Monday, July 21, 2008
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Where R The Arrows In The Paper City
competition encourages us to achieve greater social achievement and is manifested in consumerism and progress, struggling to live with the neighbor to be the best. We no longer live watching over each other but each other. Many feel in the air power of a black hand to acting and manipulating keep it that way ... maybe they are right, some chains are interested in maintaining and further fuel the illusion generating meaningless progress, but also share them as puppeteers function of the shadows in the cave ... we live in a hedonistic culture that appears to believe unconsciously in immortality, we know of death, but no one believed in his own death, evading live satisfying the senses without looking beyond just letting ourselves be guided by the illusion of shadows. Our society due to illusion, to be tied to the sensible world great calamities committed against himself and lives thinking the world is a great site which every man must conquer an expansive effort by encompass everything without understanding anything, obsessed with having everything in his power and under its parameters as a cancer within the body, and damage is evident. Are the most damaging animal and annihilating the planet, it destroys everything in our way and believe that everything is at our disposal for the feast of life, over-exploiting nature and the animals subjected to extermination speciesist. We behave as ignorant and violent to only see the shadows of the cave.
in today's life market devours us and the love of money competes with the love of our fellow ourselves and the real values, because they love what sells. It's amazing how a valuable role as money call seizes all our energy and work as slaves to him. This undoubtedly is because they are tied to strings.
The Cave of prisoners represents the dark side, symbolizes ignorance and obscurantism, is common sense and a view supported by our prejudices and beliefs. In Plato's time, science was a tool to get rid of chains and learn more about the sensible world as a springboard to reach the insensitive world beyond matter. Today science can not become the great tool that should be in the search further, shapes their knowledge and guide their studies through a paradigm that nurtures and shapes for itself, progress and forming their own tools. Science has also fallen into the cave. Empirical experimentation, preferred method of science, is guided by what the senses perceive, the shadows, only a fragment of reality, leaving aside the insensitive world that only the soul can reach. It is therefore very important to the vision the man who has freed himself from the chains, the philosopher, about the real importance and effectiveness of science.
So we blinded by our expertise in the drama of the human condition, that of the immediate experiences without knowing authentic. Ignorance like a disease whose cure is difficult, but you can heal. The man can free himself from chains, the man who began his liberation must begin by looking at the shadows, then reflections, then the objects, then observe the sky and the sun (ascending dialectic) the sensible world of shadows and objects to the world of ideas, because only the soul can get to heaven and absolute knowledge.
Some spiritual currents and guides the spirit, say a large energy conversion that happens every long ages of humanity. Now is about to occur, bringing a change evolution of our spiritual consciousness and this time will be the turn of women to guide this great change. Maybe women have better luck in guiding humanity out of the cave, perhaps his mother and his mighty power shaper gift of life, managed to reach the soul of all his brothers, who could be his children, and free from illusion of the shadows. If the man has dominated this long was strongly emphasizing the power of the body, perhaps the female dualism could highlight the side of bringing soul world of ideas.
The knowledge of the philosopher is seen as subversive by the society and customs. Philosophy is an activity of questioning and has nothing to do with knowledge is more developed and a critical attitude on our thinking. know, embrace the new and wonder in front of it. Recognizing the mistakes the philosopher knows his limits and ask for the world, winning and sanity. philosophy is not a restricted elite, all as humans can achieve this philosophy and is achieved by maintaining a questioning view of reality, a critical spirit that transcends common sense.
at this time to get rid of ignorance we must fight against the major impediment of modern man, laziness. inertia that keeps us in the role of the shadows. Our chains of custom and inherited beliefs since birth by the society we cling to the illusion, and we blur the vision without achieving the strength to break free from captivity. So men are kept busy in passing pleasures and vices and death away from clinging to their egos projected future exist which are immortal.
Man to be released may see the sun and beyond the image of the sun but the sun itself. As the giver of life created the world and the seasons, a truth beyond the mere image of the sun. When the man understood the idea of \u200b\u200bgood, as the sun's rays feed on all living beings always wisely intuit the upper path towards the evolution of his being, natural state that seeks the spirit, as chalice energy God present in every atom in the universe. The liberated man will find his true identity, the receiver being achieved through consciousness, all absolute infinite existence.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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The scenario is bleak: in a post-apocalyptic United States, a father with his son are pushing a grocery cart - where carry their few belongings - a silent and disturbing road bound for the coast south to escape the cold.
