That Bright Land (CS Lewis & Sehnsucht)

Did you ever have an intense desire to be somewhere else, but you didn't know where? Maybe the place where beauty or imagination derived from? Or the place where the reality behind ideas (original "forms" in Plato-speak) originated? CS Lewis used to talk about such a place, and the intense longing he had for it even before he became a Christian. Do the thoughts that enter your head actually come from you? Or do they come from elsewhere while you just pick between them and sort them out? And did ancient man spend so much time gazing at the stars because he felt the call of distant lands too? We'll attempt here to explore these complex notions in a not so complex video.

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• sehnsucht
• CS
• Lewis
• Christianity
• Heaven
• God
• longing
• desire

[jesseakers]

have you ever seen "Dead Man"

[gmdinformation]

Yeah, but it was a long time ago. I only remember that it was kind of surreal.

[grandconjunct]

Very Interesting you always deal with the deepest subjects, and ones I can definitely relate, Do you ever wonder if when we dream or have quick flashes of inspiration that seem to be complete that somehow we are downloading Ideas from some realm of Ideas? almost like were given Ideas to change this world in some minor way ?

Glad to see you are making videos again Gmd

[gmdinformation]

Hey Pal,

Yeah, I think all that happens. God's magic. I don't have to understand it.

I was looking through your videos last night along with some of the other regulars around here, and it looks like nobody else is making many videos over the summer either. I guess everyone is out having fun or something. Can't blame them.

[jesseakers]

the mystics used to say that the only reason that we sing, compose poetry, create art. etc. is because we are separated from the source from whence it all came

[gmdinformation]

Sounds right to me.

[gnosisandlight]

Have you ever done a side by side comparison between Lewisonian "Joy" and Zen "Satori"? If not I would look at both because they are uncannily similar. It seems that such a longing transcends cultural barriers.

[gnosisandlight]

This is great man! This is really the reason that Lewis had such a great effect on me. My first books were Terry Brooks, and Robert Jordan. I was so enamored of them that I began to believe that those worlds must be heavenly because I wished to be there more than anything else.(I wasn't a christian at the time). When I read Lewis I became emotional because I knew that I wasn't alone. Then Plato elicited much the same. Thanks for posting this.

[jesseakers]

o, the opening couple of riffs almost reminded me of it, and the wayfaring stranger reminded me of Depp's character, I recommend watching it again....