Zen Sum Gain

"How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:14:55 -0500

““How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein”

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Alice in Wonderland (1903) (via BFIfilms)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:22:33 -0500

Alice in Wonderland (1903) (via BFIfilms)

Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe Logic Guerrilla ontologist....

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:32:56 -0500

Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe Logic

Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magickian. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope. Whatever the label and rank, Robert Anton Wilson is undeniably one of the foundations of 21th Century Western counterculture. Maybe Logic - The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson is a cinematic alchemy that conjures it all together in a hilarious and mind-bending journey guaranteed to increase your brain size 2 - 3 inches! From the water coolers and staff meetings of Playboy and the earth-shattering transmission of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, to fire-breathing senior citizen and Taoist sage, Robert Anton Wilson is a man who has passed through the trials of chapel perilous and found himself on wondrous ground where nothing is for certain, even the treasured companionship of a six-foot-tall white rabbit. Featuring RAW video spanning 25 years and the best of over 100 hours of footage thoroughly tweaked, transmuted and regenerated, Maybe Logic follows a reality labyrinth which leads through the hollows of human perception to the vast star fields of Sirius where we find one man alone, joyfully accepting his status as Damned Old Crank and Cosmic Schmuck. Beaming with insight, frustration, compassion, and unshakable optimism, the ever-open eye of Robert Anton Wilson penetrates human illusions exposing the mathematical probabilities and spooky synchronicities of the 8 dimensions of his Universe.

What you resist persist - Carl Yung (via bureaulamp123) Pet...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:05 -0500

What you resist persist - Carl Yung (via bureaulamp123)

Pet peeve: people who believe in “the Secret”. The problem with focusing on only one side is that you give power to its opposite. That goes both ways. Positivity casts a shadow. It stalks the ignorant. “What you resist persists” is a quote by Carl Jung often misused by “the Secret” peddlers to support their philosophy. There can be no front without a back. The true Secret is the two, seemly opposites, are really one. When you realize they are one then you can rise above both.

Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you
make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside,
and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and
a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the
Kingdom].” — From the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

Pet peeve #2: preachy diatribes

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London (via...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:35:50 -0500

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London (via BarbicanLondon)

RIP Howard Zinn

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:12:00 -0500

RIP Howard Zinn

The Gospel of Judas 1:26:40 - 1 year agoThis documentary...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:42:42 -0500

The Gospel of Judas

1:26:40 - 1 year agoThis documentary explains why the Gospel of Judas as not included in the canonized Bible.

The Gnostic Gospels. Morton Stith. icollege lecture 45:42 The...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:30:30 -0500

The Gnostic Gospels. Morton Stith. icollege lecture 45:42

The Gnostic Gospels are a class of writings about the life of Jesus which are associated with the early mystical trend of Gnostic Christianity. Morton Stith has taught art history at a number of American universities.The Pierian Spring academy is a non-profit, free-standing organization in Sarasota, Florida that offers lectures and courses for adults. Religion Philosophy icollege lecture - Ted Koszarski

Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent listening

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:35:19 -0500

Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent listening:

Follow the link to hear the recording.

2012 (via postmoderntimes)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:07:01 -0500

2012 (via postmoderntimes)

(via Google Video) Alan Watts - Time and the More It...

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:39:31 -0500

(via Google Video)

Alan Watts - Time and the More It Changes

Charismatic philosopher and mystic Alan Watts muses on the meaning of time and change, causality and the significance of being driven, and how in reality, the past is a result of the present.

Alan Watts - fear of enlightenment (via loveresurrection)

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:13:37 -0500

Alan Watts - fear of enlightenment (via loveresurrection)

SeeingRedRadio - Seeing Red Radio: V. I. Lenin: The Russian...

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:58:00 -0500

SeeingRedRadio - Seeing Red Radio: V. I. Lenin: The Russian Revolution Part One 10/15/09 - SoundCloud

V. I. Lenin

In honor of the 92nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, we present the first in a three part series, beginning with Ian Birchall’s talk, “The Rebel’s Guide to Lenin” from Marxism 2005 and available, along with many other informative talks, at Resistance MP3. For a collection of Ian Birchall’s articles for the IS, check here. Next week, we’ll devote to a talk on another significant participant in those momentous events, Leon Trotsky.

