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Kureishi A Look at over Ostornol

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.

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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.