the follow!