28-07-2011, 12:13 AM
Jan, I don't speak Hebrew, or Yiddish, or Norwegian. It's all information for the grist mill of information. It may (or may not) lend some perspective, an additional filter or lens in a world filled with filters and lenses, about cultural mindsets.
I very much appreciate Post #168 and essentially agree with it all; any further discussion is fruitless in this context except perhaps to say that historical studies of the occult and who uses it to what ends are warranted.
I am afraid my head is swimming in it at this point, remembering the tales of Andrija Puharich and "The Nine", just having seen yet another article on sound-induced, microwave-delivered audio suggestion, and having just seen an old rerun of an Oprah Winfrey show in which her guests were some of the now-retired greats from Lorne Michael's famous SNL (Saturday Night Live): Jane ("you ignorant slut") Curtin was asked what it was like backstage during the production and her response was "it was chaotic, but we pulled order out of chaos".
In a much larger cultural context, the goal of the induction of chaos is to raise doubt in our selves about what we know, what we believe and, indeed, our own ability to achieve meaningful insight based on reason, the intake of the senses, and our embodiment.
I very much appreciate Post #168 and essentially agree with it all; any further discussion is fruitless in this context except perhaps to say that historical studies of the occult and who uses it to what ends are warranted.
I am afraid my head is swimming in it at this point, remembering the tales of Andrija Puharich and "The Nine", just having seen yet another article on sound-induced, microwave-delivered audio suggestion, and having just seen an old rerun of an Oprah Winfrey show in which her guests were some of the now-retired greats from Lorne Michael's famous SNL (Saturday Night Live): Jane ("you ignorant slut") Curtin was asked what it was like backstage during the production and her response was "it was chaotic, but we pulled order out of chaos".
In a much larger cultural context, the goal of the induction of chaos is to raise doubt in our selves about what we know, what we believe and, indeed, our own ability to achieve meaningful insight based on reason, the intake of the senses, and our embodiment.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"