Toward Repurposing Self-First Mind In View of the Global Crisis and Threat to Civilization, a Phenomenological Narrative by an Accidental Mystic |
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| Author:
| Guy, James |
| Illustrator:
| Guy, James |
| ISBN: | 979-8-218-17345-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2023 |
| Publisher: | Avataric Allusions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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My friend Tim Leary said: "Don't take LSD ? unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind." And Alan Watts' advice to those who did go out of their mind: "If you get the message, hang-up the phone? go away and work on what you have seen." Of those accidental mystics since the psychedelic 60's, few have had the audacity to publish their "work," and perhaps none as a phenomenological narrative into the whole "geometry of mind", from how it was acquired to its purpose. This...
More DescriptionMy friend Tim Leary said: "Don't take LSD ? unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind." And Alan Watts' advice to those who did go out of their mind: "If you get the message, hang-up the phone? go away and work on what you have seen." Of those accidental mystics since the psychedelic 60's, few have had the audacity to publish their "work," and perhaps none as a phenomenological narrative into the whole "geometry of mind", from how it was acquired to its purpose. This both personal exploration and virtual collaboration with the outlier genius of Malcolm David Lowe, Charles S. Peirce, G. Spencer-Brown, and Arthur M. Young combines with the aesthetic of Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game to form an immediate demand on "mind" and civilization.