I have here a good article about how two giant psychologists explain the finest curves of our soul.
I did my best to translate from Greek. thanks for your interests, blessing.

By SearchingTheMeaningOfLife

The psychotherapeutic art of Heraclitus, which can cure the disharmony that reigns in our psychic world but also in society.

In such a short phrase as the above, the great Ephesian philosopher Heraclitus – the so-called dark philosopher of the ancient Greek spirit – was able to capture the truth about the human soul, formulating it with simple and shocking clarity. Heraclitus holds a special place not only in ancient Greek philosophy but also in the field of -youngian mainly- psychotherapy since Heraclitus philosophy clearly influenced the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, Carl G.Jung.

Jung incorporated in his philosophical system but also in the methods of a psychotherapy that he applied, the famous Law of Crossing which is based on the philosophy of Heraclitus on the harmony of opposites. Jung attributed the inspiration and philosophical conception of this Law to Heraclitus himself, who was the first to speak of the urgent need to unite opposites, both in Nature and in man himself. Jung always tried – during his psychotherapeutic course – to spread a bridge of communication between two seemingly opposite elements in the personality of his patients: the conscious on the one hand (with rational thinking and critical mind) and the unconscious on the other. (with all his primordial and unruly actions.)

This coexistence of conscious and unconscious, with their diametrically opposed forces, was for Jung the key to the mental balance of every human being, just as for Heraclitus the wonderful order and function of the Universe was based on the harmony of opposite elements in Nature: day and night, light and darkness, heat and cold, winter and summer.

The Balance of Opposites
For Jung, the Law of Opposition is the wisest psychological law, as it serves man’s path to self-realization, through redefining and redefining his life.
According to the Law of Crossroads, when an energy flow, a psychic potential develops unilaterally and is consolidated as a way of life – without the completion of its opposite – it will reach the highest point of development and manifestation and then a diametrically opposite will follow.
of course from the original, so that the manifested psychic energy can include and assimilate its opposite, which until then had been neglected. Jung had said that every action always has two poles. The purpose of the Enantiopry is, therefore, the balance of these two opposite poles.

For example, when one has expressed a one-dimensional sexual life, based on intense erotic passion, pleasure, emotional excitement and instinctive arousal, but at the expense of his spirituality and the collective dimension of his soul (which includes the needs of others people, partners – erotic or not), with an axis of satisfaction only his own individual soul and its egocentric, narcissistic needs, then it will come at some point in the life of this person, an “unexpected”, shocking event (in the form of a serious accident or a catalytic “misfortune”), or an “unexplained” but persistent psychosomatic or organic symptom), or a prolonged, deep melancholy, or even a tyrannical ideology (like phobias, that did not exist before and seem incomprehensible, intense hypochondriac tendencies and obsessive-compulsive behaviours), which will manifest as a critical and decisive turning point. An almost borderline situation – between collapse and elevation -, a balance into enabling the hitherto one-sided and egocentric expression of sexuality to be transformed into the emotional sharing with the other side and the recognition of a spiritual, higher dimension in the soul of the individual himself, which until then remained unfolded.

Sex life
The course of human sexuality for Jung is a perfect application of the Law of Crossing: It begins vigorously and rapidly in the instincts and passions, reaches maximum levels of climax, arousal and filling to follow in about middle age (the time point, where the Enantiodromia occurs) a gradual, downward course.
Instincts and impulses recede to enter more spiritual and psychic elements. Someone who does not take into account the manifestation of the Law of the Cross will be led, according to Jung, to sexual nerves and emotional disorders, the severity of which will depend on the life of the person until then.

The Law of the Crossing has its own consequences. A life focused solely on sexuality and sensuality will initially bring pleasure and satisfaction, but later on sexual dysfunction and depression. Of course, the Enantiodromia can be valid in the opposite case: Someone who lives a sterile – emotionally, erotically and sexually – spiritual life, for the sake of the intellect and at the expense of his sexual and material side, to feel – in some unexpected phase of his life – an unprecedented, erotic passion, so intense and insane, that it completely diverts him from the hitherto spiritual and calm course of his life. Or he may show symptoms of boredom, depression, emotional emptiness, which will always remind him that a part of himself – less spiritual but just as important – has remained unexpressed and incomplete.

