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The
Origin of Consiousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 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 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
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focus clouds seen escaping stone
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"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." editingconcepts
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Truth 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." |
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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