Tag Archives: William James

out of the nest: innocence abroad

Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Hemingway took his lusty appetites; today the idea of innocence abroad lingers but tenuously, as the rejection of home… The American emigre movement to Europe  had its beginnings in the … Continue reading

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LSD: and then this world was nothing…

LSD as a form of psychiatric treatment. Stranded on the beaches of our waking mind… Another effect  from the “gaining of altitude” revolved around the recording of the heightening of consciousness. This was usually described as the growing intensification of … Continue reading

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enlarging the mind

The phenomenal powers of LSD to intensify and change the mind. A good or an ill? Pharmaceuticals that change and maintain human personality at any desired level… Since earliest times people have felt the impulse to rise above the everyday … Continue reading

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darwin: if only one could discern it

…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading

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the paranormal: does what matter

…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading

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if dreyfus was an arab

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The chief actors in the drama have been on the political scene ever since but the dynamic takes on shape-shifting characteristics in defining new enemies and the necessity of an “other” as the basis of … Continue reading

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lookin’ for joey’s camel

“Deux poids. Deux measures” A kind of double standard. A sigh, a resignation of acceptance of moral relativism. This is especially acute with regard to the established canon of the church of socialist thinking in which the high priests of … Continue reading

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hail to the chief

Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that  repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading

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what if there was no back then

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review  Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading

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new vision of visions: the inner need

What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading

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