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guruilla » Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:09 pm wrote:What's redemptive, or at least redeemable, about PKD's vision is that it began as inspiration for fiction and he could never quite forget that he was a writer of fiction even when he was writing about how it was ALL TRUE.
The exegesis is exhausting and I think it was meant to be, that PKD was trying to consume all of his intellectual resources by creating system after system to "explain" human consciousness, starting and ending with his own 2/3/74 experience and then discarding them and recycling the parts into the next one, and so on.
It's also tragic because underneath seems a plaintive cry of despair that he can't simply let go of the need to understand/explain/conceptualize and just live.
Yet I think it was also his saving grace in a way, that he could never settle into any one interpretation and so he was incapable of becoming a snake-oil salesman of belief. Instead he left a morass of mental confusion & existential ennui disguised as an oeuvre.
Maybe the message is the message of every mirror: quit checking your hair, turn away, and live.
Maybe the message is the message of every mirror: quit checking your hair, turn away, and live.
PufPuf93 » Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:55 pm wrote:Links to a scan of PKDs Tagore letter that he mailed to 85 people.
https://ubikcan.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/tagore1.jpg
https://ubikcan.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/tagore2.jpg
Obviously some of the people behind said blatant anti-environmentalism were informed enough to understand the consequences of what they were pushing.
Makes me shudder to try imagining what they might have believed would make up for the negative consequences
backtoiam » Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:20 am wrote:I'm not having good luck with the buttons on this forum. I meant to include more info on my last post but I didn't do it right, so I will do it here.
I don't know what "i see what you did there" means but maybe I should clarify the initial premise.
I'm all about people activating their superman intuitive powers if it can be done in a safe manner. But there are literally small children as young as 12 years old reading things on the internet, attempting to become a super mind expanded guru, and then reporting "hearing weird whispers" they that ASSUME is their guardian angel or higher self. This is dangerous in the extreme and could seriously impair a young and aspiring light bulb head.
I don't want to post the following site in a manner that will bring the web bots here and proliferate this because I think it is dangerous for these poor little young kids that have no idea what sort of gate they are cracking open. I read every single comment on this site. These poor little kids have no idea what could happen, which "current" they could open, and never close again...
I riddled this address with X's so that maybe the web bots wont track it and I am responsible for proliferating "premature" spiritual experience in a harmful way. Remove the X's, read all the comments, and you will see what I mean.
http:X//conscXiouslifeXnews.comX/how-to-opeXn-third-Xeye-piXneal/113X8045/
General Patton » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:38 am wrote:
Your higher self wants you to masturbate and eat chocolate.
tapitsbo » Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:43 pm wrote:I'm sure there is a lot of truth to what you're saying guruilla, but I also have niggling doubts about the psyche operating entirely as a self-contained autonomous system of fragments, anonymous or otherwise.
guruilla » Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:24 am wrote:That's a really interesting book, now called Entity Possession: Freeing the Energy Body of Negative Influences.
Though I strongly suspect that these "entities" are fragments of our psyches turned anonymous, not some nonhuman phenomena from "out there." (hence the desire for chocolate!)
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