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have to do with worry living in the future and some regret living in the past still i m sure this book has somehow allowed me to have a higher quantity of moments or at least it seems so the book does seem to function reliably por moi as a short term anti anxiety pill the endgame ha does seem to set the bar fairly high though which is cool it occurs to me that in our non ordinary realities we seem to be more conducive to being in the moment possibly because our primary realities seem a tad too well known it s for me an uncanny book as i read it i think alan watts is right about all this how did he do it how does he make it all sound so logically coherent an olde classic wordworth s the world is too much with us i also find myself thinking this is one of the best sophists ever and i actually enjoy most of the sophists we encounter in plato forget thrasymachus who seems to me the barking id of every pentagon death cult thinker we ve ever had add to this might makes right dude callicles and hippias what a trio of a holes i know when we read plato we re always supposed to be on socrates s side and i love the old pederast as much as the next philosophy student but some of his interlocutors are even more interesting gorgias the rhetorician must have seemed like a whigged out weirdo thinker in his time but he probably ends up as an underrated progenitor of trippy neoplatonism a case has been made that gorgias is proto derrida protagoras was the clarence darrow of his day he said there s gotta be at least two versions of everything and was really good at making the weaker account sound better than the stronger he also said you can have the gods but i say they re unknowable and furthermore humans are the measure of all things antiphon reminds me of a billionaire libertarian who wants unlimited pleasure life comfort and pesky laws and other people s meddling just get in his way antiphon thought protagoras was a dick i don t like this antiphon guy very much but he s not boring and i feel like i know him antiphon lives socrates quite often pales according to my own evaluations when engaged in dialectic with these rock star talkers and thinkers in athens anyway back to alan watts s the wisdom of insecurity it s also beatnik philosophy nonpareil watts was doing what aldous huxley was doing for open minded protestant and quasi lapsed catholic thinkers in the west at the time arguing point after metaphysical point and then citing passages from the bible juxtaposed with quotes from buddhism taoism and the vedas and showing how much they had in common that old time human ecumenism i go for that as a person who really never went to church i strongly suspect even the most rabid atheists out there desire transcendent experience hell i know they do watts has also always seemed fantastically entertaining to me playful trickster guru erudite absurd wonderfully frank heretical with marvelous british elocution this might be the key to a good theologian in the 21st century good according to my own hierarchy of values be a philosophical entertainer aye philosophers could stand to be more entertaining or failing that at least drop most of the post 1945 jargon it s decadent here s a decent line i just found in watts s essay psychotherapy and eastern religion now i m a philosopher and as a philosopher i am grateful to some of the great pioneers in psychotherapy like freud jung and adler for pointing out to us philosophers the unconscious emotional forces which underlie our opinions in a way i m also a theologian but not a partisan theologian i don t belong to any particular religion because i don t consider that to be intellectually respectable 20 years ago when i read that i realized okay i previously discounted all theologians as pernicious dinosaurs but i must consider any that say such a thing as this later when i stumbled onto my favorite writer robert anton wilson i found that raw s wife arlen had turned him onto watts in turn watts became a sort of mentor to wilson telling him there were some very interesting harvard professors investigating psychedelic drugs in the context of religious experience raw and leary became friends and intellectual collaborators from the mid 1960s to leary s death in 1996 at another meeting watts told raw he d just read a fantastic book by israel regardie about aleister crowley raw went on to become one of the world s most erudite explainers of crowley and indeed an adept himself at another time watts said that the biggest error in history books is the idea that the roman empire fell it never ended this became a riff repeated in raw s and philip k dick s books watts turned raw on to zen and even though watts quit smoking cannabis by 1959 the notion of zen and being awake in the moment has always struck many of us lovers of mary jane warner as an easy way in to a simulation of zen for reasons i ll go into in some further blogspew watts was alcoholic and a sensualist he was an ordained anglican priest taught at harvard was an editor broadcaster a dean a consultant at psychiatric hospitals and one of the west s great exponents of comparative religion he wrote one of the first books on psychedelics and religion the joyous cosmology by late 1959 early 1960s he d found his calling as self described philosopher entertainer a religious virtuoso who was in show biz and was a genuine fake when raw met him watts had left his wife dorothy and their four kids with a fifth on the way he was not perfect i remember a talk watts gave on pacifica radio in which he said the numbers for outcomes in traditional psychotherapy were 1 3 get get better 1 3 get worse and 1 3 stay the same that floored me he foresaw a zerowork society as far back as the 1950s he was very well read in the sciences and in one of the few quotations from the wisdom of insecurity we get in a footnote a quote from the uber cyberneticist norbert wiener who seemed to be aware that our rationality and machines might kill us in a book from 1951 he was friends with huxley and an influence on leary all three of those men and wilson influenced me to learn to use my own brain to think for myself to acknowledge that i might be one of those weirdo thinkers who may have to do it outside of the academy against rugged american egotist individualism we as a culture need as complement transpersonal intersubjectivity and a non intellectual public meeting of limbic minds watts s most famous abode was probably his houseboat at sausalito just north of san francisco it was on his boat that a much written about meeting houseboat summit of 1967 of 1960s guru minds was held the problem do we forget about politics because it s hopeless and drop out and continue to turn on to our own thing or do we engage in politics trying to bring what we ve learned from esoterica and psychedelia to the table or something in between on the boat that day ginsberg gary snyder leary in this same year watts began championing buckminster fuller and marshall mcluhan the summer of love was happening or is it capital aitch h appening a few minutes down the way in the haight ashbury district in his introduction to dark destiny proprietors of fate a book of short stories about the world of darkness which is an apt title to happen upon as i write this nearing the witching hour on halloween raw in an eldritch mood writes emerson s brahma who says i am the slayer and the slain presumably enjoys the slaying even if he she