Love and Freedom
I sent out a text message to my men's spirituality group that I wanted to revise to make the connection not only between love and freedom, but also to non-attachment as the violence of love. Here it is.
4. Deep Calls to Deep
The story of how a traditional mother cast out some demons.
Why Start a Demonology Club?
James R. said to me, "Did you know that 'True Detective' pulls from two books, Eugene Thacker's 'In the Dust of This Planet' and Thomas Ligotti's 'Conspiracy Against the Human Race'?"
3. Deep Calls to Deep
Chapter Three: The story of how the pervert's flag disavows his castration.
The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall
The outline that I wrote but won't read from when I lead.
2. Deep Calls to Deep
Chapter Two: The story about how near what is far really is.
1. Deep Calls to Deep
Chapter one: The story of what is deep within us speaking superficially about more than can be said.
Outline: The Numinous Lacan, or the Real as Marion's Counter-Experience
The outline of the presentation that I gave at the Lack conference.
Part 8: What to Do About Too Much Aboutness
Iconic representation lacks verisimilitude to present the absence of the Real.
Part 7: What to Do About too much Aboutness
Symbolic incursion into the Real is eternal because of the Real's absolute withdrawal from the Symbolic.
Part 6: What to Do About too much Aboutness
Love makes a clearing for the irreducible ambiguity of the Other, both the Other within and without.
Part 5: What to Do About too much Aboutness
The gap between being and knowing is imperfectly bridged by religious ritual.