When I was an undergraduate studying Humanities (literature\/philosophy\/art), I came across a story about the poet T.S. Eliot’s late-in-life conversion to Anglicanism. (Or something vaguely Christian like that.)<\/p>\n
As a barely recovering X-tian myself at the time, I was damn disappointed in the man. <\/p>\n
Forty years later, I am doing the same thing. <\/p>\n
Sort Of. <\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
In spite of Faggin and Kastrup’s relatively rigorous appeal to Physics, there is not yet any kind of hard-headed left-brain proof that we Absolutely Are conscious shards of a greater Consciousness; ripples on the great lake or momentary whirlpools in the great ocean. <\/p>\n
In the absence (yet) of such incontrovertible evidence, I am choosing to place my heathen faith in the theory anyway. <\/p>\n
And out beyond that, in the theory that Civilization was and is, on balance, a bad idea. <\/p>\n
In so doing, I am not taking the rite as a clerical Analytical Idealist, or being baptized in the pagan truth of Anarcho-Primitivism. <\/p>\n
But I am staring metaphorically at the cave art of Lascaux and Altimira and and using that perception within “my””self” to cr\u00e6ft a simulacrum of religious ecstasy. <\/p>\n
I am opening my eyes to the flashing colors of the Transcendental at the end of 2001 according to Stanley, and Meditating upon them. <\/p>\n
I have brooding intentions in the direction of de-domesticating myself. <\/p>\n
I am forming sentences, right now and every day, about those intentions. <\/p>\n
And I am abiding in the heavenly glow of knowing when to stop making sentences and get on with this conscious play I call my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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