Butte /Gold Hill
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On the back wall was a large electric sign flashing with betting numbers. “In Montana,” the old man said, “people drink too much, fight too much, and love too much. Old prospectors, gamblers, women of the night, miners, Indians, cowboys, and tourists who look like newly arrived aliens among them.” I felt like a piece of rotten cheese entering an anthill (my entire conception of the DIARY had matured during the Montana nights—all the meaning I needed was there; it was as if I were descending from "rainy" metaphysical concerns back to the noisy home of the Self). Progressively, I had escaped from the DIARY's initial "mystique de haschich" to what, by essence and necessity, began to spring from the historical and political situation of America and, at the same time, to "teknè," the political and economic aptitude to achieve everything that was possible to recognize. My overall view of events was closely linked to the personality of the statesman, to his particular visions, for the "being" of the State would always depend on his strength and stance (Diese Anschauung von Politk und Staat ist eng an die Person des genialen Staatsmannes gebunden). The State should be founded on the "being of the people" and not on the bonfire of the vanities of institutional politics, on the deviations and maneuvers of the opposition, and even less on the bogus nihilism of the rational pretensions of the liberal media. Therefore, it impressed me very positively that I was playing cards in the nights of Montana saloons; smoke and whiskey since 1880; days of herds of cattle traveling to Texas; of sheepdogs as shaggy as those of Colorado. I went out into the cold mountain night alone after satisfying my soul with cards. "The old world of gambling," I thought then, "unity of blood and source of Montana." Stammeseinheit—a part of Schmitt's vocabulary worked there I lingered in my post-rational thought, following the clues of the spirit's progress. The "living bond" (lebendige Verbundenheit) that unites the leader to the people (Gefalgschaft). In the Montana night, and even more intensely in the young cowboys and miners and their brave women. A state only truly "is" when it becomes the "historical being" of the entity called the people. Being, essence, truth of being... meditations that informed my strategy at dawn, when I boarded the bus. Soon I was descending the mountain and, looking back, I saw Butte still like a jewel in the mist, shining on the slope... Gold Hill and the blue northern dawn in slow motion. Being often becomes visible, escaping all possibility of representation (again, rocks, snow, valleys and open spaces, and forests and wild sagebrush). Soon I was walking in the OPEN WORLD under the soft sun at Three Forks, where the Madison and Missouri, in strange confluence, play; where the Missouri, in midwinter, is swollen and frozen over many acres of ranchland...
Post script
ResponderExcluirperhaps this journey had begun shortly before - in Denver
PARIS ---- DENVER --- ETC. I didn't touch this notebook while I was in Paris. James Joyce ate at Fouquet's and spent nights at Madame Lapeyre's Bistro on the corner of Rue de Grenelle and Rue de Borgognne. Céline's Rainey... and Rue St. Denis was her "sick street." A few sublimities to enrich my travel thoughts during the flight back. All because of the nature of Time, which presented itself as a marked time; because Paris seemed excessively everyday to me in the streets at night, in the carefully chosen places where I visited; some literary influences remained stronger than ever, my writing was almost a mystical extension of them. And I had told her that my faith in the method was entirely in the sense of unraveling the spell of the world's ultimate configuration. The concrete Nothingness and the Nothingness of the great, gelatinous virtual world. The pathos tangled with explanatory gears, some more, some less convincing. – We can chat a bit before contemplating the midday calm, with poetic license forming a Whole with Nothing; we will certainly glimpse a round shape from afar, a circle lost among the notebook's graphs, a clearer picture of the kind of global political reform these companies here have in mind:
ResponderExcluira piece of futurology to transform Paris into a true global center under contract to the French government's planning agency, produced by a "financial programs" institution, detailing the "necessary infrastructure" if Paris is to one day truly fulfill its supposed vocation as a world center. "La nuit avait couvert la moitié de son parcours (...)"—I said. What she had received in the corporate boardrooms that afternoon was indicative of a direction that numerous transnational executives found appropriate. "As the Global Industrial System evolves, large cities denationalize and become less French, requiring a psychocultural change in image and attitude regarding the impression of xenophobia that the French seem to exude ----------------------------------
