William Blake's spiritual visions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2014
- Iain Sinclair visits William Blake's grave and discusses the spiritual visions that made up such a significant part of his life and work. Filmed at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London.
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I cant get enough of William Blake
And???
William Blake is one of the greatest minds of all time. His work will live on forever
I am so happy to be living in these exciting times where we can at last talk openly.
and he still continues to inspire...
Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet I just found out about him. Would you say he impacted your life and if yes in what way? Someone told me he knew the true secret about this reality.....but I can’t find what
The polymath and mystic William Blake has influenced and inspired musicians, artists, poets, clergy, designers and the ordinary citizen. A genius who not be silenced.
Very moving and beautiful - thankyou. One of Englands greatest souls. And many thanks to those who located the exact spot of his burial - as originally it was in an unmarked pauper's grave.
beautiful, brilliant piece of documentary. simple, elegant yet full of deep content within.
Blake is still underrated… the prophetic works are incredibly profound. A master of mystic and symbolic understanding of conscious experience.
Brilliant summary upon William Blake splendid and out of the world visions.@Iain Sinclair is a poet himself, his voice is hypnotic and it's suites the visit to the grave of a Madmen who was ahead of his time and space. A pleasure to watch.
Disappointed that the documentary ended. It is a fine piece of work.
A very good short summary of William Blake's vast body of work.
Iain Sinclair wrote the book "Lights Out for the Territory". An excellent read.
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing
Thank you. How sweet it would be to spend an hour with him and Catherine today. I, too, straddle the seemingly incongruous. I enjoyed your point of view.
Well said, Catherine. Have known of the poet for decades but have ignored him and his work. Ironically, I actually wrote a college term paper on him back in the 70's but have no recollection of what I said in it. Documentaries such as this are filling in alot of the blanks. I find Mr. Blake quite fascinating, extremely different from the other Romantic poets of whom I'm so fond. I intend to start reading his work, as well as watch many more documentaries!
Superb film. Iain Sinclair is himself a great talent.
he is special.
The ancient of days = such a beautiful image and yet so small
Excellent poetic summary of Blake.
An oasis of the dissident and difficult..love it.
Thank you - just watched this. It's a good introduction for people like me whi know little of William Blake and are fascinated to know more.
Fantastic.
I've been to his grave many years ago. Even 200 years later people were laying flowers
He wasn't a normal human... He was someone divine...
I saw a spiritual being as it may be described once at 16 years of age hovering over a house above while walking my dog for about 5 seconds or so!I'd just started reading Bible again at that time!Once in a lifetime experience so far anyway!I don't know why or what it meant to this day really 😀 I read Blake much later teens and in my 20s!His mythology was something odd at thst age!
Very good, much better than the companion video concerning his printing! Thank you. And I don't approve merely because it accords with what I already knew, or thought I did-it doesn't exactly, but seems worth placing alongside it and not below. I feared a lot of misty and awful sentimentalism, or picturesqueness.
No credit for the music?
Iain Sinclair about William Blake - what a combination!
I so badly wish I knew the song
I am read this book 📚 by Nancy
That's not acutally the location of Blake's grave, although the actual spot is accidentally featured in this film.
I wonder if there are places where one could learn the same philosophy and doctrines. I would be very interested in them.
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I don't think Blakes visions were literal. Angels in the tree are the wholeness of nature, like seeing a bird as a god.
So was Blake a pantheist maybe ?!
Your comment is a reflection of your own limitations; it is not about him.
what is that large bird at 4.30?
What's that music?
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I wonder how he hit the archetypes so potently..... actually I really don't, but I hope you all do :)
No doubt it all happened to him as he said it did.
fascinating film. I first thought maybe Blake was taking mushrooms? lol.. but his visions started as a child.. dreams maybe. fascinating.
Apparently the famous poet Byron commenting on Blakes work dismissed him as a raving lunatic (because of the spiritual visions etc). It makes me sad to think his work was held back by such elitist and egotistical people .. who should have seen something worthwhile in Blakes work
Sad thing is he should have had more readers in his lifetime & could have been more productive. what held him back was lack of understanding.
Is this the same Iain Sinclair who wrote the rather wonderful Slow Chocolate Autopsy?
yes
Very good 👍 ❤💙🤍
Yes, some like William Blake have natural gifts from Almighty God we don’t need magic mushrooms or other drugs. ✝️
2:01 or related
Sometime this yr of 2016 i planted crystals on behalf the galactic federation of light there in that grave-yard in the city nr old st.
