New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
First encounters with ragas As a teenager, I listened to ragas for hours. I didn't know anything about them. I looked them up a little: Microtonality, meditation, tone sequence. That was all I understood. But it was the most profound musical experience - a meditation on music. To this day, ragas lead me into my inner self or into deep states of insight, which are not rational [...]
When the rational mind wanders through the realms of knowledge, sifts through the library, or searches for the causal laws of the universe, it is engaged in the painstaking work of constructing systems of knowledge. At first, these systems have little in common with the world of experience, let alone the inner world. It is only through contemplation that the mind pauses and contemplates the systematized, […]
What would a world without the focal point of a lens look like? Our eyes have a lens that bundles light, focusing it onto a plane so the retina can capture this focused image – a single picture. Light rays are captured by receptors and sent to the brain. This vibration of nerve cells is translated into a [...]
I have always resisted the word meditation. Much about it seemed suspect to me. However, I have always practiced my own forms of meditation without calling them that, or without having learned them. For me, meditation includes: a) contemplation, i.e., sinking into a thought [...]
Our brain is not the seat of our mind, but the medium through which we can reach the spiritual. When I first heard this many years ago at a conference on media theory, I was astonished. Did they really mean it? Is that crazy or brilliant? There is this beautiful old-fashioned word, ‚the subtle.‘ [...]
In Plato's allegory of the cave, people sit in front of a wall on which the shadows of real objects in the world can be seen. As they have only seen the shadows in their entire lives, they think that these are reality. The philosopher's task is to explain to the people that they should turn around in order to [...]
Today I dreamt that I was cutting myself off. I changed something in my life because I could no longer go along with it. My dream provided me with an image that I could easily understand. Dreams have always preoccupied me. I dream a lot, colorful dreams, whole stories, I work through situations, dream of things that I would like to [...]
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