Way to go Julian Barnes. I just ordered your Booker Prize winning book, The Sense of An Ending. Can’t wait to read it.
Going inside the mind of Philip K. Dick
The long awaited, oft written about and frequently speculated on Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is set for release November 7th.
His fiction is famous, but his philosophy has been somewhat controversial as he has been called a visionary, a prophet, a latter-day Gnostic Saint and a madman.
I’ve read bits of the Exegesis at the end of VALIS and it was fascinating. I’m sure the full volume will be mind-bending, dark and illuminating.
I can’t wait to read it.
A micro view of Armageddon
Trailer for Melancholia, the newest film by Lars Von Trier. I’m already haunted by this film and I haven’t even seen it yet.
I, Robot?
Mystic and esoteric teacher G.I. Gurdjieff wrote that,
Man such as we know him, is a machine.
I am too often reminded of this anytime I do something seemingly on auto-pilot. How did I get to work again? When did they build that new restaurant? Why did I just boil water for coffee?
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
- Hermann Hesse, from Demian
Great, dark, happy song
This song by Foster the People is so infectious.
Love the lyrics and the happy contrast to the dark theme in the arrangement.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
A Stunning Existential Documentary
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Still waiting or this to show up where I live, but the trailer for General Orders #9 completely took my breath away.