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I must begin this post with a confession that I have never used a romantic poetic way in my life. I think that some of my wonderful friends who are great poets have noticed that I am not the one and they may be righ” 😁😉

Therefore, I want to present this post to these appreciated poetesses and poets. especially; Holly @hrenehunter https://houseofheartweb.wordpress.com/ , Yassy @yaskhan https://yassy66.wordpress.com/ , Lance Sheridan https://lancesheridan.com/ Deborah Gregory @liberatedsheep http://theliberatedsheep.com/ Mike Steeden @michaelsteeden https://mikesteeden.wordpress.com/ And surely many others. 🙏💖🤗💖🤗🙏

When I was young, I chose the way of logic; although likely read the romantic novels and even when I got into the world of theatre, I used both methods of Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski and Berthold Brecht; though, there is a huge difference between them. Stanislawski believed that the actor(ess) must bring the character on the stage into life, and Brecht wasn’t agreed and wanted the Technique on the stage: {Epic Theatre}, but I used them both appropriately. You can find more here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_theatre

First, let me tell you about the old style and the modern one in Persian poesy; the poesy in the old-time as belonging to the high society and the poets were appreciated by the kings and queens like in all countries; Athens, Romans, and Persians. In the old Persian, they had a special norm and regulation to write or make a poem; it had to have written in two sentences in the separated row with the same weight and in rhyme.

I have surely some favourites among those old poets; like Rumi, Khayyam and Hafez

But it never means that I wanted to block all the modern poesy in those days. My brother, Al, had a huge knowledge about the literature included poems, therefore, I was much involved in them. But my interest was not so strong as his, especially, when the modern poesy got famous in Iran and it was a very beloved subject in the meetings of the young intellectuals in some privet apartments, particularly after the Islamic revolution. We had a lot of discussions about the new poems and also there were young poets as newcomers and I had to challenge with them, then I had some problem to get accustomed to the new Poesy, I always meant that I had to understand it when I read a poem! They said that It might because of my lack of interest or understanding about the new wave but I had an argument: I answered I’d appreciate one of the new poets and it was him; Nima Yushij, the revolutioner who made a break in the old form of poesy in Iran and when I heard his poets I had not only understood it completely, it even had touched my soul.

Of course, these young poets were likely trying to get my approval for their own works and I was very amused when I once told a young poet “I like one of your piece” he was fascinatingly encouraged and happy!

Now let me introduce this great poet;

Nima Yushij

His real name is Ali Esfandiyari, he’s born in 1896 and lived till 1960, the eldest son of Ebrahim Nouri of Yosh (a village near Nour county in Mazandaran province of Iran), was born on November 12 1896. He was a contemporary Tabari (Mazandarani dialect) (my father has been born almost in his neighbourhood) and Persian poet who started a new movement in Persian poetry called she’r-e no (“new poetry”) or sometimes called she’r-e Nimaei (Nimaic poetry).

Here is one of his poets which might not be so famous but the one that hit my heart and soul. (as hard as it was I have tried to translate in English)

My House is Cloudy, by Nima Yushij:

my house is cloudy
the entire earth is cloudy with that
from the height, of the mountains pass, desolated ruin and drunk,
the wind whirls. and all the world been shattered by that,
and so my senses.
Ay, Player, that the sound of your flute brought you so out of road, where are you?

My house is cloudy
but, the cloud seems to pour rain
in the reverie of my clear days that have been lost.
I, into the facing of my Sun, carry a look at the threshold of the sea.
And all the world is ruined and shattered by the wind
and on the way, the player who blows into his flute in this cloudy world,
keep going on his own road.

And here is the original version;

 

As I have thought that in my latter post there are not enough pictures of this wonderful island (but more and again from a narcissist like me! 👳‍♀️) want to share more pics with you dear friends, especially the most are taken by my adorable wife who proves that women have a much more intensive sight than the men. 😁😎

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All pics are taken by my Lady, I wanted to put more pictures but it seems that I have a limited possibility. Have a wonderful week ahead lovely friends. 🙏💖🙏😊

Today is the day in which a great genius has been born and I think that we must be thankful for his being there to show us our so many unknown dark corners of our souls 🙏❤❤

Or an Adventure in the time of Corona!

