Dear Nanetette,
  
Your inspiring suggestion concerning interpreting Yeats’ 
poem The “Second Coming” provides a tremendous revealing 
potential indeed.
Yes the described soaring bird is on the way in a huge 
highly adventuring and also ambiguous flight. The elusive 
nature of Yeats's imagery vocative visionary lyric poem 
raises still important questions to us.
The "gyres", as spirals captured contrary motions inherent 
within the process of history influence us today, being 
situated on new thresholds; facing (again?) a world 
spinning out of control. In which cycles and cataclysmic 
changes does history occur at present ?
Yeats was addressing nationalism and fascism between the 
two world wars. But what if that was only one episode in a 
longer-running drama that is now reasserting itself? What 
could Yeats' anguish over the apparent decline of Europe's 
ruling class (and his occult believes) mean for us today, 
with regard to the dynamics of economics affecting the 
entire world?
What would it mean that the current unsustainable life 
gyres of business (as well as science and technology) is 
sweeping outward, reaching via globalisation its greatest 
expansion?
What does the next (post-apocalyptical?) st/age of what 
you Nanette, call post-postmodernism entail?
However, can we share Yeats' belief that each human mind 
is linked to a single vast intelligence, and that this 
intelligence as "spiritus mundi" (literally "spirit of the 
world") causes certain universal symbols - similar to Carl 
Jung's concept of the collective unconscious - to appear 
in individual minds?
It would be interesting to interpret the falcon-falconer 
image, as that one of the head or intellect as the falcon 
and disconnected from the rest of the body and the body 
sensations and feelings  (heart) as the falconer. How can 
we overcome the separation of mind, emotion and embodiment 
(without loosening a sense of differentiation)?. 
Furthermore, what significance has art and aisthetics play 
for a possible (non-regressive) re-membering and 
re-connection in organisations?

Yeats had written in 1900 that: ‘It is only by ancient 
symbols, by symbols that have numberless meanings besides 
the one or two the writer lays an emphasis upon, or the 
half-score he knows of, than any highly subjective art can 
escape from the barrenness and shallowness of a too 
conscious arrangement, into the abundance and depth of 
Nature. The poet of essences and pure ideas must seek in 
the half-lights that glimmer from symbol to symbol as if 
to the ends of the earth, all that the epic and dramatic 
poet finds of mystery and shadow in the accidental 
circumstances of life’ (‘The Philosophy of Shelley’s 
Poetry’, E&I 87).

What would the enigmatic sphinx-like beast, as described 
in the poem, mean for us today and what is our attitude 
toward the beast in its current forms of tumultuous 
transition?

It would be interesting to compare "The Second Coming" and 
“the poem “A Vision” http://www.yeatsvision.com/

I would like to invite David Kayrouz to our Aacorn-forum! 
He is an very interesting artist and entrepreneur, who 
offers “creative pathways” for organisations. Through 
directly adopting the creative focus of art and artists, 
considering their methods and using their processes, he 
works as a Creative Facilitator in organisations.  As such 
he is operating alongside the organisational framework of 
a company, enhancing, co-ordinating and maintaining 
creative opportunities for continuous internal development 
as well as developing active conduits for creative 
exchange between groups.  Accordingly, he has gained 
important experiences about the relation between dynamics 
between creative thinking and practical applications in 
organisations. Inviting artist like him to our circle 
would certainly be very enriching !
His Email: [log in to unmask]

With all best regards
Wendelin