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  • Ephemeral, a minimalistic yet elegant map set in an otherworldly temple by Stephane "aeternus"

    Planet Unreal - The Ultimate Resource 2008

  • Ephemeral, a minimalistic yet elegant map set in an otherworldly temple by Stephane "aeternus" Perriard, fourth place; and

    SPAWNPOINT.COM - Gaming News Feed 2008

  • A creature of idyll and elegy, he's defined by his youth (and loss (like Daphnis)) -- a puer aeternus who can't be a conventional tragic hero in the overman sense because he's not yet reached the age where he * gets* the deontic modalities society would wrap him up in.

    A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009

  • I, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia Christi Pastor aeternus, c.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • I, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia Christi Pastor aeternus, c.

    RORATE CÆLI 2009

  • The puer aeternus, the 'eternal boy' first identified by Jung in our pantheon of personality types, is a mess of contradictions: charming and unstable, needy but addicted to freedom, guileless yet manipulative.

    Mark Matousek: Life Lessons from Peter Pan 2009

  • Puck -- is a character in much of my fiction, paired with the character of Jack in a Jungian duality of Self and Id. I did not invent Puck, I think, but rather, as the roots of the name should suggest, have simply accessed and articulated one instance of an historical archetype, a puer aeternus, but one who is more Pan than Peter Pan, unashamedly post-pubertal (if not post-coital) in his libidinous liberation.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • I, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia Christi Pastor aeternus, c.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Puck -- is a character in much of my fiction, paired with the character of Jack in a Jungian duality of Self and Id. I did not invent Puck, I think, but rather, as the roots of the name should suggest, have simply accessed and articulated one instance of an historical archetype, a puer aeternus, but one who is more Pan than Peter Pan, unashamedly post-pubertal (if not post-coital) in his libidinous liberation.

    An A-Z Of This Blog Hal Duncan 2007

  • I, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia Christi Pastor aeternus, c.

    Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English 2009

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