Natives and Disney

     Why do I love Walt Disney and the Natives? The reasons in common, may be these: they love nature; in their primitivism, they do reach the religious essence; they honor another reality, they see the whole creation permeated with equal life, they identify with animals, they open doors to wonderful worlds.... What else? Disney was reported to not want to make a garden in one of his houses, in order to let nature wild, which he preferred. One more thing: they look at artifice with delight and poetry... Have you seen an Indian at the computer? It's beautiful, he kinds of communes with it, as if diving in the screen, and handles it with respect and familiarity... Like Walt handled technology as well.....

Disney "Impossible Plausible": Limitlessness

     When my son was a little, he asked me to tell the sun to stop "following" him, because he was hot. For toddlers, there are no laws of physics, everything is possible, and even the sun can be personalized. They are generally in awe with things, because they see them as if just created.

 They are in a state of poetry, a state that frees everything from the banality of habit; the imprisonment of functionality; the mediocrity of taking-for-grantedness. 
It is something of this awe and innocence that Walt Disney must have preserved for creating the limitless world of animation, overruling physical laws,  personalizing creation and presenting every being and every little thing infused with a primordial, original life.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

     In telling Walt Disney's life, The WDF museum shows his life as the life of, the fight for, and the victory of creativity.

 And creativity, the triumph of spirit over matter,soul over self,

 and freedom over submission, 

is the real happy ending in this world.

Disney Harmony

Walt Disney was the paradoxical harmony of
Impulse and Pledge
Instinct and Determination
Fantasy and Planning
Flight and Grounding
Leadership and Candy
Fight and Faith

Simply Disney

It is as simple and as complex:

Walt Disney brought the best, 

almost the impossible out of people 

because he gave and brought almost the impossible out of himself.

Disney Enchantment

"It takes a lot of courage to see the world 

in all its tainted glory and still love it"
Oscar Wilde. 

Remembering Walt Disney, I say,

" It took him a lot of courage to see the world

in all its tainted glory and still enchant it"

Disney Mickey

Mickey is now considered a corporate logo. He was criticized as lacking appeal for being "sanitized" and taking second place to Donald Duck. But everything Mickey was, having become History, became, also, timeless. All he represented passed from the awareness of everyday life into the atemporality of the unconscious mind. Mickey is no longer just "this" or "that", he is a symbol.

Disney Miracle

Magic is the beauty of fantasy, Miracle is grace

Magic is freedom from the laws of reality, Miracle is blessed reality; 
Magic is multicolor, Miracle is oneness; 
Magic is what Walt Disney created; 
Miracle is his coming into this world.

Disney Intensity

Watch one of Walt Disney's Golden Age animated movies, or clips of Disney himself, when you can see his spontaneity; the synchrony of his movements and expressions with his soul;
how at ease he is in waving, 
or in kissing the mouth of his dog,
or smelling a rose, or talking, by the pool, to baby Diane,
and you learn the truth of a most beautiful paradox: 

     Intensity is power, but the power of delicacy.

Disney Mother's Day

  

 Other than his unique communication with children, Walt Disney also the intuition to know their world,  the courage to make it  and the passion to share it.  He also had the maternal self-detachment of generosity: His fictional offsprings were destined to delight the offsprings of all mothers in the world!

   As an homage to this mother's day, women and their young children should watch and cherish a Disney cartoon together!

Happy Disney Mother Day to all!

Disney Religiosity

 

 Real religiosity is to see heart in matter, life in things,

and meaning in what is apparently inhuman and inanimate;

everything being manifestations of the divine anima. 

Because he felt that, Walt Disney re invented 

 animation as the expression of this alive interconectedness.

 

 

 

 

 

all inclusive interconectedness.

Disney Gratefulness

 Life may be a constant lesson in humbleness. 

That is its spiritual generosity. 

Some people take it that way, 

and that is their gratefulness. 

Walt Disney was the most life grateful person: 

 He was constantly overcoming himself.

Disney Real Ecology

 

 

Walt Disney was the primordial ecologist, not just because he loved and respected nature, but because he expressed, in his animation, the truth that took modern science much study to assert: 

EVERYTHING is connected EVERYTHING is interdependent!

EVERYTHING shares one common Meaning!

In this small example of the interconnectedness of Disney animation,  we can see Mickey's ears equally participating in the manifestation of Mickey's fear,  as he anticipates what is to come.

 

 

 

Disney Awe

   

One cannot love highly enough

a man who fought to share with all

 the unparalleled awe he felt for life!

This man was Walt Disney.

Contemplative Disney

   Walt Disney's contemplative side is clearly shown in his love of miniatures, his power to see the immensity of the small. Before a tiny setting, or a small world, one, like a god, imagines stories, becomes its characters, at the same time of creating them. One is creator and creature at the same time.

Disney Eternity

"But time never mattered to Walt except as an annoyance. 

The only thing that mattered to him was that he had done everything in his power to make the cartoon as excellent as it could be" Gabler. 

In fact, what is time for someone who lives the timeless urge to give his best? 

Someone who, in the constant measuring up to his own dignity, 

had a pact with eternity?

Disney Animism

To animate is not really to give movement, but to give life (Animus means to live). 

Walt Disney gave life to the drawings of things, animals and plants because he gave them soul. 

Like the Great Creator with original creation, he identified with his creatures in one common heart; to that extent, Disney declared that he naturally thought of anything as capable of having the same feelings as himself.

Disney Confession

  " He (the white man) is the victim of a civilization whose ideal is the unbotherable, poker-faced man and the attractive, unruffled woman. Even the gestures get to be calculated. The spontaneity of the animal-you find it in small children, but it's gradually trained out of them". Walt Disney. 

  
    Is there any doubt that in children and animals Walt Disney found the reflex of his own integrity and authenticity?

Disney Universe

When at the deck of my apartment by the sea, Uli, my little nephew, was told "This is Eleonora's house", to which he replied: No! It is the house of the Sea!" 

The Sea, for this toddler, appearing so powerful and majestic, took over the house like a much greater personality than myself. The soul and heart of the sea, like in Walt Disney's universe, was recognized and asserted!

Disney Courage

Recklessness is lack of fear. Courage is the overcoming of it.
Walt Disney, an example of courage, must have been intensely aware of fear
(he had nightmares into adulthood about the fear of being punished by his father)  as well as of
the dignity and coherence of overcoming it. 

Like when he, at fourteen,
held the arms of Elias, who was ready to beat him.