Nietzsche's Devotional Poem to Dionysus: The Genius of the Heart

[@DustyBurke]

In your lectures on Nietzsche, you inspire my will to learn.

[@thegardenmuse2398]

WOW Nietzsche's personal relationship with Dionysus is beautiful. You have an amazing orators voice!

[@untimelyreflections]

Thank you for your kind words. It is my highest hope to prove Nietzsche wrong, such that he is not the last disciple of Dionysus, but the first disciple of a new beginning.

[@gingerbreadzak]

21:23 🎭 Nietzsche challenges the idea of being satisfied with one's current state, emphasizing the value of dissatisfaction as a sign of holiness. 22:18 🙏 Nietzsche asserts that everyone, regardless of worldly ambition or striving, is equal in the eyes of God, relying on divine grace for salvation. 23:44 🌟 Nietzsche's longing for self-improvement opposes the Christian orientation towards life, encouraging the destruction of the current self to create something better. 26:04 🎵 Dionysus is described as the "tempter god" who entices individuals to experiment, explore, and go beyond conventional boundaries. 30:25 🧪 Experimentation, whether in knowledge or morality, can be seen as a form of temptation, leading individuals to discover truths about themselves and their beliefs. 34:12 🎶 The genius of the heart, akin to a master musician, can elicit beautiful tones and virtues from individuals, inspiring them to seek higher ideals and self-reflection. 37:22 🌌 The new desire fostered by the genius of the heart is to reflect the grandeur of the divine, encouraging self-reflection and a longing for what is above and beyond oneself. 39:12 💪 Nietzsche emphasizes the need to silence self-complacency and egoic voices to allow the inner beauty and potential to emerge, promoting care, gentleness, and grace. 41:02 🏃‍♂ The poem also encourages individuals to slow down, take heed, and appreciate the hidden treasures of grace and spirituality beneath life's surface. 41:28 🌍 Nietzsche emphasizes the importance of slowing down and fully immersing oneself in life experiences rather than rushing through them with a rigorous schedule. 42:30 🌟 Nietzsche reminds us that our time on Earth is limited, and we should savor our experiences, similar to how the Italians approach life. 43:01 🌼 Viewing the world with child-like innocence and newness can make it more beautiful and meaningful. 43:27 🌟 Nietzsche describes encountering a god like Dionysus as a source of both beauty and terror, leading to personal transformation. 44:55 🤔 Nietzsche suggests that our deepest feelings often exist in an untranslatable form beyond rational understanding. 45:59 🧐 Nietzsche views the feeling of dissatisfaction and longing as a powerful and healthy force that drives us towards self-improvement and a fuller life. 47:57 🧘‍♂ Nietzsche considers himself a wanderer and emphasizes the importance of embracing the genius of the heart, represented by Dionysus, to enrich one's life. 49:22 🧠 Nietzsche believes that reason exists in various forms within the unconscious mind, including different gods or passions, each with its own philosophy. 51:21 📜 Nietzsche challenges the notion that philosophers create values consciously, suggesting that values may arise from the unconscious or muses. 52:51 🙌 Nietzsche acknowledges that the modern world may not be receptive to the idea of reviving a Dionysian religion or philosophy. 56:21 😇 Nietzsche describes a yearning for natural innocence, shamelessness in embracing desires, and a love for human nature. 57:50 💪 Nietzsche envisions a stronger, more evil, more profound, and more beautiful form of humanity, free from moral constraints. 01:02:38 🌟 Dionysus praises humanity and the genius of the heart silences self-satisfaction, teaching us to listen. 01:03:07 🤯 Dionysus loves and affirms what's human, even the evil aspects, but warns against complete identification with this archetype. 01:04:03 🧘 Dionysus, as the god of celebrating humanity, can learn from us humans, emphasizing our humane nature. 01:05:18 📚 Nietzsche's first book, "The Birth of Tragedy," explores the artistic forces of Apollo and Dionysus in Greek culture. 01:07:16 🍷 Dionysus represents the dissolution of the self through ritual and drunken revelry, serving a social utility. 01:08:42 💡 Nietzsche questions the need for humans to return to a state of animal mindlessness and its social utility. 01:09:34 🧐 Socrates, although an opponent of the Dionysian, can be seen as a genius of the heart for humbling others through intellectual combat. 01:12:57 🌪 Dionysus symbolizes the regaining of lost connections with our passions, leading to self-mastery and style in character. 01:14:45 ☀ Nietzsche's vision is about giving, sharing, and embracing life, similar to Zarathustra's praise of the sun in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." 01:16:10 🧙 Nietzsche's ideal is not to become an Übermensch but to entice oneself and others toward greater strength and health.

[@AquariusGate]

A great nuanced view of Nietzsche, thank you. You have an easy listening voice and a relaxed pace. Quickly becoming one of my favourite creators. 'Genius of the heart' seems a very Aquarian approach to wisdom. I see him as a herald of that coming age, a far seeing visionary in his time.

