I agree with Mr. James about your coolness! For whatever reason I just began reading my 3rd book on Kindle, Huxleys "The Perennial Philosophy" I love all his other books I have read and I agree he saw the orange horizon coming. I also for whaever reason, just viewed "The Social Dilema" Somehow I have managed all these years to not have a social media presence, I feel a bit of a lonely dinosaur, but also lucky! Thanks Dr.D
I love lonely dinosaurs! I do participate in Twitter, somewhat casually and very rarely overtly politically, so I can appreciate the loneliness. I remember sensing a new void in reality opening up a decade ago, a void where information about people and events would normally be, information that was now circulating through FB. Those were the years when if I told people I wasn;t on FB they would sometimes start arguing with me as if I had judged them! (This happened numerous times, and only affirmed my resolve.)
The Perennial Philosophy is the best statement of perennialism, and offers a wealth of wonderful quotes. Take it with a grain of pluralist salt thought--it may be that there arent just different paths up the one mountain, but different mountains!
As for Huxley, definitely try some of his other novels, particularly After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and Time Must Have a Stop, both of which were written after he moved to Hollywood and feature great mystic stuff.
Yr the cool older brother I never had, turning me on to cool music and books. That’s gotta be worth $5 a month eh? Cheaper than the magazines I used to rely on for getting turned on to new stuff. This week its Taussig. Thanks Dr. D!
I love the cool older brother mode. I didn't have one, or know any really growing up, but I did have an "older sister" (not related) who turned me on to the I Ching and early weed experiences. I also made friends with the cool older dude who worked at Lou's records in Encinitas. And so many of my later "teachers" in life have not been teachers but really older brother/sister types, temporary mentors, slightly diffident friends who are farther on the path.
As for Taussig, if folks don't read critical theory I mostly don't recommend that stuff to them. But while Taussig is tangled, and requires getting a handle on other thinkers to really follow, he is so poetic and so singular in his approach that I would say that he is really worth the tangle.
I agree with Mr. James about your coolness! For whatever reason I just began reading my 3rd book on Kindle, Huxleys "The Perennial Philosophy" I love all his other books I have read and I agree he saw the orange horizon coming. I also for whaever reason, just viewed "The Social Dilema" Somehow I have managed all these years to not have a social media presence, I feel a bit of a lonely dinosaur, but also lucky! Thanks Dr.D
I love lonely dinosaurs! I do participate in Twitter, somewhat casually and very rarely overtly politically, so I can appreciate the loneliness. I remember sensing a new void in reality opening up a decade ago, a void where information about people and events would normally be, information that was now circulating through FB. Those were the years when if I told people I wasn;t on FB they would sometimes start arguing with me as if I had judged them! (This happened numerous times, and only affirmed my resolve.)
The Perennial Philosophy is the best statement of perennialism, and offers a wealth of wonderful quotes. Take it with a grain of pluralist salt thought--it may be that there arent just different paths up the one mountain, but different mountains!
As for Huxley, definitely try some of his other novels, particularly After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and Time Must Have a Stop, both of which were written after he moved to Hollywood and feature great mystic stuff.
Yr the cool older brother I never had, turning me on to cool music and books. That’s gotta be worth $5 a month eh? Cheaper than the magazines I used to rely on for getting turned on to new stuff. This week its Taussig. Thanks Dr. D!
I love the cool older brother mode. I didn't have one, or know any really growing up, but I did have an "older sister" (not related) who turned me on to the I Ching and early weed experiences. I also made friends with the cool older dude who worked at Lou's records in Encinitas. And so many of my later "teachers" in life have not been teachers but really older brother/sister types, temporary mentors, slightly diffident friends who are farther on the path.
As for Taussig, if folks don't read critical theory I mostly don't recommend that stuff to them. But while Taussig is tangled, and requires getting a handle on other thinkers to really follow, he is so poetic and so singular in his approach that I would say that he is really worth the tangle.