Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the content and design of this website:
- 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…
Gate
"we live in a cage of light an
incredible cage
animals animals without end" - Ikkyu
"There is, in every man, an animal thus imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate,…
Meat Poetry
Just “discovered” a
beat poet named Michael McClure - fucking amazing shite, have never heard of this guy before but will definitely buy everything he’s ever written off of amazon.com, pronto!
YOU’RE A BAG OF MEAT! A white sack of soft skin…
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
Antinomianism
"I agree with Nietzche that to be truly free, one must commit evil [acts]" - Georges Bataille
"Man is evil - all the wisest men have told me that to comfort me. Oh, if only this were true today! For…
Becoming God
"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God." - Eric Butterworth
"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that…
Church
"My true church is a whorehouse - the only one that gives me true satisfaction." - Georges Bataille
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced." - Marquis De Sade, 1740-1814
"The Church has had its fangs…
Good & Evil
"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil." - Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"So far…
Monks
“I loathe monks. For me, turning away from the world, from chance, from the truth of bodies, is shameful. No greater sin exists.” - Georges Bataille
Poison
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison." - Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"In all things there is a poison, and there is nothing without a poison. It depends…
