/lit/ - Literature

>>12004296
>The whole question of what is the state of a mind included in a higher mind/intellectual system is the question of the mystics. Plotinus could be super useful to you to articulate this - his idea is that the self is actually re-discovering itself through ascension in different levels, which would make our individual/animal simply a lower manifestation of higher levels of being a "self", such as that of the hyposthatic Intellect. But Plotinus has his peculiar ensouled/all-is-minded metaphysics to support these ideas. Maybe there is a way where his thought touches thinkers like Land or the others you are mentioning though. I do believe though, that if we are talking about loss of self in a greater organism/intelligence, we need to bring the mystics in the game, because they have a great deal of experience when it comes to ego death and being absorbed by higher entities - if there's someone who can describe the modality of implementing smaller intellectual realities in a larger, all-comprehensive one, it's them.
preach it

preach
that
shit
homeboy

in terms of Bringing Mystics Into the Game, mi amigo this is my entire thing wholly and not partially. it is all i do. the nondual sensibility is exactly what is called for atm. i find myself continually coming back to this idea, time and again, mainly by way of Girard, but also Confucius. the key thing that is missing in political discourse is *the presence of doubt.* it is not when you know *too little* about the other guy, but when you know *too much...*

the phenomenon of mutually assured destruction points to nothing more than this, that the perception of life as a mechanical chess-game (and one in which, in a situation of technologial breakaway, becomes increasingly self-automating or predictive) is exactly why Girard matters in terms of his thesis about the absence of self-limiting conditions, the escalation to extremes. and we fucking *love* extremes, in a very deep sense; we are even built for them. again, this is why a guy like Bataille, for instance, really matters: because the Accursed Share or other ideas of a desire massively in excess of rational utility confounds any notion of capital as being inherently rational. and yet today the situation is *also* not one of excess *rationalism* but of excess *irrationalism* - and two forms of mutually enabling irrationalism that only catapult each other towards ever-higher states of irony, disaffection, and weaponized media gimmickry.

it is bullshit
it has to stop
>it will never stop, girardfag, fufufu
>okay inner self but it probably should tho, right?
>fire will be the judge of all things girardfag
>well, that suits you fine. but unfortunately i'm the one who has to live in this fucking world
>kek

so yeah. the mystical/nondual perspective is required, both in a political sense *and* in a personal sense. i'm already starting to get cozy with the idea of Zen Acceleration: it's not about Utopia, it's about *balance.*