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Animals & Robots
“In contrast to man, animals are not mechanical or sadistic, and their societies (within the same species) are incomparably more peaceful than man’s societies. The basic question runs: What caused the human animal to deteriorate and become robotlike? His viciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in Notes & Annotations
Tagged animals, control-systems, double-bind, religion, sex
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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 … Continue reading
The Tree of Laws
The “Tree of Knowledge” was not a positive symbol for all gnostics but instead underwent numerous revisionist interpretations, sometimes several times within the same text; according to one passage in the Gospel of Philip, the “fall” occurred when Adam’s consciousness … Continue reading
Posted in Forbidden Fruit of Gnosis
Tagged aliens, Bible, Burroughs, demiurge, double-bind, fruit, gnostic, tree-of-knowledge
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