"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world." ---Federico Garcia Lorca One is the other's strength. They are just too similar. Their pull is like that of a magnet. Even before the twins formally met, they still felt the other's emotion, thoughts, and energy. On an energetic level, the presence of the other twin is so strong it's almost like being with the other half constantly. The brothers' union moves them to live toward their highest destiny -- to walk on fire. They remain divinely tested to the degree that they emit crystal light and pure unconditional love. The level of telepathy shared by the twins lets them almost hear each other out loud -- at times even see each other across distance. The image of union with God through pain was particularly very important to the spirituality of the past, and indeed remains important today since this concept is at the heart of almost all Christian asceticism. Even the American tales of Edgar Allan Poe in which reflect "the complete desire of fusion with the beloved being...ends in vampirism... and]...nervous ecstasy." Sublimation in vampire mythology is always enacted in the surrogate sex act: The relationship between sexual ecstasy and religious ecstasy is represented vividly in St. Teresa of Avila's rapture -- ending by the piercing of her heart with an angle's flaming dart. Her ecstasy is an expression of her spiritual desire to be one with God -- the spiritual reception of God's saint...as St. Teresa serves Him as lover, Even while she actually becomes Him. "One cannot avoid the shadow unless one remains neurotic, and as long as one is neurotic one has omitted the shadow." --Carl Jung. How we live our lives revolves around our ideas about how we define death. What world you end up living in depends at least in part on your use of language. Does the sleep of reason produce monsters? Or does the dream of reason produce monsters? Monsters and nocturnal creatures come alive when reason is inactive. In Hell matters are worse: men kill and devour each other. Art replicates or divulges memory: art as the forgotten, art as experience. What if art does not always reproduce memory? Maybe memory loss is the true source of someone's artistic creative ability? The lesson about Spain's foremost poet/playwright Federico Garcia Lorca is that the poets who are alive are a threat to repression, but dead poets can be safely embalmed as national legends or treasures. The secrets of the past still hold their power for revenge, if exposed. But Garcia Lorca is maybe more important today as a symbol than as a poet. Today things are not so much about Federico Garcia Lorca but about memory and history-- about how poets are given most of their power not by those who love them, but by those who fear them. Dead but dreaming. Don't be a ghost until you are dead... This is the lot to which we are born: we are creatures subject to as many ills of the mind as of the body. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca ("Letters to a Young Therapist" - Vincenzo Di Nicola)"