...all that we call psychological p...

...all that we call psychological projections are the movies of the angels--the hearth movies of angels are qualities of light held as if in mid air--any gathering of dust spots in the light records the passage of angels

Stan Brakhage, "Angels" (EB 138)

Jean Cocteau was riding in the elevator up to Pablo Picasso's apartment when the angel Heurtebise appeared to him. Cocteau, devastated by the agency of the death of his lover and protege the twenty-year-old bard Raymond Radiguet, was high onward opium and in a state of hypnogogic hallucination, which he described as "a be still ...