ResponderExcluir--------------------------and which is banned and repressed in official propaganda. When I finally returned to America, all I did was spend three months in Denver, contemplating the plains; the plains connected me to Nothingness for obvious reasons—a reason never more profound than the music of silence (the true inner sound of a country) as possessor of a responsibility to my own personality and thought. The night of the United States as a vehicle for the lyrical poet, for the fragmentary short story writer whose prose Proust's pace had opened—that noise heard in the void during the return flight, the views into the nothingness of the nocturnal airspace, the haunted mastery of the poem's mental energies... Reopening the notebook on dry land, I saw that the report's most radical recommendation was that Paris cease to be the capital of France. "Orléans (it said on page 223) will be the new administrative capital of the French space: the highest levels of French government will remain in Paris (the external and fiscal functions), but the administrative structure will be transferred. And the new global city would, of course, have to have all the necessary infrastructure: luxury hotels, convention centers, a media network, a world university and a financial center ----------------------------------------------
ResponderExcluir------------------------------objects that concerned us because they could be thought through and detailed to the end with the pleasure of fruition. Thus, I represented myself and enjoyed the two types of accommodations for global executives we had in mind: the first for executives interested in culture, entertainment, and urban vitality, fashion as a hobby for female executives, and other accommodations geared exclusively toward families. – A vital center of globalized financial consciousness with luxury (I said). In the unrealizable liberal ledge, talking a lot about our own lives in all the advertisements. I spoke no longer as a writer, but as an (in French) “arrangeur”: one who arranges subjects and strives to understand a historical event as it really was, through an individual philosophy that always turns to God in the end. “The event itself is the event as it would appear to God” (p. 227). When we pass a certain age (I continued), the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from which we emerged come to throw their riches and bad destinies upon us, demanding our collaboration in the new feelings we experience and in which, erasing----------------------------------
ResponderExcluir-------------------------their ancient effigy, we refound them as an original creation (nous volons dans l'espace cruel). The transcendence of consciousness consists precisely in transcending the world toward an ipseity that it desires as "in-itself"; but this "in-itself" that it projects beyond the world retains within itself the essential characteristics of consciousness. It is an in-itself that is in itself its own foundation, just as consciousness is in itself its own motivation, an in-itself that encompasses, surpasses, and retains in its flanks the facticity of the world of the "global customer"; of invention as the offspring of necessity; of the corporate jet set on the air shuttle of coordinated profit centers; of companies with a "spirit of foresight capable of capitalizing on international opportunities." – We must understand (she smiled) that cultural anthropology was an important instrument in the liberal formulation of competitive commercialization (the same habits and tastes to expand consumerism, the same spreadsheets used by Adorno to write about the Culture Industry and Hollywood films to remind us that there is an entire class above respectable parasitism), – I said.
ResponderExcluirPost script
ResponderExcluirI ate like a king at a waterfront restaurant with my last dime until I reached New Orleans and tuned into its regional radio stations in the car—not far from the jazz music playing as I smelled the great river. But once I made the decision, I regretted it and added in a postscript: "The smell of clay, petals, and molasses, as in Algiers." Reading that 403-line poem (to which seven pages of notes are added), Eliot finds a way to include quotations, allusions, or imitations from at least 35 different writers (some of whom, like Shakespeare and Dante, were called upon to contribute several times, as well as several popular songs; and to introduce passages in six or seven foreign languages, including Sanskrit). The idea of a literary miscellany was unquestionably borrowed from Pound. However, I will never forget the wild anticipation of that moment: the street with few houses, the palm trees, the imposing clouds.
ResponderExcluir------------------------- clouds late afternoon in Mississippi.
