The Cosmic Codex
8. William Butler Yeats and the Occult with Dr. Danny Rhodes
[Podcast previously entitled Sacred Wisdom]
The Irish Poet and mystic William Butler Yeats is the central topic of today’s show. For any of you interested in poetry, mysticism and the occult, then you are in for treat. I discuss Yeats with Danny Rhodes, a Yeatsian academic who completed his PhD at Queen Mary University – titled ‘Radiant Matter: Alchemy, Radium and Field Poetics in W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound’. Dannyhas given multiple papers on the alchemical interpretation of radium, ectoplasm and anti-atomist theories of matter, all in relation to modernist poetics and the work of Yeats and Pound.
In this episode, Danny and I talk about Yeats’ life and work including the influence that the visionary William Blake had on him; his relationship with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Yeats’ thoughts on consciousness, individual, collective, and cosmic, and how that exactly co-insides with Carl Jung’s theories; the micro and macro nature of reality, and how for millennia mystics intuited what science then proved to be true. Danny also explicates Yeats’ entangled love life, and offers analysis of the poem Leda and the Swan and how this tells us about the mystical shift in society that was occurring at that time.
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[Podcast previously entitled Sacred Wisdom]
The Irish Poet and mystic William Butler Yeats is the central topic of today’s show. For any of you interested in poetry, mysticism and the occult, then you are in for treat. I discuss Yeats with Danny Rhodes, a Yeatsian academic who completed his PhD at Queen Mary University – titled ‘Radiant Matter: Alchemy, Radium and Field Poetics in W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound’. Dannyhas given multiple papers on the alchemical interpretation of radium, ectoplasm and anti-atomist theories of matter, all in relation to modernist poetics and the work of Yeats and Pound.
In this episode, Danny and I talk about Yeats’ life and work including the influence that the visionary William Blake had on him; his relationship with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Yeats’ thoughts on consciousness, individual, collective, and cosmic, and how that exactly co-insides with Carl Jung’s theories; the micro and macro nature of reality, and how for millennia mystics intuited what science then proved to be true. Danny also explicates Yeats’ entangled love life, and offers analysis of the poem Leda and the Swan and how this tells us about the mystical shift in society that was occurring at that time.
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Please consider supporting the show on patreon
https://www.patreon.com/sacredwisdom