1. “I’m convinced that in contrast to the usual aspect, or be it sound aspect to life and more specifically to the past, to life’s transitoriness – and this includes that we approach, each of us are approaching death -, in contrast to that I maintain that in the past nothing is lost, but right… Read More Three excerpts from Viktor Frankl – meaning, idealism, suffering.
“While Pierre Schaeffer is often thought of as the father of the electronic music form known as musique concrète the gentleman above, Halim El-Dabh, actually got there several years before, 1944 to be exact.“ <<We had to sneak in (to the ritual) with our heads covered like the women, since men were not allowed in.… Read More Halim-El Dabh – Egyptian musique concrète, before Schaeffer
Between cinema and reality there is inevitably a difference (it is both an absence and an abstraction), the goal of which is twofold and somewhat paradoxical: first, it turns cinema into something which is its own universe, governed by its own rules and principles, a something-else-ness whose reason for being resides in itself; secondly, because… Read More Disparate notes on cinema
”Something that Vimalananda emphasized over and over again: there is no limit to knowledge. And here in this very country, India, there have been people who have been focusing on trying to understand reality from all its perspectives and they have been focusing for thousands of years and the amount of things that have been… Read More The experiencer, aghora tantra. Fragments by Robert Svoboda.
Possession. Jung I’d very much like to know what Jung had to say about possession cults and the deeper reasons behind such experiences. Especially since I’ve always wondered if the entities which supposedly possess the initiate could be regarded as aspects of one’s Self. As far as I know, though, Jung spoke about possession in… Read More Notes on possession trance. Jung. “The Miracle of Bali” (1969)
1. “Let those who suffer from the toils of samsara seek release: the perfect devotee does not suffer; for he can both visualize and experience life and the universe as the revelation of that Supreme Divine Force (sakti) with which he is in love, the all-comprehensive Divine Being in its cosmic aspect of playful, aimless… Read More Two quotes from H.Zimmer and the Tantras
“Like the initiate of a secret society who has broken free from the undifferentiated collectivity, the individual on his lonely path needs a secret which for various reasons he may not or cannot reveal. Such a secret reinforces him in the isolation of his individual aims. A great many individuals cannot bear this isolation. They… Read More Secrets and initiates – a quote by Jung
I’ve always felt that the important encounters in one’s life are, in a sense, reunions. I am here speaking of love but, then again, love has so many layers that one has to constantly mention to which of them they’re referring. Because on the one hand there’s the love that grows, that shows itself through… Read More Encounters are reunions. Facets of love
As I got out of bed a couple days ago, I spontaneously decided to play a little game: I would ask in my mind “What do I need to know today?” and open, at a random page, the little golden quote book I had set my eyes upon, which I haven’t leafed through in many… Read More Synchronicities. Rilke
