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Ego death and transcendent
knowledge in movies/tv
Amazon Egodeath Listmania list of
recommended books
Matrix 2
alternates between hyperactivity and metaphysical monologues. I would like a transcription of the
metaphysical monologues.
>>I
notice that you focus on written materials and song lyrics a great deal.
I believe
texts and lyrics are efficient, and movies less efficient. I don't have an elaborate theory of
this. I assume that the mystery
religion rituals were efficient. Your
category of "texts" is misleading -- 'texts' also includes visual art
and graphical symbolism.
Moving
pictures have some potential, but it's rarely played out. The Disney movie The Bear shows an amanita
trip scene.
http://www.google.com/search?q=movie+%22the+bear%22+amanita
Shallow
visuals take over too often in portrayals.
Hunter
Thompson's Las Vegas film has a second or two of undulating carpet that's
interesting.
In Greek
banquets, they used neither text nor moving pictures, but pictures on the
vessels and music with lyrics.
Movies is
one medium I guarantee to leave available for other researchers to fill into
the paradigm I'm defining. I don't like
tv or movies -- compared to books. I
enjoy such moving pictures once in a great while. With books, I always skim and scan -- movies don't give me that
freedom, and I have no patience to wait for the good parts. I am incapable of reading a book from front
to back. I entirely use a random-access
skim and scan method, even when I'm committed to reading a particular entire
book.
My list of
recommended books is highly prominent at Amazon. It comes up surprisingly often when looking through religion or
entheogen books.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2GX5SWVMPC62A/ref=cm_mpemr_lm/
Direct
link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1KXIDK6C48T7N
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appears broken onto two lines, patch the two lines into one in a text editor.
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>So
you'd like to ... Experience ego death and understand it
>rationally"
>Can
someone recommend a book list for me to start reading about ego
>death?
See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/1416
>From:
Michael Hoffman
>Sent:
Friday, March 14, 2003 10:52 PM
>To:
Egodeath Group
>Subject:
[egodeath] Recommended books
Add:
Luther
Martin's book Hellenistic Religions, which shows that their common core engine,
the underlying single religion, was grappling with and relating to cosmic
determinism.
As in my
biggest Amazon book list, it's best to think of areas.
So you'd
like to ... Experience ego death and understand it rationally
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1KXIDK6C48T7N
Read
several of the best books in each of the following areas:
o Determinism, especially atemporal timeless
block-universe determinism rather than too-familiar causal-chain determinism,
which is too shot through with egoic ways of thinking.
o Entheogens, particularly at the start of the
major religions, but also during the later developmental phase.
o Mythic thinking, allegory,
double-entendre. Ruck is admirable for
writing about entheogens, integrated into Greek myth -- but he's oblivious to
the metaphysics of no-free-will. He recognizes
the means -- visionary plants -- but not the philosophical content or insights
about time, space, will, and control which the plants bring.
o No-historical Jesus, to clear the way for
clear mythic decoding. Doherty's Jesus
Puzzle. The Jesus Mysteries together
with Jesus and the Goddess (the authors assert no-free-will and have written
respectfully about entheogens). See the
previous posting for more titles.
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