INVISIBLE COLLEGE PRESENTS
JOB STUDY
The Book of Job for the Aquarian Age
4 WEDNESDAYS AT NOON EST | JANUARY 8, 15, 22, 29
ALL SESSIONS RECORDED
Job’s story is a very old one– older, probably, than writing itself, and older than the culture that preserved it as sacred text.
And it concerns an enduring human problem: the problem of suffering.
The problem of suffering and the question of endurance and the mystery of justice and injustice as we perceive them and experience them on earth.
But Job, I think, is also about the wager between speech and silence, the weighing of eloquence against bloviation and blather, about the question of dignity under impossible circumstances.
Or it’s a book– in a way like Paradise Lost, and the Jesus story, about rebellion and surrender.
I am interested in how language encounters the outer limits of human experience and endures.
What it means to be corrupted and to seek wisdom– or to get to the bottom of things– in corrupt circumstances.
I am curious, also, about the enduring, the perennial, the inexhaustible artwork.
So we’ll read Job through two films, and through the eyes of William Blake.
Commentary, no matter how brilliant, will always remain distant and supplementary to our work.
Always in Invisible College we are reading ourselves bifocally with text at issue: our task is not to repeat or support a canonical interpretation, but rather to draw energy, real living energy, from a story, from enduring poetry, from what happens to us when we plunge in.
-Ariana
required texts:
THE BOOK OF JOB, Stephen Mitchell
A SERIOUS MAN (film), Coen Brothers
CHINATOWN (film), Roman Polanski
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE BOOK OF JOB, William Blake
supplementary:
TURBULENT INDIGO, Joni Mitchell
WISDOM BOOKS, Robert Alter
ANSWER TO JOB, C.G.Jung
ENCOUNTER WITH THE SELF:
A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, Edward F. Edinger
prerequisites / studies in parallel:
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INANNA: 12 DAYS OF SUMER
GNOSTIC SUMMER
your enrollment includes:
+ 4 live study group sessions: Wednesdays 1/8 - 1/29 at 12pm EST (always recorded & uploaded to your dashboard directly after session)
+ ORALS exam on 2/14 (optional & highly recommended)
+ complimentary access to selections from Invisible College video archive
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FORMERLY $444
NOW $399
PHOTO: COLLIER SCHORR
special thanks to richard joon yoo