Music:
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Time Come
Leroy Smart & Friends – Sufferation in the Ghetto
Pete Seeger – Eyes on the Prize
Linval Thompson – Mr. Bossman
Rage Against the Machine – Year of Tha Boomerang
Mark Blitzstein & the New Singers – The Internationale

Original version broadcast on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 8 PM EST on WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM Valley Free Radio Northampton, MA

Program Length – 1:04:13

Carl Sagan 4th Dimension Explanation (via level81)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:04:40 -0500

Carl Sagan 4th Dimension Explanation (via level81)

I Know It Is Possible To Live With Zero Money, Abundantly (Living Without Money)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:20:24 -0500

I Know It Is Possible To Live With Zero Money, Abundantly (Living Without Money):

“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man’s worth couldn’t be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorney or politicians, therefore we couldn’t cheat. We were in a really bad way before the white man came, and I don’t know how we managed to get along without the basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.” — Lakota Sage Lame Deer (from John Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions)

“I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.”- Abraham Lincoln
Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain The inside...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:11:24 -0500

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in “What the bleep do we know?;” and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management.

" Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing on Huffduffer"

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:21 -0400

“ Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing on Huffduffer”

- Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing on Huffduffer

Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009.

William S. Burroughs “Photography is like Zen...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:10:45 -0400

William S. Burroughs “Photography is like Zen Buddhism” Film Clips | The Beat Hotel

The Beat Hotel, a new film by Documentary Arts, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.

The Beat Hotel, as it came to be called, was a sanctuary of creativity, but was also, as British photographer Harold Chapman recalls, “an entire community of complete oddballs, bizarre, strange people, poets, writers, artists, musicians, pimps, prostitutes, policemen, and everybody you could imagine.” And in this environment, Burroughs finished his controversial book Naked Lunch; Ian Somerville and Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine; Corso wrote some of his greatest poems; and Harold Norse, in his own cut-up experiments, wrote the novella, aptly called The Beat Hotel.

The film tracks down Harold Chapman in the small seaside town of Deal in Kent England. Chapman’s photographs are iconic of a time and place when Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, Burroughs, Gysin, Somerville and Norse were just beginning to establish themselves on the international scene. Chapman lived in the attic of the hotel, and according to Ginsberg “didn’t say a word for two years” because he wanted to be “invisible” and to document the scene as it actually happened.

In the film, Chapman’s photographs and stylized dramatic recreations of his stories meld with the recollections of Elliot Rudie, a Scottish artist, whose drawings of his time in the hotel offer a poignant and sometimes humorous counterpoint. The memories of Chapman and Rudie interweave with the insights of French artist Jean-Jacques Lebel, author Barry Miles, Danish filmmaker Lars Movin, and the first hand accounts of Oliver Harris, Regina Weinrich, Patrick Amie, Eddie Woods, and 95 year old George Whitman, among others, to evoke a portrait of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso and the oddities of the Beat Hotel that is at once unexpected and revealing.

http://www.thebeathotelmovie.com

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:10:33 -0400

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[poem] The Scrabble Day Trippers, 06.18.04

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:53:18 -0400

You hate to lose at Scrabble; especially the

way it loosens your resistance to loving me.

The interlaying of words is almost sexual: a

double letter French kiss, a triple word orgasm.

In the meantime of turns, you romanticize

the future through the context of our ocean

view: photography on Prince Edward Island

in a shack by a lighthouse. I, on the other

hand, am sentimental for the occasions of

strolling the promenade on wispy October

mornings or of shore side meditations and

midnight make out sessions.

There’s a vulgar sense of indulgence as we

play on the restaurant patio. As if our apparent

sophistication is somehow inappropriate for

the beach scene. Our tightly buttoned sweaters

must seem eccentric among these scantly clad

hipsters. Even our sleek SLR cameras, loaded

with B&W film, defy the typical tourist profile.

Chewing knuckle hairs, I struggle with my

limited vernacular. And you are all vowels

clicking the pieces with rhythmic impatience.

Finally, in a triumphant uproar, I plunk down

my letters ceremoniously. You tongue your

cheek then slap your forehead, as Q-U-A-Z-A-R

defeats you.

The victory kiss is reluctant but sweet. The

rematch as certain as heartache.