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    Athens and Jerusalem, Is it "All Just a Dream"? The Goal of Poetry, How and Why We Should Act
    Athens and Jerusalem, Is it "All Just a Dream"? The Goal of Poetry, How and Why We Should Act
    Athens and Jerusalem, Is it "All Just a Dream"? The Goal of Poetry, How and Why We Should Act
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    Athens and Jerusalem, Is it "All Just a Dream"? The Goal of Poetry, How and Why We Should Act

    By Nepomuk Onderdonk

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    I've been reading Adam Zagajewski, Czesław Miłosz, and Zbignew Herbert - a few of philosopher poets working on some interesting questions. Also I'm reading a new book on Huichol shamanism called "The Shaman's Mirror" that gets pretty deep into some interesting questions as well; this is a short essay on some preliminary ideas in response; "Athens and Jerusalem" refers to reconciling Reason and Western religion, "Is it all just a dream?" is just a common objection or question I hear, Another one of the questions the philosopher poets were addressing was the "great boredom of our times, the Sunday afternoon boredom"; I rode a bus for 20 minutes to a mountain hike yesterday - Sunday afternoon - through some of the most beautiful hills and trees and blue sky in the world, in Bay Area California, and I was the only one looking, the other four people in front of me stared down at the floor of the bus, looking depressed and dejected, "bored", except for the several times they pulled out iPhones to click and swipe a little, and smile, then put it back in their pocket and look dejected again, The Facebook clicks fed them just a few drops, in the ego desert they confine themselves to, while they ignore the divinity all around us, taught, I guess, that you are all about ego, a yang-less yin monster, the beauty out there mocks you, threatens you, and you better hope something pops up on Facebook to help you face this heavy external monster weighing on you called the natural world. So this is a short essay to say, divinity is everywhere, and ego is silly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNepomuk Onderdonk
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781310494215
    Athens and Jerusalem, Is it "All Just a Dream"? The Goal of Poetry, How and Why We Should Act
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    Nepomuk Onderdonk

    I am a tiger who escaped from the circus - (escaped from consensual reality) - but got lonely, and returned to the circus with the powers that come from being free to leave. These powers are considered "schizophrenia" in western science, or "shamanism" in my native Aztec culture. There is a fine line dividing sz and shamanism, though, as I see it: the dreamer must control the dream, not the dream the dreamer. And I don't take meds, but I did take seroquel for 4 months, at 600mg a day, way too much, and quit cold turkey, ahd a bad 8-day experience, and I don't mess with that stuff anymore. I don't believe in gravity - I live in a non-ordinary unvierse model. And I am the leader of all matter and energy in the war against time. Abducted by aliens because I asked them to tell me a story, monsters come drawing paradise screens on the air; they were out fishing anyway and I just swam up to the hook. lightning justified, release unknown....

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