ExcluirI had made up my mind after examining the horizon around me and inspecting my possibilities—the Eliot-like residue of original invention as borrowings or adaptations from other writers—I sought at all costs to reconstruct what I remembered, and I remembered most of everything I read; my erudition had become capable of overcoming the falseness of information from within. Mysterious and macaronic erudite allusions, always accompanied by coffee as strong as petroleum. The midday meal, however, was indifferent to me; eating whole-wheat bread or salad without any bread, or fasting for a day or two; or going a night or two without sleep and then waking up in the old country house on the other side of the state. Forty hours without lying down was something no writer ex nihilo could appreciate. During breakfast, I felt like a larval psychic being, searching for a pretext for introspection in the Void—the cup of coffee and the newspaper, a poetic and fragrant cigarette. The Metal Bulletin index for 62% iron ore traded at the Chinese port of Qingdao rose 6.5% to $US92.23 per ton;
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Excluir---------------------------------It was the first time in two and a half years that the price had risen above $90, and now the accumulated gain in 2017 is 17%. On those mornings when I leafed through the newspaper in the sun, outside some bakery, my thoughts were lively and gentle; and I told myself stories that best deepened certain knowledge—if the world's largest steel producer was China, which wasn't even a market economy, I also told myself the story of the more than 700 million tons of idle capacity in the steel sector worldwide—China was responsible for 400 million: twenty billion a year in subsidies to sustain it and enable it to practice "political" prices. This last category was, in a mind prone to anecdotes like mine, quite vast. The rise of the Chinese global corporation had been triggered by the belief in the cult of greatness and the science of centralization. The ultimate success of the global Chinese shopping mall will depend on selling its ideas, and no effort will be spared to sell them: it should be noted that China is not only liquidating loans and financing against its own economy, but also carrying out the same operations externally, but as a creditor. The new strategy of financial insertion of the Chinese economy is nothing new, as is the gradual internationalization of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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-------------------------------internationalization of the yuan, which is still marginalized in global exchange market transactions. This is the essentially dramatic character of my imagination—a permanent exploration of the possibilities of modern poetic drama—we have become part of this modern business mythology (the lack of "objectivity" in certain decisions, their immanence—the growth of corporations as ideology and weapon, while continuing to approach English literature as a perfect American: with that combination of avidity and impartiality peculiar to Americans, and with a reading superior to that of the average English critic regarding the ancient and modern literatures of the Continent. I have achieved success, as few writers have achieved, in the enormously delicate task of estimating dead English writers; and English-language writers in relation to Continental writers. Sometimes an oracular economic outpouring, sometimes a linguistic object deliberately constructed to produce a certain effect!
ResponderExcluirPost script
ResponderExcluirReading that 403-line poem (to which seven pages of notes are added), Eliot finds a way to include quotations, allusions, or imitations from at least 35 different writers (some of whom, like Shakespeare and Dante, were called upon to contribute several times, as well as several popular songs; and to introduce passages in six or seven foreign languages, including Sanskrit). The idea of a literary miscellany was unquestionably borrowed from Pound. However, I will never forget the wild anticipation of that moment: the street with few houses, the palm trees, the imposing clouds------------------------- clouds late afternoon in Mississippi. I had made up my mind after examining the horizon around me and inspecting my possibilities—the Eliot-like residue of original invention as borrowings or adaptations from other writers—I sought at all costs to reconstruct what I remembered, and I remembered most of everything I read; my erudition had become capable of overcoming the falseness of information from within. Mysterious and macaronic erudite allusions, always accompanied by coffee as strong as petroleum.
ExcluirIn his book CARE OF THE SELF (volume 2 of THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY), Foucault highlights two moments of "navigation of the self" or "possession of oneself" in MARCUS AURELIUS, which seems to provide us in his writings and diaries with ANACORESIS IN THE SELF - a very common and ancient activity in Greek and Roman cultures.
ResponderExcluirAt one point, MARCUS AURELIUS writes in his diary: "...there are the meditations, the readings, the NOTES that are taken on BOOKS and that will be REREAD - a remembrance of the TRUTH or SECRET that one has already appropriated but that one should perfect with greater SELF-POSSESSION."
(Many later Pythagoreans also worked with the CONCEPT.)
And at another point, MARCUS AURELIUS seems to invest his drive for self-improvement and RECOMPACT OF HIS OWN ENERGY, his "Roman IMPECCABILITY," in a FIGHT (polemos in Greek) against most options for occupying one's vital time. He writes:
"...neither writing nor reading should take you any longer away from the DIRECT CARE you must have for your own BEING: Do not wander. You are no longer destined to REREAD YOUR NOTES
Indicating that around work or self-care, a whole machinery of WORD and WRITTEN activity interposes itself, sometimes as an efficient mechanism for ENERGY COMPACTION, sometimes as a HARMFUL ENERGY DRAIN.
Pliny also seems to be grappling with the same question when he writes in his DIARY:
ResponderExcluir"occupying oneself with oneself, indulging in reading, writing, and caring for one's health."