FIERY THE ANGELS FELL - DEEP THUNDER ROLLED AROUND THEIR SHORES - BURNING WITH THE FIRE OF ORC
...... Nov 7 then
Is william Blakesley grave in London???
Maybe Blakes visions are reality and the every day world that we call reality, Is imagination, the stuff of dreams.
why did i pick a level english
He was the result of the deprivation of England of Catholic Mysticism
Patrick Fealy can you expand this. im interested.
@@MikhailBarachashvili The demented tyrant Henry VIII and his rapacious goons and the puritan fanatics that followed destroyed the legacy of the ancient English Church and much of the spirit of traditional Christianity in the country (along with many of the artistic, literary and architectural treasures, as well as plundering the tombs of many of the saints and kings). The 'Reformation.' Hence England being covered in the stripped bones of the high middle ages. 'Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,' to use Shakespeare's phrase. Of course the Catholic Church itself was corrupt, and already in Italy it was corrupted and decaying no matter what a brute savage like Henry did in England, it was tottering.
How can you have mystics when all the bodies of contemplatives have been scattered or murdered and their ancient institutions obliterated? So a psychopathic king can marry another tart and his brood can pillage the legacy of his people in the process? Hence the shallowness of 'Protestants,' as Blake never tired of pointing out, indirectly.
This is how evil the so-called 'Reformation' was in England. The tombs of both King Alfred the Great - England's most brilliant and heroic king, to this day - and Saint Thomas Becket - England's most noble and famous saint - were plundered, destroyed and scattered to the winds, because the fat greedy bastard on the throne wanted thus. 'Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.' Yet the Whig historians as well as the silly Marxists make excuses for this and call it 'progress.'
Who can tell what was lost? Much of the legacy of the ancient English - riches and treasures of Christian culture and art we can barely conceive, seriously - were destroyed with the monasteries and abbeys - that were among the sublimest buildings, not just in England or Europe but the world - by Henry and his goons and the demented puritans through avarice, cowardice and fanaticism within decades. It is a lesson to all. England for a time before the 'Reformation' was known as the jewel of Christendom and if you want to know why seek out all the ruins that were not so but made so at the command of the fool tyrant Henry VIII.
its difficult to understand blake. he was a mystic poet. imagination not material
I disagree: we live in the manifestation of the collective imagination. It’s only difficult to understand for those who don’t understand that the map is not the territory.
The real world IS the great world of the imagination.
"Mental things alone are real."-Blake
(But one must be careful interpreting him. Error lurks everywhere.)
I believe in Angels, although i haven't seen one yet. I am not Christian by the way.I don't believe in Christianity. Who else believe in Angels.
This is a very old comment. However, I was saved by angels as a young child when I fell into a river. All I remember were the angels keeping me safe before my brother pulled me out of the water.
It's too bad you are rejecting God but accepting angels that he has created. I have had a relationship with him my whole life without reading the bible, but once I finally read Matthew I was blown away to see "This is my God who I have known my whole life!" and went from blind faith to truth faith in Jesus.
Blake was medium.
Paganini?
3:51 that is not what schizophrenia is
BOIL your tea. My take is that Blake was with others "A part of the plan" (the humanitarian)
OH! AAAaand WHY!?? (?) Does the English gentleman of the British Library infofiiiilm -insist that you can compare spirituality to dualism without psychosis styled> :So, just EITHER take Ayahuvasca OR Psychedelics *abstract plural -to achieve blood, and gift?
What has me ALARMED is that the British Library is trying to tell us that: ---> "There is no practice, no patience. Just eat a psychedelic and be healers. *like a pill* (Come on people!!) I DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. +++++ have at it. ❤
did mushrooms grow in the fields he walked
Blake crazy?... certain not!
My droughter is MOnIca BellIUcII.
And your son
it's crazy to think Blake was crazy. nah, just ignorant to think it
Exactly! Such a visionary!
How do we know Blake wasn't eating magic mushrooms on his walks through the fields?! It seems very likely.
he didn't need them
@@edwinsmith3178 By the same logic you could say Pink Floyd and the Beetles didn't need psychedelics. We don't know.
They weren't challenging he was fully Awakened.
Bull crap on drugs or peyote making you awaken.
If you understand mysticism you would completely understand his mind.
He knew who he was and his whole world was Imagination.
He wrote in Allegory just as in the Bible.
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child:
But I am black as if bereav’d of light …
Desecrete William Blake’s grave anyone? Calling all ignorants...
Blake would smack this guy
His poems were boring..but good