tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post1387985739900445153..comments2024-03-24T17:49:05.886-04:00Comments on The Robert Moss BLOG: Consecutive dreams and parallel livesMarcia Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04530003059608361331noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-54237210964038535792013-03-14T02:46:27.976-04:002013-03-14T02:46:27.976-04:00Oh, Joan's account of her conception is a deli...Oh, Joan's account of her conception is a delightful comedy of errors, dreamlike but unshadowed. It starts with her parents-to-be being mistaken for visiting royals by the Italian honor guard that met their steamer from Sorrento and conveyed them to the Blue Grotto for a private picnic at father-to-be Jack's request. She talks later about her frustrations at being stuck in an awkward infant body, but there is no Isle of the Dead stuff in her first take on Capri. I am a great admirer of Joan Grant, but I must note that it is not clear to me that she ever entertained the idea that "past lives" and "future lives" may all be happening Now, or explored the nature of parallel universes. It would be interesting to interview her on these matters now that she has an even larger perspective.Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-12460583772146721692013-03-13T23:51:42.453-04:002013-03-13T23:51:42.453-04:00
Yes, in the first line...the otherworldly tinctur...<br />Yes, in the first line...the otherworldly tincture that penetrated her life and psyche. Not a past life, then, but a personal creation myth. <br /><br />Still, there was something ominous, or foreboding, in the circumstances of her conception, was there not?<br /><br />A versatile image: the island as a vessel, or a tomb.<br /><br />Avalon or Toteninsel....<br /><br />palimpsesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919259524095662738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-26032972728294352282013-03-13T21:57:07.898-04:002013-03-13T21:57:07.898-04:00The opening line of Joan Grant's "Far Mem...The opening line of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" is "I was conceived in the Blue Grotto at Capri in June 1906". Thanks for the reminder. You prompted me to pull my copy off the shelf. Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-66188105072879443562013-03-13T20:12:49.946-04:002013-03-13T20:12:49.946-04:00Didn't Joan Grant, in her past life visions, e...Didn't Joan Grant, in her past life visions, encounter strains of a powerfully romantic, animus-evoking, nature, on the island of Capri? It seems to me that her scenario featured the blue grotto (sic).<br /><br />I think it might be in her memoir, but I don't have my copy. Capri was similarly idyllic, but fateful, if not fatal, in that "episode."<br /><br />Wells' story strikes me as further testament to the "nowhere to hide" message: of the necessity of commitment and resignation to the exigencies of life, large or small, however absurd and apparently self-negating, which can be drawn from sources profane and sacred, notably the Bhagavad Gita.<br /><br />palimpsesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919259524095662738noreply@blogger.com