Meme meme meme meme!

(stolen from rubel)

What are your biggest collections? Not bulkiest, but most variety or most complete or whatnot.

( My response: )

(no subject)

Are we God's frugal reflections of Himself (or, rather, Self, once gender cancels itself out)?

fragments, 6/23/03, 9:43 p.m.

This is something I mentioned to F on the phone after I'd seen The Matrix Reloaded:

"Is love the genesis of choice?"

I think that's the ultimate question distilled from the movie. And it's a worthy question. Can love trump the mechanisms of fate? In my mystical experience, I would have to say yes. While I can never know for certain, I feel that the soul trumps death because of its love, its yearning, for God.

fragments, 6/10/03, 9:52 p.m.

The universe isn't a problem to be solved; it's a condition satisfied.

McKenna to ponder

The big bugaboo of Western civ is that we deny the existence of spirit. It's been a thousand-year project to eliminate the spirit from all explanations of how reality works, or the personality works, or anything works. The absence of spirit permits the murder of the planet. But the cost of the denial of spirit is life empty of meaning, which doesn't mean we have to return to the world of beady-eyed priestcraft and its slimy minions. But it does mean that we have to recover an authentic experience of the transcendental. And apparently what this means, then, is fusion with Nature, and the psychedelics do this. They dissolve boundaries. They open the way to the Gaian mind.

Now you can believe this is bullshit, but you cannot believe it's bullshit unless you have made the experiment yourself and found it to be wanting--this isn't a philosophy course, here. We're talking about something real. And if the critics are not willing to invest time in it, then the critics have already declared their terror and fear of the solution.

The entire text is quite illuminating.

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