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The Origin of Consiousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes

The notion is proposed that a few thousand years ago, mankind heard 'voices' - that these voices, which they readily interpreted as being of either gods or of their ancestors, were in fact, the voices of the one hemisphere speaking to the other. That the separation of the two hemispheres during that time made the voices project into full-fledged aural hallucinations. The notion is well backed-up. The implications are tremendous. It was these voices that organized and shaped society in absence of consciousness - it was these voices that held authority, and the moral imperative. The book traces the presence of the voices, their lessening frequency over time, first to prophets, then to poets, then finally to oracles and madmen. When we stopped hearing the voices, the author argues, the voices of gods, that was when we concluded that we must have erred. That there is sin, and accordingly redemption. Before that...the gods spoke to us.

Vico's Science of Imagination
Donald Phillip Verene

Sometime around the 1700's - Giambattista Vico put together his concepts of truth, imagination and memory. Truth, according to Vico, is not a matter of Cartesian Dualism. In fact, it comes in at least 3 flavors; the certum (the certain), the verum (the true), and the factum (the made). Reality itself is guided by two different principles - there is the Imaginative Univeral - that which reigned in the Age of Gods, and in the Age of Heroes, and there is the Intelligle Universal, which comes later (read now) during the Age of Men. I have read many books, and empathized with most of them, that can see that there's something wrong with 'reason' as it stands - Vico goes back and retraces another viable alternative, and Verene elaborates this very well.

Books By Philip K. Dick

  • VALIS
    How should I introduce this? Okay, let me try this; Christ is Zebra is Valis is a Satellite placed in orbit, placed there a long, long, time ago by the Nommu (roughly - alien fish from Sirius B, known by the Dogon tribe in Mali...) to help us out of the darkness and back into the light. How does that sound? Or let me try this; it's a story of a pain-addict fool's quest for the saviour. A quest into which he attempts to involve his friends. His friends are divided between the faithful, who need no proof and the atheist, who doesn't believe it can be proved. Almost...but not quite. Finally let me try this; a great book, a towering achievement, a journey into the gutter in search for value. A retreival of value.
  • GALACTIC POT-HEALER
    A pot-healer - out of work. An alien god in need of help. A sunken cathedral. A book gone wild. This is probably the most definitive example (of the PKD books I've read...) of beauty erupting from sheer junk. It's a difficult book to recommend - I see here that, in fact, a book can be great without being good. There, that's what I mean.
  • FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID
    Jason Taverner leads a happy life. The future is a bright place, at least for anybody who's anybody. But Taverner wakes up one day and becomes just that - nobody. It is as though he's never existed - and the police-state big/brother/everyone-is-a-snitch future he's in cares for him not one little bit. His friends don't know who he is, he is a man stuck with phone numbers he shouldn't have. The policeman has him. Taverner is the ideal scapegoat for a crime. It is normal. It is usual. However, in a moment of sheer and arbitrary grace, Taverner is given his liberty. He has done nothing. Commited no crime. It is a book about kindness, about understanding, about the value of grief, and starring (and this is not a word I use lightly) grace.

 

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"Powering symbolics and magicked diagrammatons impress themselves upon visionating neuronal systems as ascended alkaloid levels atomize facades revealing endogenous mandala factories witch focus clouds seen escaping stone gravity wells, on their way haum."

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The Ultimate Band List

Band Browsing Brothel. Linked up well enough but a bit ad-y. If you don't know where you're going it'll probably help get you somewhere else.


The Gnosis Archive

Gnosticim. If you need a breaker-inner, read the following quote:

"Out of the mist of the beginning of our era there looms a pageant of mythical figures whose vast, superhuman contours might people the walls of another Sistine Chapel. Their countenances and gestures, the roles in which they are cast, the drama which they enact, would yield images different from the biblical ones on which the imagination of the beholder was reared, yet strangely familiar to him and disturbingly moving. The stage would be the same, the theme as transcending: the creation of the world, the destiny of man, fall and redemption, the first and the last things. But how much more numerous would be the cast, how much more bizarre the symbolism, how much more extravagant the emotions! Almost all the action would be in the heights, in the divine or angelic or daimonic realm, a drama of pre-cosmic persons in the supranatural world, of which the drama of man in the natural world is but a distant echo. And yet that transcendental drama before all time, depicted in the actions and passions of manlike figures, would be of intense human appeal: divinity tempted, unrest stirring among the blesses Aeons, God's erring Wisdom, the Sophia, falling prey to her folly, wandering in the void and darkness of her own making, endlessly searching, lamenting, suffering, repenting, laboring her passion into matter, her yearning into soul; a blind and arrogant Creator believing himself the Most High and lording it over the creation, the product, like himself, of fault and ignorance; the Soul, trapped and lost in the labyrinth of the world, seeking to escape and frightened back by the gatekeepers of the cosmic prison, the terrible archons; a Savior from the Light beyond venturing into the nether world, illuminating the darkness, opening a path, healing the divine breach: a tale of light and darkness, of knowledge and ignorance, of serenity and passion, of conceit and pity, on the scale not of man but of eternal beings that are not exempt from suffering and error."

From the preface of 'The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity' - By Hans Jonas


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The Church Of The SubGenius

I could try to explain. Brush yourself up on JVHV-1, find out what's really going on inside your very own nostrils, sharpen up your anti-pink mental armoury, and save your soul. Cheap. If you meet somebody who looks like a car-salesman smoking a pipe, be very nice to him and give him all your money.


The Onion - Number One In News

They were there when Clinton forgot to hit save on the federal budget, they were there when the Bantu tribesman used an IBM modem to crush a nut, they were even there when that big, lovable dog resolved the crisis in Zaire! You want news folks!? This is where to get it! It's at least as credible as those inane misanthropoid shitthangs at CNN (and no, they're not getting linked...)


The Truth

It's there. Not exactly the way I would've said it. But it's there and it's basically correct. Check it out...

Giordano Bruno

"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno,1580

 

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Worst Case Scenario - dEUS

If you're at all interested in music - you should check this out! I don't know what's happening in Belgium, whether it's something in the water or the fallout from Chernobyl, but I do know this; some of the best music I've heard in ages...years...decades? Goes from mellow-sweat-funk jazz to screaming punk and back to bliss - absolutely wonderful. Vocal texturing mixed in with what can only be called irreverant riffing and funky drumming. Lyrics going from the sublime to the patently silly. No two songs even sound like they could be by the same band - but, uh...well...they are. In the words of 'Great American Nude' - one of the tracks; "That's what makes a kilo heavier than a gram, man."

Symphony No. 3 - Henryck Gorecki

If you've seen the movie 'Fearless' then you've already heard some of this at the very end. It's wondeful. Mostly instrumental (I don't like opera vocals...sue me...) except for some harmonies somewhere down the middle. If angels came in full dolby stereo - this is most probably what they'd sound like.


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