Land

A rolling post about possession.

These screengrabs are from Joseph Campbell’s The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

“You used me…for land development!” <---youtube link

There is also a Willie James Jennings lecture that took place in Nashville, he spoke of whiteness and ownership/possession. I will post link as soon I locate it.

It was mentioned once on twitter, I believe pointed out by one Jazz Robertson, that Carl Jung spoke of “possession” and related it back to unhealthy attachment and neurosis. I will share if I can locate this thing.

David Dark speaks of “White Supremacist Antichrist Poltergeist”

I think the most terrifying moment in any movie is the mother in Hereditary trying to get into the attic

What is rightly possessed? What is a single thing that is rightfully in the possession of a person? Possibly only organic matter, your brain, your lung; but even then, when they die, they will join with the earth or atmosphere or whatever…so it’s all stewardship, it will forever change hands

“Take captive every thought”

All that to say, they cannot steal your joy