Broadly speaking this would be the argument of the latest novel by Cormac McCarthy: The Road (2007) won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize . Speaking of awards and to refresh her memory, not long ago film No Country for Old Men (the Latin translation of horrific No country for old man ) directed by the Cohen Brothers took the statuette for best movie just passed version of the Oscars, the which is based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Here is the natural replacement for Paul Auster - in the sense of boom - and who owns the Crazy secrecy that we like the American narrators, adding to JD Salinger and Thomas Pynchon who have been wiped off the map and its only connection with reality is presented as a novel.
waking in the woods in the cold and dark night had stretched out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Darkest nights that darkness and each of the days more gray than the previous day
So begins Highway, that is the atmosphere of the space found in the surviving father and son, of whom do not know their names or almost nothing of his past except the ambiguous flashback the narrator gives us the possible suicide of the mother and wife of our protagonists, the not be able to withstand the wasteland that has become their home.
This eventually remember we used to calculate the civilized world has been extinct for 10 years - since the child was born a little before that - have died most people, it rains non-stop - a temporary grayer than ever to become extinct any kind of animal or plant that we knew. The secrecy of the narrator gives us little or nothing about the reason that the world has ended, although there are some lights that could have been a nuclear holocaust. For what they hoped a novel full of zombies and aliens, like any Holocaust as seen by Hollywood - forget it, on Highway see only ordinary humans - like you and me - who practice cannibalism to avoid starvation in a world that, honestly, and not worth it survive.
The cards are on the table: the minimum amount of information received from the narrator, we have only scratched the surface and depend on us-as readers-build, interpret and speculate what it hides McCarthy.
Now we join with the couple of players in their journey to the coast, we know what is the reason that motivates him to go there Will you still hope? He has already lost all hope, the only thing that motivates him to continue to survive is to protect your child from the presence of others. That becomes his main goal.
- We must move away from the road
- Why, Dad?
- Someone comes
- Are Bad?
The construction of the novel continually uses this kind of dialogue to show the interaction between father and children, and throughout the novel wears this relationship with the absence of dialogue, the end closest to the language.
Another interesting stylistic feature is the neutral narrator says in the novel, his descriptions of space or actions that are occurring are reported like reading a movie, words such as moving images.
The economy of prose McCarthy close to the minimalism of Ernest Hemingway allows us to keep an objective account, but the cold mathematics of telling not be an impediment to convey the anguish, fear, hunger and cold of the protagonists, making the reader begins to feel like them, becoming one more of the survivors.
He sat on the road at noon in the best light they would have and cut the stitches with scissors and the scissors back cabinet and pulled out tweezers. Proceeded to tear your skin small black threads, pressing with the heel toe. The boy watched him sitting on the road. The man grabbed the ends of the wires and clamps it was pulling out one by one. Blood spots. When he had finished I keep the tweezers and covered the wound with gauze and then got up and pulled his pants and handed the kit to the boy to keep it.
Thus operates the narrator worries carefully detailing all the movements of monotonous wandering of the stars with long phrases that connects through the illative "and" instead of using commas or other punctuation marks, thus allowing the narrative acquires a rhythm. This resource using McCarthy plays the role of the passage of a scene (or sequence to be precise) to one that is characteristic of cinematic storytelling, resulting in juxtaposition of images that enrich the literary narrative.
Cloths seems that has finally returned after the start. In the early days where he carries the fire has the power. Is this our fate?
The road is one of those novels that one refuses to end, dosing in fifteen-page daily readings for stay as long as possible in the stifling universe. In one way or another we as survivors, we feel special the mere fact of being there. Nobody can deny that his head has not passed the sublime fantasy of being the last man standing in what remained of the world.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Follow Up Email Interview
By José Pedro Jarpa
Ostornol Antonio was born in Santiago de Chile in 1954, is the author of the cult novel The obsessive world of Benjamin Castilian studied pedagogy at the Catholic University and did a Masters in prestigious University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Today is the Director of Studies at the School of Literature at the Universidad Finis Terrae. We had half an hour to do the interview, everything was perfect, he knows very closely Kureishi's work and has great fondness for Anglo postmodernist authors, the novel workshop was the path that led me to Kureishi. Dato no less, if we think it has become one of my header novelists.
What draws the attention of Kureishi's work, and what you think has been their contribution to the literature?
Kureishi has two major contributions in terms of the worlds it builds.
First with the integration process of this globalized world, the phenomenon of contemporary migration, these mixtures which are formed in the developed world to the developing world with all the social, economic, cultural, religious and large cities how are you species of large machines to build more integrated human beings all that preferably The Buddha of Suburbia is a great novel integration along to be a novel growth and development of character, this novel of adolescents are becoming men, but is also looking at initiating this process of integration of this character is no longer in either of the two worlds and must be integrated . The open borders.