EPICTETUS emphasizes that the "RULES AND PRACTICES OF THE DIRECTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS... are not exactly an EXERCISE IN SOLITUDE."
What happens is that the path to ecstasy actually passes through a necessarily desert region. THE CROSSING OF THE BURNING LAND is an ancient symbol of the permanent exercise of meditation through the successive levels of CONCENTRATION that are achieved through practices until OPENING the SEA OF FIRE through the PINEAL GLAND, which, by the way, is another symbol, although the adequacy or ALIGNMENT of the expression with the extrasensory reality of the experience to which it refers is practically LITERAL.
Ebbs and flows of meditation.
ResponderExcluirThey occur due to fluctuations in the amount of pent-up, compacted, and transmuted energy.
Besides so-called sexual energy (a merely theoretical division), other forms of energy loss occur in daily life that are almost imperceptible to those not accustomed to the CULTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Internal tension and escalation occur during energetic recompression.
There are intermediate meditative regions, regions of apparitions and phantom worlds.
A spiritual conflagration so sudden that the mere idea of "substance" seems empty to those who experience it—LIVING LIGHT! QUANTUM SEA AND VOLITIONAL MOVEMENTS OF PERCEPTION WITHIN IT. A beyond for each new level of ALIGNMENT (the point where the TOLTEK RAMADAN can no longer be ABANDONED is already a SEVERE ALIGNMENT—OPEN TO THE OPEN—spaces of consciousness that are a need for spaces of consciousness).
In the overall calculation of Foucault's GATHERING of authors who dealt with SELF-CULTIVATION in the two centuries before Christ, the balance seems to tip toward those who DO NOT SEE any OBSTACLES to SELF-CULTIVATION caused by WRITING or READING—and the subject caught my attention, as I have been dealing with this LEVEL OF OSCILLATING ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION for almost thirty years.
"WRITING" is actually an activity that a Toltek can only include as a RESIDUAL TECHNIQUE in the structural and initiatory field of Meditation and Concentration as daily exercises—the flagships of the straight Toltek path!
ResponderExcluirFor a Toltek, first comes ACTIVE, CLEAN MEDITATION, MADE ONLY OF STILL BODY POSITION AND INTERNAL SILENCE AT THE VEGETATIVE LEVEL (EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SILENCE), ALWAYS EXPLORING THE DARK AND STILL WORLD OF THE BETWEEN TIMES, in which THAT GRANULAR WORLD IN WHICH THOUGHT DISSOLVES INTO ITSELF becomes the privilege of those who seek SEEING as CULTIVATION OF SELF, CULTIVATION OF ONE'S OWN CONSCIOUSNESS (as in Castaneda).
Second, for a TOLTEK extrasensory explorer of the structures of consciousness, would be "LISTENING TO MUSIC" in an occult meditation module (darkness also favors this), although there is a serious musical Adornian question to be respected when we reflect on the effect of what type of music, and what darkness, what environments can conjure the frequency capable of elevating the vibratory level of consciousness and the body, of body-consciousness (a better term).
ResponderExcluirThird, meditation during and after Chinese stretching exercises and holotropic breathing, cold showers followed by meditation or reading would come next on the scale of concentration intensity, which is what we discuss here.
Walking "meditatively breathing" on the street in inner silence, and also PERFORMING PUBLICLY, which is always a demanding exercise of concentration, requiring great care.
Thus, WRITING would rank even lower than READING AND SPEAKING, as an exercise in concentration or self-technique, direction of consciousness, self-cultivation—but the importance of the SURFACE OF INSCRIPTION AND REGISTRATION (dependent on high-level writing, dependent on evolving writing, on a certain literary or stylistic IMPROVEMENT, I would say) resides in the ability of writing to, through a LIBERATED language or tongue (let's think of Lacan's concept of LALANGUE here, of Joycean motivation), provide a certain control (one of the concerns of the Greek and Roman self-cultivators) over the images of life and their oscillations between the unconscious and the conscious, between the NAGUAL and the TONAL, respectively.
