GENIUS FORUMS

You're projecting, Dennis! You see what you desire to see, perhaps? Everything I am writing about stems from 'mercurial' possibilities, both of seeing and acting. My notions about the Trickster have simply become more thorough, more refined. Man's whole intellectual structure is 'tricksterism', and ...

Sure Dennis, but in the realm of 'what seems' is sometimes the area of the greatest 'projections'. One thing about the Jungian frame is that it is too easy to 'project' it on the whole world, all relationships. Overall this is what the classic Jungian does: the narrative they look at is chemically c...

The transaction is: man's relationship with 'woman', if you wanted to put it that way. In the broadest of terms, man handles material culture: he builds it, oversees it. The beneficiary is 'woman'. So, what is the exchange? It is exactly in that. What you get out of it...is your very self. You came ...

The purpose of this thread is to explore---I guess one must say 'once again' insofar as it has been done so often---the notion of masculine freedom. It seems to me, it seems clear, that the foundation of the freedom to pursue spirituality or 'enlightenment' that is treasured by the founders of this ...

Seeker wrote : Alex, all of your writing is either critical analysis or very detailed.... I say it is impossible to state one's own beliefs and opinions while writing in such a way. For me to understand anything of what is going on in your mind, you would have to be clear on your agenda, what are y...

But one might also say, or propose, that in actual fact and in truth, this 'knowledge' that arises when one internalizes this subjunctive truth, is really not so new at all; not so useful; not so relevant. If only because it has been done a million times before. After a while, one actually tires of ...

Seeker wrote : So alex, deep down, do you already know what I'm saying to be true? That your existence is dream-like and illusory, and that thought is the only thing interfering with the obviousness of this? Existence is certainly dream-like, if only because our subjectivity, imagination, hopes, lo...

Seeker wrote : It is my belief that all sensual formations, including that of the brain and body, exist only in those sensual experiences.... that the mind exists independent of body and is not a cause of the body. That the logic we have attached to try and justify these things as being real and ph...

I was really mostly joking about the Othello interpretation. It would, naturally, be the kind of writing and the ideas that interest me. I don't think they are of much interest to the Forum, or perhaps only interesting to a few. In the past, when I get these 'signs' about my writing or.my presence, ...

Do you think I should pull together more Tio Fox stories and bring back Uncle Tiger from The Forest of Ultimate Reality? Or do you wish clarification about Exploding Metaphors?

You votin' Black or White this election? ;-)

I much preferred the tone and energy of that post. Quite different. Not only do I aspire to write (produce a publishable work), but I am doing just that. But you can't write, at least not about the stuff I want to write about, until you 'know yourself'. So, there is this utterly bizarre self-explora...

I don't even slightly feel captured or oppressed by an 'evil'. I don't see 'evil'. I think that what I see is partial information. I certainly do not see either tyrants or Tyrants ;-) And I don't feel I need to be 'freed'. But thank you. I suppose those are noble sentiments! Also, I have very much m...

I am in a bit of a pickle, Cory. I don't want it to be perceived that I don't hear you, or understand you, or appreciate what I sense if basic good will on your part. I have written a few things here but find it just doesn't seem like the right place or time to respond. You also, in your way, have o...

I have mixed feeling, Diebert, about your 'recommendations'. Why would you bother? Cutting to the chase, I think you really should leave 'a person' (anyone) to work out their ideas as they need to. You have pretty much always taken this position and it seems you appoint yourself to this task. I also...

I have just been reviewing Othello, and considering Machiavellianism and Grandiosity, and I am struck with some very interesting parallels which, naturally, I'll be honing and perfecting over the next weeks, months and years. In my radical new interpretation, 'Othello' is a sort of Everyman, but mor...

But isn't Machiavellianism really associated withthe state and statecraft? De Gaulle once said 'France has no friends, only interests', and a state cannot ever act like a person, nor think like a person. Machiavelli wrote his Discourses as a 'historical meditation" on the first ten books of Liv...

Hi Elizabeth, the part in the above, to me, I thought was very nicely put. That sort of statement is something one can put to use.

Any diagnostic is problematic, this is very true. But I do want to say that I mean grandiosity in a very specific sense, as in spiritual grandiosity, or having a grandiose sense of oneself as a messenger or Teacher, and especially as one who 'claims' a style of spirituality or a vision of the spirit...

Ken Kesey said one 'We are operating on many levels'. This likely had to do with the Magic Bus voyages, and also likely had to do with psychedelic 'realities', in a period of time when everything was getting turned on its head. Kunga, I only wish to say that I have developed a style of communication...

Nicely put, Cory. I find these statements of yours sensible and useful. And if basis of misanthropy is self-hatred or hatred of life and even things like flesh & birth & body, what does that say about us? The First Order of Rishic (Vedic and hence Buddhist) awareness was of the horrors arrac...

Kunga: Free of grandiosity. Let's see: Am I here to establish a spiritual movement? Take on disciples? Offer a plan for salvation, enlightenment, or otherwise cure the world? 'To know your true nature' sound to me like the repetition of a phrase. Who decides who does and doesn't know his true nature...

Oh really Kunga? You hang a great deal on 'enlightenment'. Honestly, 'quo warranto'? By what authority?

Enlightenment, the word, when you think about it, is really a very bad word. It does not have a definition. It cannot, in fact, have a definition because it means for each person, or for each school of thought, something different. Who can judge 'enlightenment'? A panel of authorities necessarily 'e...

In this gambit, one move (pointing out grandiosity) is countered with an opportunistic attack against an element of my own discourse, that of Story. This functions nicely to deflect the critique, and is the 'move' that is performed frequently, such that it is fairly predictable. If I answer the Stor...

Folly, ignorance, partial knowledge, lack of self-knowledge, immaturity, mental arrogance and 'hubris' can do all that David and much more. This 'logical person', this dangerous sage, is none other than you yourself. The first Logical Man in human history. His 'logic' makes him blind. It is a logica...