Reality is more like a novel, a novel in which you are a character
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yellowseed 1 year ago
yellowseed 1 year ago "So, after a thousand years of human marginalization, suddenly, through the injection of science, there is permission to believe that the cosmic drama really is about us, that we really do carry the load in this play."
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Where's the silly part?
and why is it so "silly"?
McKenna never says there is no world out there. His very first statement in this piece is that "the world is beyond your ability to conceive or imagine".
These cartoons of "idealism" people love using are never what the thinkers actually said, so let them go if you want to extract some meaning from their points. To my knowledge, McKenna never confessed any form of "idealism" anyway.
...I reflexively think of the postmodernism of the 80's and 90's...
It certainly is beneficial to take off our filters and blinders when approaching new terrain.
Because more than amusement, I see confusion and frustration.
So let it go, give it another listen.
And really, where's the "silly" part?
Peace
—ys.
self-dis-covery.blogspot.com
omgourd, really?
You comment on something you only half watched? How come?
Of course there is reality, they say, as they have just explained. What they explained, I imagine (another thing you gathered half of), is that reality is co-participatory, collaborative, cooperative. It's not just in here and it isn't just out there either. It is the individual and the eternal in a sexy sex dance. Try to listen without worrying about responding; esp. without worrying about how you will reconvey the data being promulgated. And get rid of your cynicism because it is lame. Skepticism isn't the enemy of Idealism. Cynicism is.
Oh and I love how you use the term 'idealism' derrisively. Yeah Idealism is so dumb. Who could possibly take the intrinsic interconnectivity of cosmos, our star-forged molecules compiling data of stars and star-stuff, and consider there is some over-arching design to existence which is both constructive and co-creative and meaningful, even on levels to which we have no access?
Jacob
now this I like
Thanks!
Did you have a point with it?
—ys.
self-dis-covery.blogspot.com