[@eddiebeato5546]

Thanks for your excellent lectures! I grew up a Catholic, then a Protestant, and finally, upon reading the writings of F. Nietzsche, an ambivalent devotee of the Ancient Greeks of Dionysus, still trying to renounce anything to do with the perorations and philosophic indulgences of Voltaire and Nietzsche. My struggle all along my solitary footpath with Nietzsche has been trying to denounce such pagan free-spiritedness and deities, believed to be demonic, “an abomination,” according to the Christian religion. Christendom, perhaps a slave morality, as carefully crafted and laid down in the canon of the New Testament (don’t forget the masters of morality, who, in their exegesis and hermeneutics of the Holy Scriptures) have decided what is inspired, spurious or apocryphal therein. The main problem with Christianity is the leveling of the noble and virtuous with the average and mediocre, hence, the Christian church, in the last agonies of nihilism as observed in their ever-drifting away from the core teachings of the Pauline missives (glossed-over with Platonism), a widespread phenomenon, once described by the more conservative Catholics (In the Second Vatican) but with the most recent scandals, a new religious crowd is emerging flippantly sneering at the high-flown ideals of the founders of Christianity. Of course, to every one a spiritual landscape, but this does not justify the din and noise of the new child of Christianity. The Christian of our times, often seeking the backing of science to justify the “Word of God,” may have struck a pact with Mephistopheles, and now the child of faith has been duped into believing that the climatic latitudes of our times, science, technology and evolution, are the highest points ever achieved in the annals of humanity! Such Christians, deep inside may suspect that their religion is hardly anachronistic, and hence, they are ever (always) attempting to bringing faith and reason into one accord. But this is a thankless task! Surprisingly, ufologists and new agers, are now winning proselytes all over the world with the chariots of the gods! Cool! Another hard-to-crack nut with Christianity, whether denominational or non-denominational, is that while it has sought to bring the Kingdom of God on Earth, the proliferation of sectarianism and schism, coupled with the revolt of the masses, the triumph of the Ghetto-god is now threatening to overthrow the very institutions, treasure-troves, classical literatures, books by the finest authors of antiquity, and the priceless heritage of the Ancient Greeks, are nowadays being trampled and torn to pieces by the new barbarians of our modern times. Consider for instance “Letter to the Philippians” Chapter 4, verse 8, and see what a chasm between the blissful music of J. S. Bach when compared with the conflicting music of our times. If there was anything noble in the Christian religion, it was often fashioned after the ideas of the Ancient Greeks. Today, such Christians, however totally versed in the “Holy Scriptures,” cannot be said to have ears and eyes for the sublime heavenly music of the higher spheres of Pythagoras. A persistent question concerning the historic development of Christianity, a religion of hope, love and “misericordia,” has always been wedded with the political agendas of the Roman Empire, whose ruthless state machine had somehow become enervated or corrupt in the fickle arbitrariness of power and weakness. Edward Gibbon blames Christianity for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, but I would argue that the appropriation of the religion of mercy, once intended as the consolation of the oppressed and downtrodden, had finally sapped down the sturdy spirit of the Ancient Romans. Such reflections and meditations could shake us to the core, that even among the finest and loftiest ideas of sin and redemption, through Jesus Christ, the mustard seed of weakness and capitulation, taking roots in the enfeebled minds of the youth and old alike, would finally bring about the collapse of the Roman Empire. Constantine’s conversion to Christianity was probably another ingenious political propaganda, whose well-known subjects would finally accept the stinging flagellation of existence with resignation and even obedience to the authorities (peruse Letters to the Romans by the Apostle Paul). Of course, as expected, there will always be some twisting-twitching changes in the reformed church of God, and now I notice that they are revising some key-scriptures as perhaps incurring conflicts with our christened ideas of love, prowess and enlightenment: sic, “we love the sinner but hate the sin.” But since sin and body and spirit are inseparable from each other, for we are born in sin (Psalm 51) then I have no clue how can we love the sinner without the stains of sin? The solution is to have him washed in the blood of the lamb! Thank you! After all these centuries of Christian evangelization, alleluia! let us measure the greatness and magnificence of the Ancient Greeks of Pericles with the spiritual heights of my contemporary “man of God.” What a blasphemy to compare the essentially apocalyptic mind of the Christian of the latter days, how botched and destitute of the higher skies in the unsuspected potencies of the soul, how lackadaisical and uninteresting when compared with the sublime, calm welkin of the blessed children of Aurora who built the Glorious Parthenon! Of course, the greatest harvest of Christianity, either of music or arts, has been but a tentative approximation (return) to the ethos and zeitgeist of the Ancient Greeks. Of course, with the prowess of science and technology, we are far better-off than the Ancient Greeks, but I am not sure whether our skies are as sublime, beautiful and divine when decried from the cultural lenses of our nihilistic times? I am not sure. True! Since the fireworks of the Rennaissance to the lower nadir-point of our decadent times (the end of the nineteenth century), that is, if we believe to have any parameter (prototypes) to scale and gauge the highs and lows of millennia, our Western Civilization has only looked back to the past, however nostalgically, to seek some idealized times, a dreamtime when men and gods walked together, shared their fate...and even reveled in the countless challenges of existence. Nevertheless, how profound are the subtle layers of religion and mythology when trawling the subconscious swamps of peoples and cultures, how misleading the appearances, how deceptive the constant mummeries and falsehoods of religion passing for the glories of the gods! After two thousand years, the inhabitants of the Caribbean islands, the Hispaniola (shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Cuba and Puerto Rico, today believed to have been converted into the Christian religion, are still under the sway of their ancestors, and from such unconscious religious threads, the skein of their destinies is said to be inextricably bound-up with their past! Amazing! The psychological tapestry of the child of our inquiry tends to extrapolate his/her past into the future! Santeria and Voodoo, despite the great efforts of the Christian missionaries to converting the collective psyche of the heathenish Caribbeans, the latter have only incorporated those elements, teachings and doctrines suitable and congenial to their peculiar psychological make-up as a people of the soil! Petrichor (the peculiar scents and “mística” of lands and peoples) could well explain the cosy manger and rapport of religious feelings! Primitive or modern, we are in the same boat! The crisis of our times, may point to a crisis of our little place in a universe ever growing monstrous, more dismal and meaningless without the blessed deities of yore. Who is Dionysus? Was he a real entity? When studying such deities, should I consider the epochal niveau of our times, our much technologically-advanced society, i. e., our understanding of medicine and psychology, when assessing the amazing teachings of the ancient gods?i

