Tag Archives: Ram Dass

flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading

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bosch: love as an involuntary movement

How mad can mad be? Is deep pessimism a form of madness? Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled and mystified, even perplexed viewers the way Hieoronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has. Six hundred years … Continue reading

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TIE DYE REVOLUTIONISTS: BAD CHEMICAL REACTION

Yesterday’s radicalism fades in unaccountable ways into today’s reaction, and what the revolutionaries intended to build may turn out the precise reverse. ( Hannah Arendt ) What was new with the 60’s counter-culture was the sheer mass character of the … Continue reading

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FOOLS ON THE HILL WITH THE KARMA MEN

Tea for two with the Maharishi. The drift along hippie life purported to be inherently religious, but even among the hippies there were always a few who tried harder. These are the various sages of the movement, who appointed themselves … Continue reading

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