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Because poets create language, Jiang says poets create reality through poetry.
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Because poets create language, Jiang says poets create reality through poetry.
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Jiang claims poets are really prophets because they have a divine connection to the universe.
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Jiang provocatively recasts Jesus and Zarathustra as poets rather than religious figures.
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Poets are able to access the universe and summon its memories.
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Jiang claims consciousness remains alive in the universe after death, making it possible through intense meditation to connect with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, or other dead figures.
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Jiang says poets often do not know they are prophets or connected to the monad/divine; prophecy happens through them before they consciously understand it.
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The poet's truth-telling is compulsory: a fire burns inside the poet and must be released or the poet will be unable to sleep, eat, breathe, or survive the pressure.
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Jiang describes poets not as ordinary humans but as the flame itself: messengers of the divine flame whose words still burn after the person is gone.
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"...to a collective understanding of reality. Right? And who creates language? Poets create language. And therefore, poets, through their poetry, create reality onto itself...."
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"...how Homer is able to do this. Homer. How is a poet able to create reality? Okay. So, a poet is unique in the..."
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"...So, every single memory is stored inside the universe. And what poets do is they're able to access this universe. and as a result..."
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"do and when they do that they create epics of poetry okay all right the Iliad now as I keep on discussing when we..."
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"...is seated on the throne of their own soul. Okay? So poets don't actually know their prophet. Poets don't know they're connected to the..."
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"...with the electric life which burns, well, within their words. Okay? Poets are the flame itself. Poets are not human. They are the messengers..."
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"...a portal for God to speak with the universe, with us. Poets are the hierophants of an apprehended inspiration, okay? The mirrors of the..."
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"...we do, it's because of language. Of the language that the poets create, okay? Does it make sense, guys? That's how Homer created civilization...."
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"...to articulate this religion become the elite okay and this includes poets and priests all right poets and priests and at this point in..."
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"...access this truth eternally. Okay? So in this time in history, poets are prophets are teachers. These are the same function."
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"Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we..."
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"...think. Okay? Now it comes on Homer. And Homer is a poet. And back then, there were many poets who went around and told..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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