The powers of the imagination are primary. This is
especially true during the Halloween season.
I use the word “imagination” in its true sense,
i.e. to image, or to make images.
By imagining, the mind’s dormant powers, known to the ancient world metaphorically as will,
knowledge, understanding & assimilation, can be activated.
The imagination,
unleashed, unlocks a world of possibilities, and the mind thinking in isolation
begins to think in harmony with the higher mental faculties.
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My Carnival of
Para-Horror Presentation, H. P.
Lovecraft’s Cosmic Carnival of Horror, is now a 23- minute YouTube video, uploaded by my daughter to
YouTube.
My daughter, Ligeia Leigh
Steadman, a sophomore at Michigan State University, majoring in Japanese,
created the animation & chose the background images, the film-clips &
the music. I supplied the passages from
Lovecraft’s works.
Our presentation explains
why Lovecraft’s brand of horror is truly terrifying in its implications for the
future existence & well-being of humankind.
Our focus is on four
major Lovecraft themes: cosmic indifferentism; humankind’s insignificance in
the universe; humanity’s inability to perceive the reality of the world or to comprehend
the nature of extra-terrestrial entities; and finally, the ultimate nothingness
of the life & the universe that we think we know.
If you are fascinated by Lovecraft’s
philosophy & his horror, fantasy, and sci-fi stories, then you will enjoy our
animation presentation.
In particular, you should study the pyramid,
which points down instead of up, to illustrate just how heavily the burden of
time lies on humankind, and how brief & infinitesimal human life really is
in the grand scheme of things.
JLS
