Archive for June 2006
Multiple Personality Disorder
“Perhaps the most bizarre example of compartmentalization is the psychopathology referred to as multiple personality disorder, in which one body seems to be carrying around a number of distinct personalities. Some of them are sometimes cognizant of the existence of some of the others. The drama within this person becomes “Who is in control?” Interestingly,…
Read MoreOne God Universe
Consider the One God Universe: OGU. The spirit recoils in horror from such a deadly impasse. He is all-powerful and all-knowing. Because He can do everything, He can do nothing, since the act of doing demands opposition. He knows everything, so there is nothing for him to learn. He can’t go anywhere, since He is…
Read MoreAbout Monotheistic Dualism
Monotheistic dualism… presents an almost whimsical picture of a God who is a supreme egoist creating the universe for the express purpose of being worshipped… The question of whether God created the authoritarian form… or whether the form projected a God to justify itself, is not trivial. ((Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad. The Guru Papers:…
Read MoreNo Outside
“It is best to try to avoid thinking of the Big Bang as an explosion, even though it is usually described that way. The problem with the word explosion is this: it conjures an image in the mind’s eye that the Big Bang should be imagined from the outside, with the universe going “boom” and…
Read MoreThe Cosmic Cage
Now think of a cheetah that has been captured and thrown into a miserable cage in a zoo. It has lost its original grace and beauty, and is put on display for our amusement. We see only the broken spirit of the cheetah in the cage, not its original power and elegance. The cheetah can…
Read MoreDivine Implosion
“The universe is not born of the design or act of a genetic God, particularly since the genetic God in the Bible is only a degenerate God. The universe emerges from the process of the infinite retreating upon itself, as if this infinite were characterized by a kind of impurity. This retraction of the infinite…
Read MoreEntropic Complexity
“The deep structure of change is decay. What decays is not the quantity but the quality of energy. I shall explain what is meant by high quality energy, but for the present think of it as energy that is localized, and potent to effect change. In the course of causing change it spreads, becomes chaotically…
Read MoreThe Meat Poetry of Michael McClure
FOUND: Michael McClure YOU’RE A BAG OF MEAT! A white sack of soft skin and fat held in shape by a lot of bones!… obody’s free of being divine! When a man does not admit he is an animal, he is less than an animal. . . . Blake was the revolt of one man. He…
Read More