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| ==== Degenerative view of history and the end of kaliyuga ==== | ==== Degenerative view of history and the end of kaliyuga ==== | ||
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| + | * Do you share similar view on the human history? | ||
| + | * What traps do you find in some versions of the contemporary " | ||
| + | * What can be the benefit of having " | ||
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| Our terror of insecurity and impermanence leads us to invent technological “solutions” in order to eradicate all risks of death, illness and all that we consider to be a problem. | Our terror of insecurity and impermanence leads us to invent technological “solutions” in order to eradicate all risks of death, illness and all that we consider to be a problem. | ||
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| + | ===== RECOMMENDED TEXTS: ===== | ||
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| + | * Capriles, E.: // | ||
| + | * Quinn, D.: //Beyond Civilization// | ||
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| - | ===== RECOMMENDED TEXT: ===== | + | Down on this page you can find some notes from that text. You can add your own notes and comments and share it with others. |
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| + | ==== The Perennial Philosophy’s Degenerative View of Human Evolution and History ==== | ||
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| + | * We are living in what the Greeks called the " | ||
| + | * According to A. J. Ayer "we are authorized to have faith in our procedure [i.e. scientific method], so long as it carries out its function, which is that of predicting future experience and thus control our environment" | ||
| + | * Sciences are but myths ... Progress is nothing but a myth to the bourgeoisie --Sorel (pp.797; 934=endnote 3) ... apparent comfort to privileged minority (p.803) | ||
| + | * there cannot be a perfect structural fit between [digital] conceptual maps and the [analog] territory ... // | ||
| + | * pseudo-postmodernism of petit récits and imperfect deconstruction/ | ||
| + | * Mount Kailash as the sacred center of Bön, Indian and other traditions (pp- 799 etc.) | ||
| + | * Lila-telos of evolution (p.800) | ||
| + | * Kalpa, 14 manvataras, 3 or 4 yugas (krityayuga/ | ||
| + | * taoism: " | ||
| + | * A.Watts: reverse law / law of inverted effect. Trying to go south yet going actually north... going to create technological Eden yet creating a ecological catastrophe (pp. 803n.) | ||
| + | * circular vision of becoming (p.800) Heraclitus, Stoics etc. | ||
| + | * traditional degenerative conception of human evolution and history (gradual dev. of avidya/ | ||
| + | * Figure-ground mind (gestalt) ~ secondary-process-only limited mind (Freud) (p.804) | ||
| + | * architecture of delusion: selection -- neglecting the rest -- indifference -- blindness -- selected perceived as completeness (p.804) | ||
| + | * story of blind man and elephant | ||
| + | * incapacity to grasp the unity of the coin of life (p.805) Destroying the whole [coin] while trying to get rid of what is unpleasant [one side of the coin] "when an arc annoys us, we aim at it our powerful technological weapons, destroying the circuit of which they are a part, setting fire to the tree in front of us, we burn the forest in which we stand, bringing about our own destruction" | ||
| + | * Four Noble Truths transferred to the current ecological crisis (pp.805-6) | ||
| + | * story of the rainfall of maddening water (p.806) | ||
| + | * Erich Fromm: our society as a whole is lacking sanity, "Just as there is a folie à deux there is a folie à millions"; | ||
| + | * Goethe, The Sorcerer' | ||
| + | * biblical story of the tower of Babel - attempt to arrive at paradise though building buy means of linear intelligence, | ||
| + | * fable of Golem - homunculus, letters aleph-mem-thau creating " | ||
| + | TODO: | ||
| + | * Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind | ||
| + | * Sartre | ||
| + | * Kiergegaard | ||
| + | * Bateson - conscious purpose against nature (p.822) | ||
| + | * MISC--Marx, Freud, Communion, post-Contemplation state, metamorphy, morphogenesis, | ||
| + | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||
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