Mysticism
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Ultimate Concern
For our Thursday class, we began by everyone sitting in a circle on the floor. We stretched out our legs so that our feet touched each other completing the circle. Then we went around the circle and each named a… Continue reading
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Tabernacle inertia
I would drift out sightless upon the water of the endless abyss obliviated of every memory and forgetting expectations. I would glide zigzagging the trade winds of exchange becoming a whisper of what was yet never could be. I… Continue reading
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The Truth and the True
Jaspers and Heidegger appeal to me because I am a mystic who has had mystical experiences: spoken in Tongues, hung over the Abyss, fallen into ecstasy of Nothing, felt the Abiding Presence of the Other, heard the rushing Silence. Each… Continue reading
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Methods of Salvador Dali
A nice overview of the philosophical methods and notions employed by Dali for aesthetic inspiration. Paranoid-Critical: Created in the early 1930’s by Dali himself, the “Paranoid-Critical” method is a Surrealist method used to help an artist tap into their subconscious… Continue reading
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Centrum Naturae
“When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading
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Alan Watts on Waking Up
My buddy-friend-guy of 9 years, Christopher, has been listening to this a lot in the last few days. I always love to hear the voice of Alan Watts. And this one kept grabbing my attention because of the ambient music… Continue reading
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THIS is – this IS – THIS IS
morning satori authentic letting-go? walking along, listening to Alan Watts THIS clicks into place thoughts weaken, fall away after a last tugging illusion a hesitation then/there – NO! now/here YES! Squirrel running along wall chittering & skittering THIS is this… Continue reading
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Hans Memling in Brugge
..[T]he Memling Museum [is] housed in the former Hospital of Saint John. The hospital functioned from the 13th century onwards, and much of the museum’s collection is devoted to illustrating its history. Sixteenth century surgery tools used at the hospital… Continue reading
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