New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Fate, karma, causality, laws of nature, determinism - these are all different expressions of the idea that the universe follows a predictable logic. They imply that what has happened has arisen logically from what has gone before and that the present is also determined by what has gone before. We consider this logic to be reasonable and rational, logically correct. However, if we assume [...]
I have been living with a neurotic dog for a few weeks now. She barked a lot while she still perceived me as a stranger. She kept her distance and was frightened. After a few weeks, she accepted me, approached me and wanted to be stroked. Now she lies at my door and keeps watch; she protects me. What happened? I [...]
I am slowly penetrating a little deeper into the superficiality. Concepts that I have absorbed from different knowledge systems such as the Vedas, Agamas, Shastras are slowly connecting. I see rough root systems. For example, how the 5 elements (water, fire, earth, ether and air) as a starting point in the teachings of the Vedas develop further in Vastu or Ayurveda, i.e. in [...].
Yesterday, during a panel discussion at the India Art Fair, I heard someone quoting Plato. She said that Plato said that art is the reflection of the reflection of the real. Whether this is true in this abbreviated form remains to be seen. It is an interesting thought. What is the real, what is a reflection, what is art? For Plato there is [...]
Ich bin fasziniert von der Synchronitaeten hier in Auroville. Die gedanklichen, gesitigen, spirituelle, physischen und emotionalen Raeume die sich hier verschraeneken tun dies oft ueber mehrere Tage scheinbar unbeschwehrlich, intuitiv, leicht. Ich war erschoepft. Ein Freund hatte seinen Koerper verlassen, wie man hier sagt. Die Community hatte ueber einen Monat Unterstuetzung geleistet, viele sind zusammengewachsen. […]
Yesterday I had a long conversation about the origin of thought. Which comes first, the words or the thoughts. There are of course very different forms of thinking. Visual, musical, analytical, synthetic, performative thinking, etc... There is thinking on the level of intuition, there is thinking in memory, there is vision [...]
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Es ist so wunderschön und auch so traurig in einer Welt zu leben, die den Westen als fremd versteht. Ich nehme diese Perspektive immer mehr ein und verstehe vieles nicht mehr. Die Obsession mit Karriere, Bequemlichkeit, Sicherheit, Wohlstand, Genauigkeit, Richtigkeit, Besserwisserei und Überheblichkeit, Ignoranz und Intoleranz. All das wird mit deutlicher, es wird geradezu evident. […]
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