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huh.
i have friends who were down with the o.t.o. and other related things but i was never able to get with it because of the way in which the religious dimension(s) work(ed)...my personal attitude is more on the order of: if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him.
this not literally of course.
more in the sense of if there are areas to be explored and/or things to be understood or known or transmitted they would vary with each period and if they vary with each period at the levels of form and content so obviously at the level of meanings and implications, it follows that they have to be assembled in ways specific to each period.
religious thinking tends to posit a repeating essence, be it at the level of rhetoric at the level of ritual at the level of insight or meaning. and that seems to me an aesthetic matter that has little to nothing to do with getting to whatever these things might be that need to be assembled or known or transmitted with are particular to each period.
you say people are prevented from moving to the heart of some machinery out of fear.
i think people are moved to posit a single machinery into the heart of which they can move out of the same fear.
obviously it's fine to believe as you like: whatever you see yourself as finding Out There you will find in ways and in terms that are particular to how you imagine the Out There to be. it's like that with everyone i suspect.
but if it's like that with everyone, then it makes little sense to posit a single Out There or an unbroken chain of Out Theres or a single message or even the idea of a message or a higher being or beings.
it also makes little sense to not posit a higher being or beings or the idea of a message or a single message that comes through an unbroken chain of Out Theres or through a single Out There.
either way, you find what you are looking for in the way that you are looking for it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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