“What was unreal is real, what was real is unreal.” -Jung, from the Red Book Prior to the fantastic experiences he would later illuminate as the Red Book, Carl Jung considered himself a wholly rational man, a trained scientist and critic of Christianity and other forms of religiosity. Yet through his visionary adventures he was [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Ever since I was a child I have had a contrary streak several light years long. First manifesting in a refusal to do household chores (at least until the day my mother poured a shocking jug of water over my head for not setting the table), I soon graduated into the typical adolescent rebellions of [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
APA Philosophy Referee Hand Sginals (above)Rumors that first Dark Matter Particle has been discoveredUS finally to settle Native American Trust LawsuitWhat Philosophers BelieveHow the iPhone could Reboot Education (which I’ve already seen with my own eyes at Pitt)Tom Waits may be up for a role in the HobbitDavid Bowie and the OccultThe Fortsas BibliohoaxThe Milky [...]
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallises out of the Future Trees Communicate with Aspirin-like Chemical Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys David Foster Wallace’s Toy Cement Mixer “Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I haven’t written much yet publicly on the new perspective or belief system I have been attempting to formulate over this past year, a perspective that I call Ultimate Realism, which is perhaps best summed up by the quote from Patchen’s Memoirs of a Shy Pornogrpaher: “Everything which man can imagine, dream, or conceivably want [...]
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The End of Philosophy. From Adbusters, interesting but the writer went to Pitt, and had one of the same philosophy classes I’m taking there this semester, and I agree its mostly irrelevant, except I’d have to say: don’t expect other people to apply ideas for you, you have to think for yourself. the Age of [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2008
There’s a great essay over on the Dream Studies Portal about the prehistory of lucid dreaming. It seems that many of the kinds of designs found on the walls of paleolithic caves, from spirals and grids to monsters and sex organs, are the kinds of images that are said (by Eliade) to occur in connection [...]
Masks of Mnemosyne (the formation of memory) “freedom depends on the struggle of memory against forgetting.”- Milan Kundera • Memory is accreted (like a seashell, armor, crystal) in our bodies and blood*, taking on a recognizable pattern, a body and meaning that can be called a life. when we are young and have no memory [...]
…which perhaps gives rise to another suggestion of attention (suggestion, as there are no laws): ‘the more you notice yourself the less you notice everything else.’ the first several suggestions are of course: ‘if you notice something once you can notice it again. but you have to notice it the first time.’ and: ‘once you [...]
