CLOSED EYES . OPEN MIND

CLOSED EYES . OPEN MIND

Consider also:

  1. New article about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes claims the villain, Lord Blackwood, is inspired by Aleister Crowley
  2. “The success of these private rituals induced me to take the Caxton Hall for seven performances, which were open to the public. Bottomley attacked the rituals as obscene and blasphemous. He was merely reflecting in print the depravity of his own mind.”
  3. “One would hope that if [Zos Kia Cultus] is anything, it exists in that moment of contact between Spare’s work and the individual’s mind, open to its subversive influence; and then in the fruit of that communion, an inspiration and a creative response. The moment remains – the transmission continues.”
  4. “We had quarrelled about philosophy and physics. His mind was intensely positive, brutally matter-of-fact, but capable of appreciating subtlety, and far more open to new facts and theories than most of his opponents supposed. His arrogance was, to a great extent, the Freudian protection against his own uncertainty. He knew psychology, he knew men; he understood business; and in his capacity of instructor at Harvard, he had acquired the habit of forming and directing minds. So much I knew, and I pictured my duel with him in romantic terms of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty.”
  5. “he must have expected to receive thoughts and images from beyond his own mind, just in so far as that mind transcended its preoccupation with particular time and place”