- Religions and Spirits10 min
The Wandering Sufi
Into the Mystic with Peter Lamborn WilsonInto the Mystic with Peter Lamborn Wilson
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has... - Quotes
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But what if the medium is the message?
But what if the medium is the message?
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has... - Quotes
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Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has... - Quotes
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There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has... - Quotes
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It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has... - Quotes
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“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...