tshcinag and groddeck

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The writer seems to me curious and engaged with life. He seems to be drawn to nature and to seeing below the surface. From a person's descriptions, one can tell something about their interests and preoccupations, and it is interesting to note that in all descriptive, the author turns to nature and uses nature-connected illustrations.

In his first reflections about Gaslan, the writing could have been remotely, if at all, connected to nature. Gaslan seems to have asked questions of an existentialist character: where do I come from? Where do I go? The author, himself, notes that Gaslan was a solid, down-to-earth personality who seemed yet to have resonated with greater depth. The author is attracted to Gaslan for this depth. He senses a shamanism, an organic nature to the man, an atmosphere that transcends earthliness and binds him with the transcendental Gaia of the Earth. The author himself seems mystical and interested in the natural phenomena of the world. Each person interprets phenomena according to his experiences and personal tendencies. One may read into Gaslan a totally different interpretation than that which the author comes away with. To the author, Gaslan resonates with the spirit world and with the inner energies of nature." I personally visualized it like allowing your soul to wander in search of its own words."

The author approaches Robert Bly's account about Georg Groddeck's "Charakter und Typus" with a similar perspective. He notes that both writers are "very keen on different types of energy, spirit and kinetic. In their writings, their words surround nature and things beyond." Another reader would undoubtedly have noted different things, because people observe according to their interests and experiences. Indeed, Bly has written on a variety of subjects and each of his material could be read from different tangent points. It is interesting to note that the author comes away from Bly's reading with the observation that Blky's comments on Goethe's poems are about nature.

Finally, the author chose to analyze the poem The Prelude by William Wordsworth, and we see the same theme. It may have been the aspect of nature that attracted him to the poem for as in the previous two writings, the author remarks about the spirit that emanates from this poem and about the atmosphere of nature:

I feel this poem is directly related to both readings because it has properties of a disconnected soul in my eyes, a mind that has been freed. There are many verses in this poem that suggest vivid dreams of blurred eyes, a contained madness that flows freely without a body "of sea or sky, no colors of green fields." I see eyes that see the living far beneath sunlit soil. It makes me think of an intimacy of life and nature within a dream.