@3:47:15 the quotation Professor Dreyfus reads about Moby-Dick eating Ahab's leg like a lawn mower cutting a blade of grass contains an allusion to Othello (which I am surprised he did not notice): in Othello's death speech, he says "In Aleppo once / Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk / Beat a Venetian and traduced the state / I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog / And smote him-thus." Some meditation on this will bring you closer to understanding Ahab's monomania
meh. I don't take many appropriation accusations seriously. Especially now. Everything's a problem, every thing is appropriation. Just more separation. It's crazy how someone can research so much and not get the point. I guess the purpose of this was to say Leary had a small few things right in that book? IDK but really felt pointless, and more of a hit piece on that book. I disagree with the appropriation in the book but could see how the game playing people that helped make it felt that way. Bet Leary didn't feel that way lol. I wouldn't even call my self a fan but it seemed he got it. Don't know what he would do now that the world is stuck in this cognitive dissonance of being hateful psychos and yet complete snowflakes at the same time. Such a hypocritical, paradoxical, obnoxious time we live in. In regards to the use and point of that book it works well, in my opinion and experience. Completely changes the experience. And like most things you can put your own spin on it. So for me being agnostic or whatever title the zombies want to give me I can ride that experience without panic but also without any religious tinge to it. Spiritual, mystical, whatever you want to call it.
I think it is extremely understated how important Jungs’ discoveries are to this day. How ahead of time he was, and how courageous he was to offer up his own sanity for the sake of recovering ancient information that is extremely pertinent to this day. His words reveal the hidden mysteries of the Psyche and his aura is like a well that keeps going further and further into those distant regions of the mind. He is a very powerful figure in history for sure.
The books/essays covered in this course are: Being & Time overview (If he does quote, it is the Macquarrie Robinson Translation) - Lecture 1 and 2 The Origin Of The Work (he uses the one published in Poetry Language Thought) - Letures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Basic Question Of Philosophy (published by Indianna) - 6, 7, 8 ,9, 11 very briefly The Way Back Into The Ground Of Metaphysics (as published in Pathmarks) - Last fifteen mins of 11, beginning of 12 The Age Of The World Picture (as published in The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essay) - 12, 13, 14 The Question Concerning Technology (TQCTAOE) - 15, 16, 17 The Thing (PLT) - 18 Building Dwelling Thinking (PLT) 19 Language (PLT) - 20, first twenty minds of 23, ,21 On The Way To Language (published by Harper One) - 22, 23, last fifteen mins of 10 The Turning (TQCTAOE) - 24 The Question Of Being (Pathmarks) - 25
Excellent lecture. I love the way he throws little introspective ideas into the general reflection about Yeats and the nature of the arts. But he didnt talk about A Vision as much as I was expecting. Does anyone know any useful secondary resources, in particular lectures, essays, books by people who are sensitive or open to supernatural and occult worldviews, that will help me make sense of this difficult book?
Pure and utter garbage. The bible is an old book of magic and fairy tales. You teach it the same way you teach about Spenser's Faerie Queen or Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings. Context, background, content.
My experience with salvia divinorum has left me wondering. I'm pretty sure I encountered a nested entity. It was made of intense white lite. I could see an outline of human form but could see no defining characteristics. Like a prism, 3 tall robed beings with human features were standing shoulder to shoulder above the lightbeing. They looked identical to each other, having high bridged noses and long black hair. They seemed masculine and feminine or homogenous. The lightbeing laughed with thunderous disdain. At best, it found me humorous! That was the last time I smoked salvia!
There are also other historians of civilization with interesting research achievements, for example, the Polish historian and philosopher, Feliks Koneczny, who expressed a view that ethics is the most important factor deciding about growth and development of civilization
This might just be the single most important video on Platonic Philosophy / Jungian Psychology. It is like a theory of everything. Everyone needs to rewatch it multiple times to grasp the entire scope of it. I am in awe
I wish I could ask Dreyfus a question regarding lecture 4/5. Maybe someone else can offer theirs. Can you compare the indecipherable hieroglyphics on Queeqegs body and casket to the colored glasses of polytheism mentioned in the earlier lectures? Are these synonymous or are the hieroglyphics a more deep, intrinsic, ineffable structure that influences the color of our glasses, which we can swap with the colors of others but only from our own hieroglyphic roots. Like an Orthodox Russian studying Buddhism with great interest and learning from it, but still remaining in his orthodox roots of perspective.
” Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air ; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea“ : The Symphony, Herman Melville ; Moby Dick
I feel so "dumb"..I literally have never heard of "r a w" until today...he is fkn fascinating !! Wowie lucky us to have this !!! Thank u thank u thank u