Hello dear friends, Yes! We have done it; to spend our vacation in the other place, including taking the flight and bus and far away from home. And as you know it was surely not so easy as every year but as our big travel to the US failed out or cancelled, we had decided spontaneously (as my wife likely does) to fly to Greece. The main reason for this choice was not only the Sun and the Sea but the Greek people. I like them very much because, as I have travelled many times to many Europian countries, the Greek people were (and are) the most honest, free and easy taken ones.

In these two weeks in which I was away, I didn’t try to write something or even do much busy on the web, especially from WP. I had some ideas to write down but I didn’t, just had a short review here and there, now and then. {I hope one or two had noticed 😉} firstly because I wanted to company my wife, Regina, and she is not so interested in the social media, therefore, I decided to take a small distance to the internet and also it had done good to me, honestly!

Anyway, we flew to Crete on the southern side and I must confess that I had a seedy or shifty feeling as we arrived in the apartment in our facility; it was all empty of guests! we were the first and the only guest at least for the first three or four days. And also at the beach, there were very few people all around. For us, it was at one hand wonderful, calm and quiet, and on the other hand, we had sympathised with the natives who were suffering by this lacking tourists.

Now let’s have a look at what we had experienced on this wonderful island with abundant culture and history full of mythology.

Our main point, surely after our investigation all around the other places to see the beauty of the countryside, was the visiting of excavation of the Knossos.

In the beginning, we’ve met the turtles in some small pond, I’ll bet that most people stood most of the time to look at these beautiful and fascinating creatures!!

The Minoans are the primal ruler on this island; Crete; here I have seen a statue of the all-mighty woman on this island; Europe.

And down there it says; Europe is my name, I am the Daughter of Phoenician king Agenoras and mother of King Minos, creator of the Minoan civilisation (As I read this, I could hear her voice in my ears, I don’t know if someone else did it too!)

And in the end, I have just thought:

What a … is breezing so strong…

Of course, We have visited the “Waterfall” too, It was an amazing experience, surely with the Tarzan in it!!

The last Look;

Thank you all and I wish you wholeheartedly a much better life as ever (this can be needed always, believe me!)
And here a secret PS: as I was writing, it comes a warning that my storage space is full, then I had to act; to delete some. no problem I know the reason: no paying no action. And in the world of cash, it is normal.😏; I just remember on Hemingway’s “to Have or have not”; Herry Morgan quote on life: A man alone has no f…..g chance.
I love You All dear folk. 😉😍😘🤗😍✌🙏🙂😊😂😮😳🙃👌🤗😘😎🤑🤑🤑👳‍♀️😷🤟🤣

Natalia Goncharova is an artist, a paintress. I didn’t know her honestly and after watching a report on BBC TV, I have just wondered what a wonderful and genius woman is she; a Russian Frida Kahlo?

Let me first to announce that my wife and I have planned to take a trip (an adventure?) to Crete, Greece,(to meet Helios or his son Ilias 😉) or to spend our ( better to say; her) holidays. It might be risque but life, as I think, is full of risques and as I know my wife who can’t stay calm, I agreed to do it so. (Of course, I have finished the whole prosses with my gum-implant and also I was at Coiffeur to let cutting my hair!!) Let’s see what happens.

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova; July 3, 1881 – October 17, 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer.

She was a stunning woman but as we, unfortunately, find permanently in our history, the genius artists like her, have to bear a lot of trouble to do their works. I have mentioned there above the name of Frida Kahlo ( Frida Kahlo) though, she had a better situation in Spain, but in our man’s world, these great artists always had to suffer some bullying and harassment in their life.

She has created her works, as an artist and a revolutioner had to do but because she was a woman, it has been forbidden to show her paintings (especially the naked women) it became worst for her after the October revolution(!) 1917,therefore, she had to emigrate to Paris (thanks France-Novum art) to continue. (1921)

I am very happy to have known her and her amazing works. I hope you will enjoy them as well.

Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova

When Art meets History! Let’s have a look at these amazing paintings which illustrated the beauty of the magical history of Egypt. With ever thanks to my adorable friend and Egyptologist Marie Grillot.

From French via; https://egyptophile.blogspot.com/

Lourens Alma-Tadema was born on January 8, 1836, in Dronrijp in the Netherlands into a very wealthy family. Very early on his artistic gifts were revealed. He then shared his life between his native country and Belgium where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He is passionate about historical and archaeological subjects, with inspiration from Greece, Italy and then, finally, Egypt.

This “orientation” which leads him to “paint pages of history”, he owes in large part to his archaeology teacher, Louis de Taye. Whoever becomes his friend puts many publications at his disposal…

“Alma-Tadema created his own specific visual representation of ancient Egypt in the context of his Orientalist colleagues such as Jean-Léon Gêrome, Willem de Famars Testas and Fredérick Goodall. He drew on academic sources such as his friend well-known Egyptologist Georg Ebers, just as he adopted virtual material from popular sources, such as illustrations by John Gardner Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the ancient Egyptians “(” Alma-Tadema’s Egyptian dream: ancient Egypt in the work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema “, Robert Verhoogt.

He frequents the Egyptian department of the British Museum. He will come back often to feed on the wonders found there and will be happily inspired by it for his “Egyptian” paintings.

As the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art points out: “In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects from ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and astonishing liveliness seem to give life to a distant past. “
With “Egypt from the past 3000 years ago”, painted in 1863, the following year he won the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon…

In 1865, “Egyptian chess players” immerses us in an intimate game, bringing together three characters, concentrated on their game, while “An Egyptian at the door” puts us in front of a handsome young man with a questioning look. In 1870, his “Egyptian juggler” seems to evolve in a universe closer to Ancient Rome …

In 1872, he painted “The Death of Pharaoh’s firstborn” and “The Egyptian Widow” whose play of light for one, dark light for the other, transcends the dramatic intensity …

Then in 1874, “Joseph watching over Pharaoh’s granaries” brought together two characters in an attitude imbued with theatricality. There are scenes from the tomb of Nebamun that the painter had admired in the museum. “On the fresco behind Joseph, he reproduces the scene of the goose keepers prostrating before the deceased who inspects the herds. We distinguish his scribe on the left, a scroll under his arm, writing numbers. On the side, a standing man holds a stick and enjoins the breeders to sit down and be silent. The cartouche painted on Joseph’s seat depicting a scarab and a solar disk is that of Thutmôsis He who also reigned during the 18th dynasty. This double reference to a specific period of ancient Egypt owes nothing to chance. In the 19th century, in fact, researchers thought that it corresponded at the time mentioned in the Bible “…

After living in Paris, Alma-Tadema had settled in London in 1870 where he was appointed, six years later, a member of the Royal Academy.

On August 8, 1888, in the British capital, in the presence of other orientalist painters, Frank Dillon, Henry Walis, and the Director of the National Gallery Sir Frédérik Burton, he met William Flinders Petrie and Wallis Budge in order to alert them to the state of deterioration of Egyptian temples and tombs,…

In 1899, knighted by Queen Victoria, he became Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

It was three years later, in 1902, at the age of 66, that he discovered Egypt! One of his connections, Sir John Aird, invited him for a 6-week stay, motivated in particular by the inauguration of the Assiut and Aswan dams.

On his return, he will order him a large canvas, the only one with Egyptian inspiration made after having discovered this country … Thus, “The Discovery of Moses” will see the day … A theme often represented but which is sublimated by the interpretation that ‘in fact the master.

