Tag Archives: philosophy

Taboo, Transgression, and Death

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Taboo, Transgression, and Death We are not always able to remain true to our taboos all of the time. We allow a limited amount of transgression during certain situations to compensate for the building urge to return to … Continue reading →

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The Headless Way

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : The Headless Way The Headless Way offers you a practical, user-friendly way to see Who you really are. This method was developed by the philosopher Douglas Harding. At the heart of this approach are the Experiments – awareness … Continue reading →

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Bataille's Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Bataille’s Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate Bataille's "heterology" – from the Greek word for difference – concerns the different as such. It is the difference that must be expelled from the same in order for the same … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Georges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism French philosophers of the 20th century… took the new insights of Friedrich Nietzsche to its extreme and developed a totally new and unheard of philosophy: postmodernism. Crucial in the development … Continue reading →

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Definition of metanarrative

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Definition of metanarrative Stories employed to legitimate the mechanisms of social control. Thus, for example, when parents tell their children, "We only want to help you avoid our mistakes," they are constructing a metanarrative that justifies the imposition … Continue reading →

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Science Fiction and Gnosticism

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Science Fiction and Gnosticism The gnostic religion, which flourished in the first through third centuries A.D., provides an excellent paradigm for the understanding of the type of religious awareness that much SF favors. The gnostics, regarded as heretics … Continue reading →

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Why I am Not a Postmodernist

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Why I am Not a Postmodernist Postmodernists complain that science is a cultural prejudice, and/or a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power, and/or only one "way of knowing" among many, with no special privilege. For … Continue reading →

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Philip K Dick as "Vortex Victim"

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : Philip K Dick as "Vortex Victim" Phil wasn’t nuts. Phil was a vortex victim.* Schizophrenia is not a psychological disorder peculiar to human beings. Schizophrenia is not a disease at all but rather a localized traveling discontinuity of … Continue reading →

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George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism The core duality of Bataille’s thought is thus between the profane and the sacred. In a first moment, this distinction can be read along the lines of the double intentionality of self-consciousness, … Continue reading →

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The Necessary Devil of Twain, de Sade, Bataille and Artaud

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

Found : The Necessary Devil of Twain, de Sade, Bataille and Artaud The ultimate adversary in this view is the Gnostic’s evil Demiurge who rules not only the world but who in order to do so must disguise himself as … Continue reading →

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