New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
The forest is a wonderful habitat. Recently I heard a little story about a man who whistled a melody whenever he entered the forest. After a while, the animals recognized him by it and accepted his presence. They no longer ran away, sometimes even greeted him. Most of the time we do not see the forest as it is at all, because we often disturb it. Today I was in the forest. Instead of going for a walk as usual,…
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Today I heard a quotation from Sri Aurobindo. He said, in essence, that each of us has several I’s. That was clear to me. For decades, my experience has been that the different aspects of a personality are many, and that the idea of a subjective identity is a construction. I always regarded the principles of construction as ideological, serving the logic of passports, individual responsibility, and the administration of justice, but also of guilt and atonement, the idea of…
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Mnemosyne Atlas This is a personal blog. Yet at the same time it is also about a transformation of consciousness. Consciousness does not exist singularly within human beings. It exists only in connection with other consciousness. Consciousness is communicative. A journey into consciousness is therefore always more than just a personal journey. It is a manifestation. In 2016, I traveled to India. I wanted to read Gilles Deleuze there. I had an inkling that this would open up a new…
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