So I finished seeing Noein, and I must say: WOW! It’s a great anime, really great. I will post my comments about it tomorrow (this anime deserve more than a WOW…). I will also put the resume of a lecture that I give last week in the class of text seminar I (it’s about mystic, specifically in the medieval era), I will put it first in Spanish, and probably next week I will translated it to English (I’m sorry my imaginary readers, but the class is in Spanish).
Right now I can only say that it was about an introduction text on what mystic is, and if mystic is part of religion or not. The text in itself was a little agh but what can I expect, when the teacher that give the curse (and chose the texts) is Christian. Now, I don’t have anything about Christians or the teacher (in fact I like her and respect her opinion), but this requires diversity of texts, not only catholic or Christian texts. The argument our teacher gives about why only this texts about what mystic is are chosen is that the ones the write more about this where the Catholics, which is logical being that they where almost the only ones that knew how to write in those ages… but still… We could also find other explicative texts in the psychology area, but she doesn’t like psychology either, can’t blame her though… In this city the field of psychology studies is very crapy (I will only say that here only exist daddy Freud… Fromm and Adler are almost none existent, they pretend that Jung doesn’t exist and all the post Jungians are none existent) Goodbye to Mircea Eliade, Hillman and the others… So, for the moment, we are stuck with Catholics and Christians. The only thing that eases me is that eventually, as it is about medieval texts we will also have to see Jew and Muslim mystic. With the Jews we will see cabbala with the texts of Scholem (he RULES!), and I have no idea what texts are we going to use for the Muslims (I’m ashamed to admit that my knowledge of their philosophy, let alone their mystic, it’s almost none existent, of them I have only read one of Averroes books, and a small text of Avicena…).