And second is to enable readers to access the nature of contemporary life, go beyond social, is the human being after the big stories, postmodern man which comes to a narrative intimate you can play with the title: Intimacy is "intimate novel" that you are looking to get into the heart of everyday life a character, an ordinary character. The great grace of Kureishi is put on the table that the discourse of contemporary society.
Another great contribution in the area would recover more literary language of the street, his narrative is made to the language of everyday life is a person who speaks as anyone, and has many pop culture references mixed with classic culture that allows you to build a blender of items that his writing is getting broader and more open.
What differences in terms of style, theme and treatment the character from the novels The Buddha of Suburbia and Privacy ?
novels are two different global design The Buddha of Suburbia is a broad look from the character's eyes look at the world and the world opens up to the readers character is like a light that goes in and out at different points and is showing us for things. Privacy the vector is made inside, we took off and the objective situation is getting speech inward character, we increasingly go into that world of internal discussion of character with its surroundings, and the exterior is much less relevante.Creo maintaining a very similar language, there is a difference stylist. Recognizing the differences of the characters themselves The Buddha of Suburbia collected more youth discourse in Privacy have already been 20 years, is a young adult with children who are watching from another position with a more complete language but corresponds to the equivalent of young but speaking from a 40 years, that's the difference.
"One could look at all the characters one Kureishi as they mature over time?
One would think that might be true, although Intimacy is not marked the race issue, he's a middle-class London, and has the narrator's racial gesture The Buddha of Suburbia.
How philosophy is reflected in the characters and the issues in the Kureishi work?
I can say that the characters probably has an attitude to be more than ascribing to the philosophy of mind hard analytical philosophy of life, you have to The Buddha of Suburbia the father as a great view of life, a way of standing to reality with this world that is built wider integration. Instead the key points in the general characters of the two novels are degraded vision of modernity, is a utilitarian philosophy is the philosophy that allows you to stand up every day, there is a great idea.
Something that if I have it clear that his characters embody the look clearly postmodern, are characters without major projects, which have a single view of reality, are characters that allow you to change, doubt, and withdraw all terribly honest.
Is it for you The Buddha of Suburbia a Bildungsroman?, In what sense?
Yes, I do not know the actual impact of the novel has had on generations is to represent a generation or be an icon, but has all the attributes to be very well could be the equivalent of The Catcher in the Rye Salinger
or of Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis is in that line could be a lot of people who now have between 40 and 50 years who experienced that era feel identified with what is related to the Buddha of Suburbia.
Kureishi in the magazine of books, publishing on Friday March 31, 2006, said: "Like any writer to tell human stories, which are more about characters than about facts." Do you what to use, with the stories of the events or characters?
I think
it is a false choice, that's more because on how one would come the stories, how you install, there are writers who through his eyes and his way of approaching reality focus more on the characters' world There are others who are more action, a novel is not novel because it is more on characters than action, it has to do with the interaction between the writer and the world.
If I look at my work could say that I'm closer to the novel's characters in action.
The point is that when you feel what you want to, you can assembly building with its central character and history, if you're not very good characters and an interesting story you have not novel.
The mixture of autobiography and fiction in the narrative of Kureishi, "it confuses ends helps close reading of his books?
I think if there is overlap biographies do not know because I have not read Kureishi's life, does not bring or take anything away from his novels, I believe that Kureishi's novels are completely self-sufficient, it could be pure fiction and going to work because the world knows or it could be pure biography as written works fine in a novel.
no guarantee that the reader knows the writer's life and also how the biography moves the text is very straightforward.
Do you think the novel Privacy opened a path not explored in the literature to masculinity in crisis?
Actually I have no reference to what was his inclusion in the story, because the issue it addresses is going through all the literature contemporary. Kureishi gives the theme is installed either in the world, is quite radical in that position.
Privacy In this complete change of asymmetry where the woman takes a role of providing stable and he is installing in emotional crisis. This novel is about the male role, in love with the couple as an institution with a super look inglorious here marriage is not something glorious is cloudy and gray, but necessary.
What British writer dream team (Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro) is similarities with the style of Kureishi?
I have not read them all, but with McEwan and Amis is this relationship that his novels are fully integrated into everyday life, ordinary, everyday, urban gray and anonymous.
So, they would be representatives of "dirty realism" English?
Something like that, are the ones taking the lives of anti-heroes, here the heroes of the novel its only saving grace is that the city survive.
