7: Deep Calls to Deep

The Cartel has breached the abandon aquarium. Something incomprehensible has move in that will change their lives in the Zone forever. But what intention has intended all of this lack of intention?

Part One: Is Mystery Constitutive of the Universe?

Is whatever there is, knowable? Or does whatever we can know leave an irreducible core of mystery about the Universe? This is part one of a series on the mystery of being.

6. Deep Calls to Deep

The Cartel decides that the abandoned aquarium might be the right place to perform their mystery cult's rites.

The Dream Project

I'm working on a theory for a dream project. If we are prediction machines, then dreams are for scenario rehearsal. If we are more than this, then dreams are for something more as well.

2: Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

Are dreams for prediction machines to process information and rehearse for possible future scenarios? Or is there evidence that they may be for something more?

1. Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

The most direct road to the lost sacred is through the fucked up landscape of dreams. Shifting through this nighttime trash is to enjoy the warped detritus of the Real.

Desire is a Demon

A conversation about demonology as the study of what speaks from within me more than me that my friend James turned into a dub techno sermon.

5. Deep Calls to Deep

An exercised demon returns from the dry places with his friends to find his home cleaned and in good order.

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.

Notes

The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall

The outline that I wrote but won't read from when I lead.

Fiction

2. Deep Calls to Deep

Chapter Two: The story about how near what is far really is.

Fiction

1. Deep Calls to Deep

Chapter one: The story of what is deep within us speaking superficially about more than can be said.

Notes

Outline: The Numinous Lacan, or the Real as Marion's Counter-Experience

The outline of the presentation that I gave at the Lack conference.

Essays

Part 8: What to Do About Too Much Aboutness

Iconic representation lacks verisimilitude to present the absence of the Real.

Essays

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.

Essays

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.

Essays

Part 5: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The gap between being and knowing is imperfectly bridged by religious ritual.

Essays

Part 4: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The product of the Non-Relation is irreducible ambiguity.

Essays

Part 3:What to Do About too much Aboutness

The process of differentiation makes irreducibly ambiguous objects, but the process of identification makes equivalences by forcing difference to converge on an absent ideal form.

Essays

Part 2: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The horror of the drive is its irreducible ambiguity.

Essays

Part 1: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The oxymoron is like the unresolved double negation because they both produce irreducible ambiguity.