The Polyphasic Body and Its Many Worlds
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe
there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. ––Robert Benchley
Do we live in a UNIverse or MULTIverse? Is it one world or many worlds? Most of us feel it as a true thing that we are all living in the same one world. We have many curious ways to disregard, not embody, the mounting evidence to the contrary. I am curious what our senses will allow us to 'see' if we learn to reset the constraints.
Joseph Cambell (Creative Mythology, Masks of God, Book 4) wrote that one of the four goals of mythology is to see the world as it really it. This is the true song of the siren, luring sailors to shipwreck, the lure of hearing what actually happened, what is the true story. It is the appeal of the Grand Narrative, the story of all stories. I wonder what other cultures experience this problem or is this uniquely Western, inherited from the Greeks, along with many other errors we have constructed mansions upon.
The history of the body
The vision is for Ongoingness; Life continuing on . . . .
Flaneur (Out for a Stroll)
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I am I and my circumstance;
and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself. —JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
Changing the Conversation
I was born. I am always a vessel for something other than myself. The self is only a
vehicle for Foreign matter which comes from elsewhere and is destined to go on
elsewhere without me, whether it's words, smells, vision ––EMANUELE COCCIA Metamorphoses
The Story Teller
Now, more than ever . . . our place in the universe and the place of the universe in us, is proving to be one of active relationship. That is more than a scientist's credo. The separateness of our lives is a sham. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, my politics, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.
—JEANETTE WINTERSON Gut Symmetries
What you do, what you become, is not my concern. –ROBERT MCCALL
Yes, there is beauty
There is love
There is joy.
All you who suffer from
the world's miseries
Defend them.
––EEVA KILPI
"Don't immanentize the eschaton."
––ERIC VOEGELIN
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