Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:
Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism – the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]
Admit
"When a man does not admit he is an animal, he is less than an animal…. Blake was the revolt of one man. He was not a revolutionary but a man in revolt. A creature in revolt can conceive that there is NO solution and that there will be unending construction and destruction…. Blake revolted [...]
Antichrist
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity." – Isadora Duncan, 1878-1927
"Inside every saint there appeared a heretic struggling to get out; and the converse. One man's [...]
Apocalypse
"What a tragic world this is. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it, they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. [...]
Art II
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." – Jean Arp
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus." – William Blake
Black & White
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps [...]
Breeds
"The sleep of reason breeds monsters" – Goya
"The man who never alters his opinion is like the stagnant water and breeds Reptiles of the mind." – William Blake
Doors
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." – William Blake
"Peeping through my keyhole I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, [...]
Energy Body
"There is..a sense in which the body is not real; but that body that is not real is the false body of the separate self, the reality-ego. That false body must be cast off… The human body is not a thing, or substance…but a continous creation… The human body is an energy system… which [...]
Giants
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton
"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two." – George Herbert, 1593-1632
"The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, [...]
