New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
My morning meditation is becoming a bit of a routine, although one can hardly say that after a handful of times. It's more of a stretch, a path, or an exploration. Like hiking in the mountains: with the summit in view, it's hiking through the paths, along the ridges, through the valleys and rivers, past the rock faces, [...]
Karl Marx and Charles Darwin shaped the world view of the 20th century. However, a movement emerged in India that freed itself from colonial shackles and revived the wisdom of Indian philosophy.
In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, meaning those which understand themselves as empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all conceptual frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the cornerstones of this correlation. Now the question arises: What does this correlation look like? […]
I remember always staring into the fire since I was a child. Many people do that, I think. There is something fascinating about fire. In the Vedas, Agni is the god of fire, one of the five elements alongside water, air, earth and ether. The Greeks also have these elements. I didn't realize this for a very long time [...]
When I was a teenager, I had lost my heart to someone who lived in Rome. I traveled to the Eternal City with no money, no plan, it was supposed to be a surprise. That went somewhat wrong. We ate a pizza together, otherwise I had a lot of time to myself. I spent many hours on one of the hills [...]
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