New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
It is now definitely time to rethink. What our fathers and grandfathers called progress is destroying our planet. Science is not an end in itself, not everything technically possible is good, not everything that is fun and satisfies our senses is meaningful. Now we hear again and again from many sides that we should concentrate on the small steps in front of us; only in this way would we move forward together. This may occasionally be right too, but it…
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Many partnerships around me are undergoing a stress test at the moment. The word midlife crisis often comes up. A stupid word, I think, since it suggests that life, individual life, has a crisis. This perspective unsettles me. Why should life have a crisis? It seems rather that partnerships are being called into question. A breaking out, a drive for freedom, self-realization, wanting to make up for something. This too is a notion that unsettles. Was the past wrong? That…
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I am undergoing a metamorphosis. Recently, at a gathering, someone said this was a wonderful group of caterpillars. I paused. He said, yes… soon these will be butterflies. A friend once said that metamorphosis was a proof of God’s existence. How else could one explain a butterfly arising from a caterpillar through purely evolutionary steps? Can such a leap in complexity be grasped in evolutionary terms at all? I am not a biologist, and it interested me only as a…
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