After a long silence ( Read more... )

The aroma of the pleroma,
the body of my (m)other,
Pluto and Sun at zenith,
a smell of bread with butter.

At the altar, the ego to the alter ego.

"We shall not be what we have been, but we shall begin to be other."
-- Joachim of Fiore

To be: the other, the alter, the altar. There is (no) more chance, for those who have ears to hear.

...in a time after time,
a place after place,
an anchorite, withdrawn
into the desert,
knee deep in the flux, between

radicals and rhizomes:
no points, only lines --
no lines, only edges --
no edges, only

complex fluctuations
of intensities
intricately entwined --
the sight of the blind
in a time after time....

"Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments ( Read more... )

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer ( Read more... )

I've done a lot of research on shamanism and daoism lately, and so I've come across heaps of new-age drivel that I've had to separate from the thoughtful and critical texts that have found their way into publication. It's wonderful that there are so many publications available on issues relating to trance, transcendence, and self-transformation, ( Read more... )

A dualistic understanding of politics has pervaded Western Civilization since its inception in the philosophy of hellenistic greece, specifically in Platonic philosophy and its allegorical representation of the relationship between scientific/philosophical knowledge and political power in terms of a cavern or cave which indicates an ontological and ( Read more... )

The Sanskrit word "nirvana" (pali "nibbana") has no semantic or etymological similarity to the English word "Enlightenment" or the German "Aufklarung." But the translation is inevitable, and within the gaps of this translation, the tathagatagarbha (is).

From Wang Yangming:
Man is the mind of the universe: at bottom, heaven and earth and all things are my body. Is there any suffering or bitterness of the masses that is not disease and pain in my own body?

(page 27, Yamauchi, T. "Wang Yang-Ming." In Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, ed. Joy A. Palmer, 27-33. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.)