I am 3/5ths through and on hiatus, I will return but it will never be love (I *did* love *Drive Your Plow* but didn't love *Flights*), I will return, I don't promise to finish it
The greater clustcrackerfuck's static the less this shitty blag be read the increase in what the fuck at my end, another fucking human seeking gross personal profit in disaster
1/as i looked at your flipped photo for some reason i was reminded of something from william blake
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2/this photo is from glenstone - two family members, broadly speaking, have been there and recommended it to me - my brother, who took his young adult children, and my stepsister, who went there with residents of the retirement community my father and her mother used to live in - and as i was writing this comment she called me, which happens only once every few months - she lives in germany and has a russian friend who follows the russian media and so has an entirely different understanding of the armed conflict currently underway on european soil
3/and speaking of things europeans do, when i saw your earlier photo from glenstone i wondered if it is customary to use that location as a pissoir
4/and speaking of henry james, the recent article in nyrb about his american travelogue reminded me of a passage from his brother william james - who discussed how a traveler's report of a trip would depend very much on what mattered to that traveler, what they paid attention to, their usual mood, and so on
5/trying to find that passage, of james, which i recall encountering in the first edition of robert ornstein's the psychology of consciousness, i discovered that the latter is now in its fourth edition, and part of a trilogy, which includes:
God 4.0; On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God” Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
...What does it mean to go beyond our ordinary perception of reality? Why, throughout human history, has almost all of humanity had the concept of transcendence and connection to “the other” – to the “spirit world,” “to God,” or to “the One behind it all?”
Coalescing findings from the shamans of the Ice Age (God 1.0); to the first temples, priests and gods of the Neolithic era and Mesopotamia (God 2.0); to the prophets and the spiritual teachers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (God 3.0), Ornstein’s new book explores how verbal descriptions of a nonverbal transcendental experience, always understood to be metaphorical, gradually became taken as literal truth.
In a stunning unification of modern science, religion and spirituality, the book presents a provocative new view of “God” centered on the quiescent faculty within each of our minds that, if developed, can help to dissolve religious, tribal and cultural biases and usher in a higher level of conscious connection — a new “spiritual literacy” — God 4.0.
“This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood.” — Charles Swencionis, Associate Professor of Psychology, Yeshiva University
“…a stunning tour de force of erudition, deftly summarizing forty thousand years of the human search for spiritual transcendence.” — Lisa Alther, novelist and author of four New York Times best sellers
“I had the great pleasure of interviewing…Ornstein in the 1990s. He was among the core group of thinkers at the forefront of what we now think of as the “consciousness movement” and had the rare gift of combining rigorous scientific methodology with the whimsy and humor of a Sufi storyteller. This, his final book, takes the exploration to a new level – to the very boundary where human consciousness touches the divine.” — Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD Host, New Thinking Allowed
Asset-management, or domination of the many by the control of the few for the benefit of the least is Totalitarianism by any other name.
The only minds capable of such horror are either Megalomaniacal Menaces or Grandiose Delusional montrosities. Rather than fawn over, write peons to or celebrate these monumental asses, we should be putting them in straight jackets and administering 15 milligrams of Haldol.
1/as i looked at your flipped photo for some reason i was reminded of something from william blake
ReplyDeleteMan has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2/this photo is from glenstone - two family members, broadly speaking, have been there and recommended it to me - my brother, who took his young adult children, and my stepsister, who went there with residents of the retirement community my father and her mother used to live in - and as i was writing this comment she called me, which happens only once every few months - she lives in germany and has a russian friend who follows the russian media and so has an entirely different understanding of the armed conflict currently underway on european soil
3/and speaking of things europeans do, when i saw your earlier photo from glenstone i wondered if it is customary to use that location as a pissoir
4/and speaking of henry james, the recent article in nyrb about his american travelogue reminded me of a passage from his brother william james - who discussed how a traveler's report of a trip would depend very much on what mattered to that traveler, what they paid attention to, their usual mood, and so on
5/trying to find that passage, of james, which i recall encountering in the first edition of robert ornstein's the psychology of consciousness, i discovered that the latter is now in its fourth edition, and part of a trilogy, which includes:
God 4.0; On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
...What does it mean to go beyond our ordinary perception of reality? Why, throughout human history, has almost all of humanity had the concept of transcendence and connection to “the other” – to the “spirit world,” “to God,” or to “the One behind it all?”
Coalescing findings from the shamans of the Ice Age (God 1.0); to the first temples, priests and gods of the Neolithic era and Mesopotamia (God 2.0); to the prophets and the spiritual teachers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (God 3.0), Ornstein’s new book explores how verbal descriptions of a nonverbal transcendental experience, always understood to be metaphorical, gradually became taken as literal truth.
In a stunning unification of modern science, religion and spirituality, the book presents a provocative new view of “God” centered on the quiescent faculty within each of our minds that, if developed, can help to dissolve religious, tribal and cultural biases and usher in a higher level of conscious connection — a new “spiritual literacy” — God 4.0.
“This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood.” — Charles Swencionis, Associate Professor of Psychology, Yeshiva University
“…a stunning tour de force of erudition, deftly summarizing forty thousand years of the human search for spiritual transcendence.” — Lisa Alther, novelist and author of four New York Times best sellers
“I had the great pleasure of interviewing…Ornstein in the 1990s. He was among the core group of thinkers at the forefront of what we now think of as the “consciousness movement” and had the rare gift of combining rigorous scientific methodology with the whimsy and humor of a Sufi storyteller. This, his final book, takes the exploration to a new level – to the very boundary where human consciousness touches the divine.” — Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD Host, New Thinking Allowed
Asset-management, or domination of the many by the control of the few for the benefit of the least is Totalitarianism by any other name.
ReplyDeleteThe only minds capable of such horror are either Megalomaniacal Menaces or Grandiose Delusional montrosities. Rather than fawn over, write peons to or celebrate these monumental asses, we should be putting them in straight jackets and administering 15 milligrams of Haldol.