The Unconscious talks across the divide. Through dreamwork it produces aspects of itself, events and encounters of each day “affected,” given to rise amid the lifeworld of the Ego, the Cogito, the “Subject.” Facets of the Akashic records surprise as they arise like flowers from the soil of routine. The process I’m describing is a bit like “hyperstition,” CCRU’s term for the way fictions make themselves real. (One could also liken it, though, to those acts of “time-walking” or “time-spinning” practiced by the creatures in the Deborah Harkness-inspired TV series A Discovery of Witches. Bodies of past selves inhabited by future minds.)
Tag: Deborah Harkness
Friday April 23, 2021
Sarah and I celebrate her birthday by beginning A Discovery of Witches, a British television series based on the first book in author Deborah Harkness’s “All Souls” trilogy. It’s a fantasy series, magic a central facet of its world.