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- Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
- Replies: 617
- Views: 119528
Re: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
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 ...
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:19 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
- Replies: 617
- Views: 119528
Re: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
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...
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
- Replies: 617
- Views: 119528
Re: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
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 ...
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
- Replies: 617
- Views: 119528
Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
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 ...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 121206
Re: Musings, Critiques.
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...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 121206
Re: Musings, Critiques.
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 ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 121206
Re: Musings, Critiques.
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...
- Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:50 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 121206
Re: Musings, Critiques.
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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, ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Tired of Ultimate Realty, On lookout for Something Different
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7208
Re: Tired of Ultimate Realty, On lookout for Something Diffe
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? ;-)
You votin' Black or White this election? ;-)
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:47 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:50 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Machiavellianism
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8917
Re: Machiavellianism
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Machiavellianism
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8917
Re: Machiavellianism
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:09 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
The Nature of Grandiosity
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Intuition and the Wordless Nerve
- Replies: 423
- Views: 143967
Re: Intuition and the Wordless Nerve
Oh really Kunga? You hang a great deal on 'enlightenment'. Honestly, 'quo warranto'? By what authority?
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:28 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Nature of Evil
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28772
Re: The Nature of Evil
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...