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Music of the Ainur
From The Silmarillion:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Music_of_the_Ainur
Video by the band Ainur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAE9NJIw98
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Music_of_the_Ainur
Video by the band Ainur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAE9NJIw98
History of the Enneagram Theory of Personality
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Dear Charlie,
You ask me in your reply to my essay where does this leave either of us?
Nowhere, because there is nowhere to be. Or to put it positively, 'where it is' because that is the only place it can be!!
Rationality is the great villain. Do you realize what I am saying? I am saying that madness has a greater insight to truth.
Truth is precisely madness. No it is not truth but people think that they are smart and go about their daily routines and operate as if the cultural world is "out there" and even monolithic. Madness consists in the unique possibility of rendering completely different 'takes' on the game! Idiosyncrasy means that I may possess truth (as experience) in a way that is precisely idiosyncratic to my way of being. The social engineers can't handle this for a number of reasons. People need to operate vehicles for one...
So that rationality is a actually a law imposed upon individual man to "play the game" correctly. Have you ever seen or heard of a 'mad' insect or animal? They don't exist!
But why is madness a human artifact? Because of the Cartesian epistemology. It is the flipside. Beneath Reason is fascism. No greater fascism than thought control as Orwell makes clear.
The ultimate freedom/crime is one and the same...to be oneself radically and to the root.
And whenever anyone makes this leap into freedom and madness, one actually begins to experience an authentic life that lends itself to transcendence because it is a detached observer---the ego gets dislodged. The mad person has no issues with their madness---it is rather the other way around---involuntary psychiatric treatment and the DSM IV proves that is the interest of a profession to enforce norms of "sanity". Sanity is obviously, according to my essay, a human artifact, and not even a ritual but simply a theory.
My essay seems pessimistic but it is not meant to be. The sooner we embrace madness as the authentic human possibility we can see the great idol of computing and technology which imposes its rational norms upon man. And hence, man's unique possibility is to "rage at the machine" and otherwise disavow the bulk of what is considered true and real by society and focus on living and being "out there" no matter what.
One cannot serve two masters---i.e. rationality and truth---precisely when truth is conceived as 'groundless" as Pema Chodron makes clear. Truth may require a voyage into the wilderness of free thinking no matter what!
Whitman mentions that Death may be far greater than anyone has imagined, Socrates noted a similar thought in the Apology, and I say that if we accept this benign take on death then why is there sucha a revulsion at suicide? Strange! Not that I am so inclined myself, still it is a boogie bear and a tabu for Mr. and Mrs. Smarty Pants.
Are you aware if an ant has ever acted in such a way as to end its life? I think I have observed mammals doing this, though one cannot be sure if the intent is suicidal per se, and if the intent is crucial to our definition of suicide, then we can just call this another fundamental violation of the biological (fascist) dicta that all creatures constantly strive to protect their lives. Weird if you ask me.
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