Old books, Collecting dust on the self

in OCD4 years ago

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Who owns the future, when we can no longer base
the authority of our religious testaments on history
Our myths and our gods are refuted by scientific reality

We lose our absolutes and the sense
of certainty they afforded us

What do we do with words and thoughts full of this?
Old books, Collecting dust on the self

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

The 'good old days' are gone,
in the march past postmodernist,
from Dharma Bums of Big Sur
and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch

Supposing, then, that in the image
of the philosophers of the future
some trait provokes psychedelic reality


The great bridge between art and science that was supposedly built in
the 20th century hinged on “What is the imagination?”
is a different way of asking the same question
“What is the origin of consciousness?”

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There is below the ordinary surface of space and time,
ruled by relativistic physics there is this strange domain of
instantaneous connectivity of all matter, of all phenomena.
It raises the possibility then that the imagination is, in fact,
a kind of, an organ of perception. Not an organ of creative, of unfoldment,
but actually an organ of perception. And what is perceived in the imagination
is that which is not local and never can be.


Who plays in the house of mirrors,
creating compositions and worldviews
out of bubble gum and dabs

Moving past the hollow culture of
inside jokes, cynicism, and detachment
This whole wasteland culture has run its course
We've grown sick of living in
a vacuum and struggling to remain detached

Scrolling your feed of memes, food porn and selfies
Trolling the echo chambers of the worst demons of our nature
We want to engage, meaningfully, in the stuff of life

In comes beauty,
the deep eternal beauty
with its infinite awe

Art is not the force that
corrupts our nature,
it is the open-minded wonder
that returns us to it.

Fear and trembling at the culture of narcissism
because we've finally grown tired
enough of ourselves to come
about something real

Once you label me
you negate me
Life is not a problem to be
solved, but a reality to be
experienced

Truth dies and its
rule is over,
Beauty dies and its
rule begins

We ache the letting go of
our postured pretentiousness
and surrender to that sensation
a kid gets at the Starry Sky

The jaws drop,
The eyes widen,
the mind opens.

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I got a few good philosophical books over the last year. Been enjoying getting to read some Watts and a few others. I want to find some Ram Dass books that are affordable, but whenever I can track down the odd copy online they are usually pretty expensive. Nice collection!

thanks, nice the other day I was reading Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks (1960-1969) by Alan Watts! Yeah, some of those first editions can be a pretty penny.

Try pdfdrive. Like project Gutenberg you can get a ton of free reads. This includes a lot of newer stuff as well as public domain reads.

oh yeah! pdfdrive is really helpful! a lot of free reads 🙂

Life to me is about the realization the the outside world mirrors the internal and the changes we decide to make to make our perception of the world a better place.