Notes
Notes and asides reflecting the perspectives of various academic disciplines
The Deprogrammer
"The cultists have been told not to talk, that conversing with "Satan" will allow "Satan" to get to them. They are advised to close their ears, not to listen, to shut "Satan" out. Often the cultists try to block themselves off from those around them with chanting or trances. They believe their new life [...]
Divine 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 [...]
Double Bind
"This dividedness, this potential confusion over the state in which the subject finds itself, is, I believe, the beginning of an opposition between the "inner" and "outer" realms of the subject, which laid the foundation for a phenomenon recognized by modern researchers to be instrumental in producing the disconnected bodily state known as schizophrenia: the [...]
