Atlanta

“In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”

(the opening lines of Dante’s Inferno)

“I just think we need a chance as humans to fail in order to discover what actually works, you know? People don’t think there’s a process to being happy.”
— Earnest "Earn" Marks

Surreal. Intimate. Labyrinthian. 

“Twin Peaks with rappers.” - Donald Glover

An All-Star Cast.

“Wild West-y… every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules… There’s no single narrative.” - Donald Glover

Carl Jung once wrote, “The practice of magic consists in making what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner.” This is what the greatest teachers, therapists, and spiritual gurus do. They hand you a container, knowing you will benefit from relating to the contents within, but they also know everything in your left brain will want to make it about the container. So they subvert the container as they hand it to you, leaving you vulnerable before its contents.

Donald Glover is a Magician of this order. The TV show Atlanta is his container.

Atlanta Curious Immersion

November 13, 2023

Calypso Spirits Bar

a word from Jeremy Casper

As always, choose your level of participation:

Atlanta is going to invite us into the mundane, mixed with a sense of something being slightly off or wrong. Our goal, as always, is to accept the invitation. What is your experience of your personhood within your particular time and location? What was drawn out of you as you experienced this quartet’s lives? Where were you invited to travel into your own story?