One of the pharaoh’s daughters returns from the river where she bathed in the company of her followers … She is seated on a sedan chair supported by young men, with shaved heads, dressed in white loincloths. Two fan carriers dressed in white tunics fan it by means of ostrich feather fans: around their long handle is wrapped a lotus stem. A musician plays the lute while the following two carry a wonderful burden that the princess looks on with tenderness and gentleness: a basket decorated with lotus leaves in which rests the baby she has just discovered in the reeds: Moses … The princess and her following are beautiful, graceful, sensual. Their clothes are airy and vaporous, their luxurious ornaments, their romantic expression… We follow them in this procession which leads the child towards his new destiny. The Nile and its banks are suggested, and flowers seem to line the bottom of the table disseminating a wonderful shade of blue …

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Victorian academic painter, close to the Pre-Raphaelites, has exhibited his works in many countries, from Europe to the United States, and even to Australia…

Some sources even state that several of his paintings “would have belonged to the American director Cecil B. DeMille who would have been inspired by them for the decorations of Hollywood films with an ancient theme like Cleopatra”!

Died in Wiesbaden on June 25, 1912, he was later buried in Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Marie Grillot { http://Marie Grillot }

sources:
Ancient Egypt by painters, Dimitri Casali, Caroline Caron-Lanfranc de Panthou, Seuil, 2011Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archeology, Margaret S. Drowerhttp://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=8https://lesdoublesviesdepompei.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema-1838-1912-au-musee-jacquemart-andre/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/441350?fbclid=IwAR0rASwHljyhiScHm3skQkJl09pBIrvTzKTnEaX4vgqpmw86xB12nnlYl1wAlma-Tadema’s Egyptian dream: ancient Egypt in the work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Robert Verhoogthttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08905495.2018.1484611?src=recsys&journalCode=gncc20https://www.wikiart.org/fr/lawrence-alma-tadema

“I was very happy, very. But as years went on, my dear boy would have wearied of his child-wife. He would have been more and more sensible of what was wanting in his home. She wouldn’t have improved. It is better as it is.

Oh, Dora, dearest, dearest,do not speak to me so. Every word seems a reproach!“

I was reading from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield as I sat at the bed where my brother Al was lying; almost in a coma, I could only hear he’s breathing. We were in a hospital in a small town and doctors told me that there’s no chance because the tumour in his head was very vicious and predominant. I had no choice just sitting there beside him and read from one of his favourites…

“How the time wears, I know not; until I am recalled by my child-wife’s old companion (Jip) more restless than he was, he crawled out of his house, and looks at me, and wanders to the door and whines to go upstairs. “Not tonight Jip, not tonight!” He comes very slowly back to me, licks my hand and lifts his dim eyes to my face; “Oh Jip, it may be, never again!“

“He lies down at my feet, stretched himself out as if to sleep, and with plaintive cry is dead… Oh Agnes! (she’s come down) Look, look here!”

“That face, so full of pity and of grief, that rain of tears, that awful mute appeal to me, that solemn hand upraised towards heaven! Agnes?”

“It’s over, darkness comes before my eyes, and for me a while, all things are blotted out of my remembrance.”

I began my tribute with a masterpiece from Dickens’ book not only because of its brilliance and impressive power of his literature but also for Al’s loved it so much and I add this as a present and am sure that he’d like it. I read this book the whole of the ten days in which we were both in this hospital till the time had come. At the end of the book, we were separated.

It’s thirteen years ago on this day as Al passed away and left this earth but strangely, I have a feeling that I have got much nearer to him as before. Am I closer to the line to change the level too? I don’t know but anyway, I am very happy about this closeness, it helps me to remember more and more about our time we were living and fighting together through those over fifty years of our life.

I wish you all you dear a leisure and peaceful weekend 💖🙏💖

The pictures source:

http://A Useful Fiction – WordPress.com

http://The Victorian Web

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By SearchingTheMeaningOfLife

Abu-Ali- Sina or Avicenna (I’d prefer the latter) is famous enough, I think, but as I have seen and read the article of my Greek friend I was surprised about all treasures which had been come out from the orient into the west and how they were developed further in Europe but forgotten in the orient!

I am not wrong when I am just hearing from the most doctors here in the western countries that they have studied Avicenna and how genius was he.