it also suffers the pain of the victim this view really implies a cosmos consisting only of a god playing with itself transcendental masturbation or playing hide and seek with itself the view of alan watts and all gnostic conspiracy buffs in the phil dick tradition when i first read this passage i had never thought watts a gnostic but then realized that s probably right the idea that rome never fell seems one of the main riffs in modern gnosticism further one easily gets the feeling reading or listening to watts that he had sight of proteus rising from the sea and besides raw knew alan watts कलाकार बॉब कैम्पबेल posted by michael at 10 40 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alan watts buddhism cannabis christianity gnosticism intellectuals neurotheology psychedelic drugs psychotherapy religion robert anton wilson science sophists taoism timothy leary william wordsworth tuesday october 25 2016 on a few of the many varieties of codes and deceptive behaviors in history buckminster fuller writes about the earliest polynesian navigators who were wizards who learned to sail east to west against the winds with secret knowledge that was only shared orally with their sons or coded in their chants knowing all about boats these navigator priests were the only people who knew that the earth was spherical that the earth is a closed system with its myriad resources chartable but being water people they kept their charts in their heads and relayed the information to their navigator progeny exclusively in esoterical legendary symbolical codings embroidered into their chants synergetics pp 749 751 i see this as an example of a small group who protect their knowledge because it was powerful and probably because it was thrilling for small group cohesion how do we decode writing such as what you re looking at right now in 11th century fatimid egypt under science loving al hakim who had become ruler at age 11 but then disappeared mysteriously during a solitary walk 25 years later cairo was the apex of learning in the world lots of trade with mediterranean neighbors a fearsome army recruited from sudanese turks and berbers the polynesian s sailing code long since cracked among the brains that drained toward cairo at this historical moment was al hasan ibn al haytham western scholars called him alhazen from basra one project was to explain perception al haytham had read the recent translations of aristotle and agreed that things we see enter the eye via the air but al haytham elaborated with more physiological and mathematical suppositions about how perception happens furthermore he said we perceive via a faculty of judgement after inference pure sensation was different from perception the latter requiring a conscious voluntary act on our part here was a theory of gradations of consciousness 900 years before korzybski there was first pure sensation whatever we experience before words analogous to korzybski s event level then we voluntarily attend to some phenomena say paying attention to letters and words and sentences on a page perception then we decipher the words and finally we are reading al haytham died in 1038 i mention the 20th century polymath korzybski in the first half of the 18th century the neapolitan polymath giambattista vico wrote people first feel things without noticing them then notice them with inner stress and disturbance and finally reflect on them with a clear mind the new science 53 al hasan ibn al haytham b 965 wrote possibly the first great work in optics influenced roger bacon and leonardo da vinci roughly 200 years later under europe s catholic mullahs led by pope clement iv roger bacon one of those guys interested in everything was interested in optics he d read al haytham but was keeping it on the qt and yet still got persecuted for unorthodox teaching there were a lot of churchmen who insisted rather violently that scientific research was dangerous to church dogma they have made some progress since then bacon explained to the pope how optics perception reading probably worked bacon and al haytham had both realized it s got to be far more complex than they d suspected in 11th century islam al haytham was not persecuted roger bacon soon after trying to explain to the pope roughly the same theory found himself in a cell 250 or so years later leonardo da vinci was interested in this same problem of decoding perception and reading but he was smart enough to know he could get in trouble he wrote about it in his notebooks in a secret code that could only be read when held up to a mirror it s only in the last 80 years that we ve gotten a thick neurobiological account of how reading occurs and there s still interesting problems being worked out at this minute when looking into codes and ciphers codes are one thing ciphers another all translation from one language to another is codework any language you can t read can function as a code to crack at one time only priests kings and scribes accountants knew how to write and read for everyone else in the culture writing was a code o so many codes and right out in the open if only we could crack hack decipher decode not long ago i yet again re watched one of those films from the great age of hollywood paranoia c 1971 1976 three days of the condor in which robert redford plays a cia agent whose specialty is reading novels looking for codes embedded in them these codes would apparently qualify as steganography messages hidden within other messages and how do you know i m not doing that right now if i m doing it please take my word for it it s all in good clean fun i remember when i first saw condor i thought redford s job was a fiction writer s fancy but apparently it s a real thing and being taken more and more seriously by yes cia but all sorts of others working in the not so great game what if some of our best conspiracy writers and novelists of exquisite paranoia were leaving code in their books that hadn t yet been cracked i mean it could happen right maybe not but we never know let s not rule it out completely which reminds me of a passage in don delillo s haunting hilarious deeply paranoid and postmodern white noise the main character who is a professor specializing in hitler studies his ex wife works for the cia she told me very little about her intelligence work i knew she reviewed fiction for the cia mainly long serious novels with coded structures the work left her tired and irritable rarely able to enjoy food sex or conversation she spoke spanish to someone on the telephone was a hyperactive mother shining with an eerie stormlight intensity the long novels kept arriving in the mail it was curious how i kept stumbling into the company of lives in intelligence dana worked part time as a spy tweedy came from a distinguished old family that had a long tradition of spying and counterspying and she was now married to a high level jungle operative janet before retiring to the ashram was a foreign currency analyst who did research for a secret group of advanced theorists connected to some controversial think tank all she told me is that they never met in the same place twice p 213 maybe it s just me but high level jungle operative makes me laff white noise is one of delillo s short novels but there are some really long serious novels with coded structures hmmmm speaking of postmodernists douglas rushkoff in his wonderful book program or be programmed writes that 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