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Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's MindMatters, and is an editor for Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
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parzival
2022-09-11T05:40:43Z
From I Meme Therefore I am: [Link]
Some of the books sound interesting but not so sure about his scathing historical analysis, but then every discussion is a good chance to have a good rant about a history that you didn't live through.
That was amazing.. But only whets the appetite, doesn't it?
Amazing feat that so many dots have been joined together by these hard working, and incredible people (interviewers included). Such an honorable service to humanity, thank you.
The only tragedy is that the audience is already converted. I hope it has much further reach.
Amazing feat that so many dots have been joined together by these hard working, and incredible people (interviewers included). Such an honorable service to humanity, thank you.
The only tragedy is that the audience is already converted. I hope it has much further reach.
Freewill is numero uno for humanity.
One man’s Terrorist is another man’s Freedom Fighter. If any system’s dogma/gestalt is corrupted by both sides (and it is), Freewill is what they fear b/c of the conscious awareness & ‘molting” process that reveals beneath the veils of deception of the multiverse (demiurge/Plato’s Cave).
Freewill allows the Spirit/Soul to manifest & go beyond the paradigm in place towards other possibilities. Freedom presumes a choice & change but not necessarily is a Soul/Spirit released or free from the gestalt/dogma system in place.
One man’s Terrorist is another man’s Freedom Fighter. If any system’s dogma/gestalt is corrupted by both sides (and it is), Freewill is what they fear b/c of the conscious awareness & ‘molting” process that reveals beneath the veils of deception of the multiverse (demiurge/Plato’s Cave).
Freewill allows the Spirit/Soul to manifest & go beyond the paradigm in place towards other possibilities. Freedom presumes a choice & change but not necessarily is a Soul/Spirit released or free from the gestalt/dogma system in place.
Thanks team and Arthur. I looked up the book, and you can read a little from the first part of the dialog, and it is engaging. Trying to decide what book is most important. He also has his Sofia translation of John Poulard available, and I have never read him probably because he was not available in English.
The Dionysius the Areopagite is available to download, and it is short. The Boehme dialogs are available online but not the Arthur team translation.
It is interesting how the Christian mystics, like Mechthild de Magdeburg, and the Sufi mystics, were all persecuted by the religious orthodoxy. Dogma attacks true experience.
The Dionysius the Areopagite is available to download, and it is short. The Boehme dialogs are available online but not the Arthur team translation.
It is interesting how the Christian mystics, like Mechthild de Magdeburg, and the Sufi mystics, were all persecuted by the religious orthodoxy. Dogma attacks true experience.
Dwoods44 In reading the Dionysius version I downloaded, it is clear to me, that it must be read from the right brain not the left. You are moving from the limited knowing of life experience to the unknowing of spiritual experience.
In the Sufi tradition, Rumi uses the term cutting off your head, your human intelligence, to know the truth. In the Zen tradition it is attaining the state of "no mind". In the Tao tradition you must empty yourself in order to fill yourself.
Quote from Dionysis: "Surely it is truer to affirm that God is life and goodness than that He is air or stone, and truer to deny that drunkenness or fury can be attributed to Him than to deny that we may apply to Him the categories of human thought."
In the Sufi tradition, Rumi uses the term cutting off your head, your human intelligence, to know the truth. In the Zen tradition it is attaining the state of "no mind". In the Tao tradition you must empty yourself in order to fill yourself.
Quote from Dionysis: "Surely it is truer to affirm that God is life and goodness than that He is air or stone, and truer to deny that drunkenness or fury can be attributed to Him than to deny that we may apply to Him the categories of human thought."
People should learn to communicate ,without pretence or judgement, especially if full of supercilious noise - how can they see and hear others, or fully appreciate them ?...even if they surround themselves with unspoiled beauty ,how can they read the conversation about them if inwardly "connected" to established distractions, as dependent on them as they are a breath of air from generations of unbroken miasma.
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Terrific book, and interview with AV, for those interested in a spiritual pathway to avoiding the apocalypse. I purchased today on kindle and m almost half way through reading it, I am not a fast reader. So many dots connected and well worth the price.
Thanks for this interview Harrison and recommendation it has opened up a whole world of possibilities,
Thanks for this interview Harrison and recommendation it has opened up a whole world of possibilities,
The Sufi's have many mystics, and one who is also Hindu. Here is a translation of Kabir by Robert Bly:
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside "love" there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word "reason" you already feel miles away.
How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside "love" there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word "reason" you already feel miles away.
How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.
Dwoods44 Another Robert Bly version of a Kabir poem:
There is nothing but water in the holy pools.
I know, I have been swimming in them.
All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can't say a word.
I know, I have been crying out to them.
The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words.
I looked through their covers one day sideways.
What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through.
If you have not lived through something, it is not true.
There is nothing but water in the holy pools.
I know, I have been swimming in them.
All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can't say a word.
I know, I have been crying out to them.
The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words.
I looked through their covers one day sideways.
What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through.
If you have not lived through something, it is not true.
Dwoods44 As someone born in '90 (4th of July actually and always lived in Canada), that's woefully true for me. Saturday mornings with the Looney Tunes and sugary breakfast cereal often with extra sugar like Marilyn Manson inside his album coverlet for Portrait of an American Family.
You spoonfed us Saturday morning mouthfuls of maggots and lies
disguised in your sugary breakfast cereals. The plates you made
us clean were filled with YOUR fears. These things have
hardened in our soft pink bellies. We are what YOU have made
us. We have grown up watching YOUR television. We are a
symptom of YOUR Christian America, the biggest Satan of all.
This is YOUR world in which we grow, and we will grow to hate
you. Hallelujah, motherfucker!"/i]
You spoonfed us Saturday morning mouthfuls of maggots and lies
disguised in your sugary breakfast cereals. The plates you made
us clean were filled with YOUR fears. These things have
hardened in our soft pink bellies. We are what YOU have made
us. We have grown up watching YOUR television. We are a
symptom of YOUR Christian America, the biggest Satan of all.
This is YOUR world in which we grow, and we will grow to hate
you. Hallelujah, motherfucker!"/i]
since the purpose of our life is to grow in consciousness...well. i wonder if purpose of life was not to take care of wife/family/friends?
(should i dump them, persue "growing in consciousness")?
rakarb I've written off some people.. all my family.. and it is sad but they are a retarded burden and basically abandoned me and won't take me seriously about food shortages. Expedience is key.
rakarb I've written off some people.. all my family.. and it is sad but they are a retarded burden and basically abandoned me and won't take me seriously about food shortages. Expedience is key.Yeah, some people need to be dumped. It shouldn't be for frivolous reasons of course, but there are cases - like we discussed with Josh Slocum in our last interview with him - where it is the best option.
Animanarchy i have basically never written off anybody in my entire life. among other things, that means i regulary have to deal with certain amounts of crap.
imo, those things are personal choises/oppinions more than anything else.
thank you for being frank/personal/open 🥰
imo, those things are personal choises/oppinions more than anything else.
thank you for being frank/personal/open 🥰