As a writer, what elements of the narrative of Kureishi have been helpful?
Above all envy (smiles) causes you to feel more like you write, I love Kureishi writes an author who excites me and identifies me a lot. Another point that rescue is that clarity that has to tell, in my case is different for this to be an average Latin American baroque author, I wish I could have that simplicity of the minimum sentence and precisely where Countess Kureishi and contains a tremendous amount of information, powerful and hard. I try to do it but most times not successful.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Where Are The Arrows In The Paper City
shamanic consciousness
Ralph Metzner
As a psychologist, I have devoted to studies on consciousness, including altered states induced by drugs, plants and other means for over thirty-five years. My interest turned instead to the plant hallucinogens * or "psycho", who have a long history of shamanic societies rather than the newly discovered powerful drugs, which often involve unknown risks. In recent times I have seen the rebirth of interest in shamanism and sacred plants as part of a search, which now takes place across the globe, aiming to renew the spiritual relationship with the natural world. In shamanic societies - that is, those in which it accepts the reality of other worlds, intangible - has always paid considerable attention to the cultivation of a relationship perceptual and direct spiritual animals, plants and the earth itself in all its magnificent variety. Our modern materialist conception, with its obsessive emphasis on technological progress and the control and exploitation of what he calls "natural resources" dissociated itself almost entirely spiritual awareness of nature. This split between human spirituality and nature has its roots in antiquity, but one of their primary sources was the rise of mechanistic science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The resurrection of the animistic beliefs, the movement of deep ecology and eco psychology, and the renewed interest in shamanic practices, the use of hallucinogenic plants or "entheogenic" (Greek Entheos, divinely inspired) * represents a meeting of science and spirituality, who had been divorced from the seventeenth century. Many of the items can be found in the anthropological literature on shamanism and the use of hallucinogenic plants, also appear on the experiences of people taking such drugs within a religious or therapeutic. Proceed to list these items: 1. The place and context, the context and intent with which it carries out the experience are crucial. This had already been found in investigations of the psychedelic sixties. 2. The experience can be healing both the physical plant and in the psychic and spiritual. This healing includes first be broken up, destroyed or "killed" and then reconstituted with a healthier and stronger body. The break is a classic feature of shamanic healing worldwide. Moreover, the three "levels" to which I refer are concepts derived from an analysis: the real experience, these levels are not separated but are coexisting simultaneously. 3. The experience may give access to hidden knowledge, is the aspect of diagnosis, divination or vision. Hence, people call these plants "master." 4. It feels and perceives one has access to other non-material worlds, which is designated in various ways: internal worlds, spiritual worlds, "the afterlife", the reality aside, the other reality. This access can be achieved with a trip to this world or the spiritual beings of this appear in our world, or the usual boundaries between it and the other will fade and become permeable. 5. The experience may include the perception of non-material spiritual beings, usually invisible. It acknowledges its association with certain animals, plants, trees or fungi, or certain places. You may also imply that one identifies with the spirit or transform it. It is perceived that the vision and healing are produced by these spirits or with your help. 6. An essential element to cause hallucinogenic experiences to listen to music or songs, or sing yourself, providing support to cross the flow of visions and prevents one from being "stuck" or phenomena being detained by either seductive or frightening. 7. Traditional ceremonies are held forever in the dark or low light, apparently, this facilitates the emergence of the visions. Which means that many people return to these ancient spiritual and healing traditions in a modern world, dominated by multinational financial corporations, computers and electronic networks? Is well known that the industrial capitalist system which now dominates the world economically and politically is devastating the livelihoods of life in the biosphere and tearing the fabric of life on the planet. For the experience of millions of individuals in the western world with hallucinogenic sacraments, as well as other shamanic practices, we are witnessing the revival of ancient integrative worldview that sees all life in an interdependent network of relationships that must be carefully protected and preserved . The respectful use of entheogenic plant medicine in spiritual or therapeutic contexts can play a hugely significant role in this direction. * I use the adjectives "psychedelic, hallucinogenic and" entheogen "as synonyms. Some people reject the term "hallucinogen" arguing that a hallucination is a perception of illusory and that, strictly speaking, these plants do not cause hallucinations. However, the original Latin term meaning "alucinare" is "one's mind wander" and I think the metaphor of "journey" or "travel" by the interior space is very appropriate to describe the experience that induces these substances. Therefore, I think the term "hallucinogen" should be rehabilitated. Based on a presentation by author in Transpersonal Association conference International held in Manaus, Brazil, in May l996.