Category: Philosophy
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Civilization and its Discontents
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There are times in reading Freud’s grimly pessimistic assessment that I come up against a personal stonewall. His grasp of his own metaphysics and mastery of psychoanalysis can be stupefying especially when he applies his learnings about the individual analysand to the community at large, culture, civilzation, society, whatever term you…
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Thinking
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I’ve put Freud away for a while — Totem and Taboo, Civilization and Its Discontents, and Moses and Monotheism , his trilogy swan song at the end of his life, but not for too long. In their place I am rounding up the cattle in my new work, trying to incorporate major…
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In Search of Krishnamurti
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What is it to be a spiritual human being in a grossly materialistic world? Well, historically, most spiritual teachers urged us to surrender the things of the world. I suggest, if it is at all possible, to expunge the following from your mind. The Book of Mormon (“Chloroform in print…
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Staying Focused
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I see the years ahead of me, the shadows, the pinhole of light at the end and I endeavor on almost a daily basis to discover what it means to understand, to grasp, and to observe what I need to do as the days, weeks and years puddle together —…