"In our time the young are turning to forms of what Lifton called 'experiencial transcendence' - the intense experience of a feeling state which, for a little while anyway, eliminates the problem of time and death...
Alan Harrington caught the mood beautifully: By embracing the Primordial Oneness I escape death before it can hit me. How can that shadowy menace keep an appointment in Samara with a man whose consciousness has already been dissolved?...In a discotheque, THE CAREWORN SELF IS SMASHED BY ECHOING GUITARS AND ELECTRONIC SHRIEKING, AND ITS FRAGMENTS ARE SCATTERED EVEN MORE FINELY BY SHOWERING AND SPLITTING LIGHT EFFECTS...THE NARCOTIC DRIFT WILL TAKE YOU TO SPACES BEYOND TIME AND DEATH, AS WILL AN ORGY OR A CHURCH ORGAN."
huh?
ReplyDelete"In our time the young are turning to forms of what Lifton called 'experiencial transcendence' - the intense experience of a feeling state which, for a little while anyway, eliminates the problem of time and death...
ReplyDeleteAlan Harrington caught the mood beautifully: By embracing the Primordial Oneness I escape death before it can hit me. How can that shadowy menace keep an appointment in Samara with a man whose consciousness has already been dissolved?...In a discotheque, THE CAREWORN SELF IS SMASHED BY ECHOING GUITARS AND ELECTRONIC SHRIEKING, AND ITS FRAGMENTS ARE SCATTERED EVEN MORE FINELY BY SHOWERING AND SPLITTING LIGHT EFFECTS...THE NARCOTIC DRIFT WILL TAKE YOU TO SPACES BEYOND TIME AND DEATH, AS WILL AN ORGY OR A CHURCH ORGAN."
excerpt from Ernest Becker's "Escape from Evil"
- huh?
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