ResponderExcluirCLARITY
The meditative skills of managing blocks of perception
KRITIC POINT
There is, however, a counterpoint to be made here with Deleuze's characterization of the Stoics, for whom the Stoic exercises are more advanced than ordinary SELF-CULTIVATION, and are equivalent to a kind of ZEN DOCTRINE OF NO-MIND or TRADITION OF MAD TIBETAN SPONTANEITY in action. The Stoic exercises of concentration or illumination consist of abruptly replacing meanings with designations, demonstrations, consummations, and pure destructions—for THIS, a truly STRANGE INSPIRATION is required; it is necessary to descend into humor, often dark or corrosive, against Socratic irony and even against pre-Socratic ascetic techniques.
ResponderExcluir"Descent into the depths of bodies and the bottomlessness of their mixtures."
In *Logic of Sense*, in the nineteenth series *On Humor*, Deleuze writes, referring to the complexities of the Stoics' practices of consciousness:
ResponderExcluir"Precisely because every designation is prolonged in consummation, crushing, and destruction, without being able to STOP THIS MOVEMENT, as if the STICK broke everything it SHOWS, we see clearly that language (for the Stoics) cannot be based more on designation than on signification. That significations precipitate us into pure designations, which replace and destitute them, is the absurd as meaninglessness." But that the designations in turn precipitate themselves into the destructive and digestive depths, is THE NON-SENSE OF THE DEPTHS AS SUBSENSE OR UNTERSINN................................It is necessary that, by the same movement thanks to which language falls from above, then sinks, we are led back to the SURFACE, there where there is nothing more to designate, not even to signify, is where PURE SENSE is produced in its essential relationship with a third element, this time the NON-SENSE OF THE SURFACE. And here also what matters is to go fast, it is SPEED!
Epictetus emphasizes, in turn, that the "RULES AND PRACTICES OF THE DIRECTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS... are not exactly an EXERCISE IN SOLITUDE."
ResponderExcluirWhat happens is that the path to ecstasy actually passes through a necessarily desert region. THE CROSSING OF THE BURNING EARTH is an ancient symbol of the permanent exercise of meditation through the successive levels of CONCENTRATION that are achieved through practices until the SEA OF FIRE is OPENED through the PINEAL GLAND, which, by the way, is another symbol, although the adequacy or ALIGNMENT of the expression with the extrasensory reality of the experience to which it refers is practically LITERAL.
Ebbs and flows of meditation.
These occur due to the fluctuation of the amount of energy dammed up, compacted, and transmuted.
Besides the so-called sexual energy (a merely theoretical division), other forms of energy loss occur in daily life that are almost imperceptible to those not accustomed to the CULTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
ResponderExcluirEscalation and internal tension occur during energetic recompression.
There are intermediate meditative regions, regions of apparitions and phantom worlds.
A spiritual conflagration so sudden that the mere idea of "substance" seems empty to those who experience it—LIVING LIGHT! QUANTUM SEA AND VOLITIONAL MOVEMENTS OF PERCEPTION WITHIN IT. A beyond for each new level of ALIGNMENT (the point where TOLTEK RAMADAN can no longer be ABANDONED is already a SEVERE ALIGNMENT—OPEN TO THE OPEN—spaces of consciousness that are the need for spaces of consciousness).
Without a doubt, already leaving the sphere of DISCOURSE.
ResponderExcluirThe empty darkness of an Eastern source never having frightened.
A wonderful relaxation of worries so as to be able to meditate to the extreme of the desire of desire for the Absolute.
The empty vastness. Its plenitude and its arid mystery.
Words are obsessive.
I don't need the HELP OF PHRASES, THANK YOU,
nor their derisory vocabulary.
CONCENTRATION HERE is stable and gushing.
A percipient, volitional exhalation,
where all meaningful words seem burned, bogged down by excessive, repetitive, and almost animal (infrahuman) daily use.
SEEING is SEEING THAT which only deliberate gravity prevented from SEEING.
NIRVANA was already there; it is something of which one BECAME AWARE.
The agitation, the shell of the ENERGY EGG, where the ASSEMBLING POINT OF PERCEPTION slides, shifts, or moves in depth, producing ALIGNMENTS.
SEEING THAT WHICH IS NO MORE APPREHENSIBLE OR LESS ABRUPT THAN THE NAGUAL'S WIND.
Simplifying the matter (or reducing the TONAL, if you prefer) to a subtle, living flicker of emptiness.