Tag: Mahler

• Mahler and Life and Death

  I haven’t blogged for a good few days because I’ve been too ‘re-absorbed’ in the music of one of my three favourite composers, Gustav Mahler, and now I’d like to write something about Mahler and death. I hope you haven’t fled away from that last word, because it’ll catch up with you regardless so, if […]

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  5th Jun 2022

  Religion, Music, Composer, Christianity

  Music, Mahler, Opera, Resurrection, Religion, Death, Symphony, Tragic, Life after Death

• Rethinking ‘God’ (4) ‘A Broader Picture’

  In my previous post, in the context of ‘describing God’, I said I’d look at sources other than the Bible which might be of some assistance. In his Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung outlines what he calls the archetypes of the collective unconscious, one of which is the God image. The ‘collective unconscious’ is the deepest […]

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  25th Oct 2021

  Consciousness, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Buddha, Darwin, God, Jung, Mahler, Panpsychism, Science

• Mahler and Timelessness

  There was an occasion when the composer Gustav Mahler was taking a train journey. Not only was he director of the Vienna State Opera, all the way down from orchestra, singers, scenery and lighting, and stage hands, to box office returns, but in his ‘spare time’ (otherwise known as summer ‘holidays’) he also composed ten […]

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  18th Jan 2021

  Composer, Consciousness, Music, Religion

  Mahler, Opera, Timelessness, Transcendence, Vienna