[@tomtsu5923]

What in the world

[@s.lazarus]

"treasure-troves, classical literatures, books by the finest authors of antiquity, and the priceless heritage of the Ancient Greeks, are nowadays being trampled and torn to pieces by the new barbarians of our modern times. " I wonder whom these "barbarians" are and where is this actually happening.

[@eddiebeato5546]

Best answer will be on the “Revolt of the Masses” by Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset.

[@brentoniverson1020]

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[@cheri238]

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your lectures. With the deepest appreciation and respect for your wisdom. ❤️

[@spiralations7304]

Underrated post

[@xrendezv0usx]

Strong work, thank you!

[@aydnofastro-action1788]

Love the channel! As much as FN criticizes the project of astrology in Beyond Good and Evil. Here we have the most poetic lines that reflect the Heart ❤of astrology. " to lie still as a mirror, that the deep sky may mirror itself in them. "

[@gaylene-zm5ke]

What a blessing to my ear ❤ beautiful 🌹 well presented.

[@lukailincic2411]

I think it's important to understand when talking about 'vanity' how the word refers to completely different things depending on who's uttering it. Here we talk about a kind of vanity in the sense of being closed off, even prudish towards growth, change, development. But, what we're used to hearing however is that the 'vain' are the overly and overtly proud, those who dare too much to offend the dominant sensibilities, who feel themselves above moral judgement. The former are self-satisfied in the sense of passivity towards self-improvement/change, the latter in the sense that they simply enjoy their desires and the life in them and let it express itself largely unconstrained. So I don't think that we should conflate how Nietzsche uses words such as vain or loud with how we're used to hearing them from the mouths of (cultural and moral) Christians. The way I understand Dionysus, he leads us towards enjoyment and feeling and away from anxiety and pathos. But just like a tree must reach both skyward and downwards toward Hell, so must we be able to enjoy both overt and silent revelry, have a taste for both the extreme and the delicate.

[@yoyodynepropulsion6484]

Hell yeah

[@missread5932]

Thanx❤

[@SlickDissident]

Praise and gratitude. An Ariadne episide would be splendid. I've quite relished your offerings. I'd love to tempt you to deny a claim that THE Archetypal collective Web slinger, the Jungest Avenger of Philemon, the spandexed red~spy agent 488, and YggDrasil's Hanged Man upon the southern Crux of Saint Peter Parkour, was not named Carl. 🕸

[@Entheos84]

This was absolutely beautiful! May we all embrace the good parts in ourselves and reach into the depths to become even better versions of ourselves to serve as catalysts for others by way of experimentation ❤

[@bolm1]

I think the French and Spanish have a similar attitude to life as the Italian one you discussed

[@shaunkerr8721]

Nietzsche initiated himself into the cult of Dionysus as Nepolean crowned himself King.

[@jakemcnamee9417]

Did Dyonsis bestow blessings of madness upon one of his devoted philosophers?

[@untimelyreflections]

That, or CADASIL.

[@369jwillow]

Please do one on MLM schemes.

[@tomtsu5923]

Bump