Anyway, I think my self that the Islam had done only a good thing; at the beginning, they ( the Arabs) were very tolerant, they wanted to have so many Muslims as the could have; therefore, they did put just a rule for everyone: say Allah is great and Mohamad is his prophet. that’s all. after it, all were free to do what they wanted. And that’s why so many recoveries happened in the orients. As Dr Jung says;

There’s all about the matter of thinking and thinking, again and again. No matter what the rulers or the religion rulers try to prove, you just have to let your mind fly freely, it finds a concept to know its way going forwards.

The article begins with; this one is after… I don’t know who’s first and who’s next but the main thing is; what remains.

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His intellectual abilities quickly aroused interest and, after studying in Isfahan and Tehran, he was hired by various Muslim rulers, often with the office of vizier. This “profession” has almost always been extremely dangerous, especially at the time of the decline and fragmentation of the Arab Empire.

Avicenna experienced the usual professional dangers posed by political life in the Middle East: more than once he escaped the death penalty (hair), fell victim to ransom for ransom, and spent several periods of his life in dungeons or hiding.

Back then, however, as today, there were rewards: Avicenna spent a life in fame, wealth, countless women and, of course, countless wives. Despite the ban on wine by the Qur’an, it is said that Avicenna greatly benefited from wine during his lifetime.

It remains a mystery how, in the midst of all this, he managed to steal time for his in-depth and in-deeply spiritual pursuits. Perhaps, then, the prime ministers who lived a long life did not pretend to be dying at work.

In his scientific writings, Avicenna argued that a body, to the extent that no external force is exerted on it, remains motionless at the same point or continues to move in a straight line at the same speed. This is the first law of motion, and was formulated six hundred years before Newton.

He also pointed out the inextricable links between movement and time, using evocative poetic images. If every single object in the world was immovable, then time would be meaningless. (Einstein had to appear to prove mathematically the interconnection of space with time.)

In medicine, Avicenna is considered to be the greatest physician after Galen, the greatest intellectual of Roman times in this field, and Harvey, who was to discover the blood circulation in the seventeenth century.

Avicenna’s expertise was derived directly from the occult alchemical knowledge he had inherited from al-Razi, as well as from his own alchemical research. He believed, like al-Razi, that medicine was a science. In his view, chemical or mineral medicines were far superior to the herbs and superstitions that have prevailed since time immemorial. Avicenna had compiled a long list of chemicals, their effect when administered as drugs, and the diseases they were able to cure. This pharmaceutical company (in Greek it passed – with the name “Kanon”) soon became accepted as the standard project in relation to this subject.

Avicenna’s scientific and philosophical work was at times limited by political events. Being a vizier, he fell into disfavor with the Shah of Persia, but managed to save his life by hiding. He reappeared only when the shah became seriously ill and the doctors in the courtyard, in despair, claimed that only Avicenna could save his life. Thus, the presence of Avicenna was now very important and he received assurances of his safety.

When the shah was defeated in the state war, Avicenna’s mind was seen as an integral part of the spoils and, despite having led the Persian war effort, he was immediately forced to work for the enemy. (This is an early example of a tradition that did not cease to flourish until World War II, when Russians and Americans tried to capture and employ Germans who were researching missile science, despite their cooperation with the Nazis.)

In the meantime, he continued to expand his philosophical thinking as best he could. This, like his chemistry, was based on Aristotle’s misconceptions. It encountered some additional obstacles due to the theoretical schemes imposed by the ever-strengthening Islamic Orthodoxy. Without this narrow corset, Avicenna might well have developed a truly original philosophy. His thirst for philosophical and scientific knowledge was driven by a very modern sense of existential “question”, as evidenced by his poetry:

I wish I could find out who I am,

In the world what is what I ask for.

Although he invokes ignorance, Avicenna was not one of those who gladly tolerate stupidity, and the sharpness of his character did not give him many friends. He even dismissed his medical mentor, Al-Razi, claiming that his author would have done better if he had been limited to “urine and faecal analysis.”

Avicenna died in 1037, probably poisoned.

Within a few years, Avicenna’s philosophical and medical works were widely circulated throughout the Arab world. A copy of his Canon was found very far away, in the great library of Toledo, when the Spaniards recaptured the state from the Arabs in 1095.

