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“Reality and Unreality”
“Reality and Unreality” Reality or unreality – does it matter? As I sometimes mention here, Léo Bronstein was my father’s best friend and a kind of godfather to me. One of the many things he did for me – for … Continue reading →
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Tagged acupuncture, anomalies, Bellevue Hospital, childhood trauma, circus, clues, Communists, communists in the closet, decoding, delusion, detective story, detective work, discernment, dumbwaiter, eavesdropping, evidence, family, fathers, freak show, freaks, friendship, Holocaust memories, Holocaust rescue, humiliation, illusion, Léo Bronstein's Fragments of Life Metaphysics and Art, Leo Bronstein, madness, mentorship, metaphysics, midgets, musicians, mystery, New York City, New York cops, normality, past lives, paterfamilias, patriarchs, Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness, proof of insanity, reality, reality checks, refuting instance, relevant facts, Richard Firnhaber acupuncture, Russian soul, seduction, seductive genius, sensitivity, society, STD treatment, The Underground, theatrical, tragedy, unreality, Upper Bohemia, venereal disease, vulnerability
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Mystical Merging
Mystical Merging In my teen years, I used often to thumb through a book my parents owned — a collection of one-page essays about holy persons, East and West, who had managed to attain oneness with God. I forget the … Continue reading →
Posted in action, alienation, art, autonomy, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courtship, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, faith, fashion, femininity, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, life and death struggle, literature, love, master, mind control, motherhood, mysticism, ontology, peace, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, power, psychology, relationships, religion, roles, seduction, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social conventions, sociobiology, spirituality, suffering, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, time, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Advaita Vedanta, brainwashing, cads, chakras, chanting, clinging, close friends, cults, de-programming, divine Love, Don Juan, Eastern religions, energy centers, erotic desperation, fidelity, Gnosis, Gnosticism, guru, healthy relationships, holy persons, human relations, identity, Indian civilization, infidelity, insecurity syndromes, kundalini, lives of saints, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", Maya, meditation, metaphysical monism, metaphysical unreality, mystical union, neediness, paradigms, parent-child love, personhood, piety, rapture, romantic yearning, saints, Sehnsucht, The Absolute, true lovers, unhealthy relationships, unreality, world views, yentas, yoga
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