But even earlier, his secrets had been smuggled into Europe by Constantine the African – one of those figures who abruptly invaded the stage of history and their name is associated with a remarkable act, as well as a few events that are alluded to, but also many more, leaving us to imagine the novel of a lifetime.

Constantine the African was probably born as a Muslim in Carthage and studied in Baghdad. One fine morning, mysteriously, he appeared at Salerno Medical School, carrying with him a copy of Avicenna’s pharmacy. After translating the work into something Latin without many claims, he became a Christian monk in Monte Cassino, where he died in 1087. In the following centuries, Avicenna’s work was to be the most widely read medical text in Europe, a work in progress. as a forerunner for modern pharmaceutical science.

Excerpt from Paul Strathern’s book “Mendeleev’s Dream.”

source:  https://antikleidi.com/

Avicenna and Galen, Philosophy and Medicine: Contextualising Discussions of Medical Experience in Medieval Islamic Physicians and Philosophers

In: OriensAuthor: Kamran I. Karimullah ¹

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi

https://brill.com/view/journals/orie/45/1-2/article-p105_4.xml?language=en

Happy Summer Solstice to all you dear friends. It’s surely a fiesta which we can find in many forms in many different cultures. I want to tell you a little about the Persians ceremony.

Tishtrya is the God of Summer Solstice of the Persian Paganism and also named Tir (in English: Arrow) that is the fifth month in the Persians calender and the first month of Summer. Tishtrya^{[pronunciation?]} (Tištrya) or Roozahang is the Avestan language name of a Zoroastrian benevolent divinity associated with life-bringing rainfall and fertility. Tishtrya is Tir in Middle- and Modern Persian. As has been judged from the archaic context in which Tishtrya appears in the texts of the Avesta, the divinity/concept is almost certainly of Indo-Iranian origin. via; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishtrya

Tir was a messenger of Aramazd (or Ahuramazda) The good or bright side of the Persians Gods (Ahriman was the dark side.) He was a fortune-teller and a guide of the dead person’s soul. Another name for Tir was Grogh (meaning writer or scribe), though this might be a fusion of two originally distinct deities.

But the Persian celebration is actually is in 13th of the month Tir, (the first July) called Tirgan; the midsummer festival.

The first month of summer is called Tir in the Persian language which translates into English as an arrow. Choosing this name was not an accident. There are many customs associated with the month of Tir, which itself is associated with the legend of the arrow.

Tirgan, the summer solstice celebrates the life of Arash Kamangir. Arash is an ancient Persian name which means bright and shining in English, and Kamangir in the Persian language means one who gets the arch. Arash was the Persian national hero who sacrificed his life to preserve the territorial integrity of Iran. (Look into; http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1038.html The Legend of Tir and the First Month of Summer in Persia, by Soudabeh Sadigh.)

Anahita; the Goddess of Water; Anahita is the ancient Persian goddess of fertility, water, health and healing, and wisdom. Owing to her association with life-giving properties, she also came to be connected with ancient Persian warfare as soldiers would pray to her for their survival before the battle.

Anahita/ɑːnəˈhiːtə/ is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aredvi Sura Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā), the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of “the Waters” (Aban) and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom.There is also a temple named Anahita in Iran. Aredvi Sura Anahita is Ardwisur Anahid or Nahid in Middle and Modern Persian, and Anahit in Armenian.^[1] An iconic shrine cult of Aredvi Sura Anahita was – together with other shrine cults – “introduced apparently in the 4th century BCE and lasted until it was suppressed in the wake of an iconoclastic movement under the Sassanids.”^[2] via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahita

On my search in the net, I came across an interesting Dame (a Jungian analyst) who connects this with the archetype in woman, by the goddess Anahita.

Faranak Mirjalili http://faranak mirjalili

She is a Jungian Analyst who works with people (Anima, Feminine) more info; https://www.faranakmirjalili.net/about And here is her tell about the Persians Summer Solstice, the Goddess Anahita and her interpretations of her dreams.

– Tishtrya: Tir Yasht 8.5 in the sacred book of Zoroastrian religion

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