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rené daumal (radio portrait)

Follow the link below to a fantastic radio emission about René Daumal. René Daumal (radio portrait) in French And here BLACK POETRY / WHITE POETRY published online (in English).

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elementary chains of experience

I just happened across this amazing archive of Françoise Duvivier’s – METRO RIQUET while in search for this seminal quote: This quote has resonated with me from the moment I read it – and sometimes I need to re-evoke the same sentiment as I get older. It seems that, over the years, and under the [...]

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the lie of the truth and other parables…

…actually that is a publication from rene daumal. (reference: ISBN 0937815276 Publisher: Hanuman Books, 1989 – The Lie of the Truth and Other Parables from the Way of Liberation (Hanuman Books)) but regarding the current item of news – money – here is a small explaination that arrived in my mailbox from my friend in [...]

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phenomnea & noumenea

When I was in Bombay, January 2008, I had the opportunity to meet Ramesh Balsekar. It was quite a unexpected occurrence and it lead me to look into his books such as ‘A Personal Religion of your Own’ and ‘Let Life Flow’. Normally I am not at all into pop psychology, which I feared this [...]

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the century of the self

This BBC documentary is very powerful – I highly recommend having a look at it. “This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.” – Adam Curtis The Century of the Self – by Adam Curtis Part 1 – [...]

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an avant-guard hillbilly?

An enigmatic character – who I know best because of his wonderful recordings on Locus Music. This site is a collection of his writings. And here is something I stumbled upon on YouTube:

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the wise gentleman

Here is the link out to the Alan Watts website. I have enjoyed rediscovering his lectures during my travels in the last years. I think he is nearly a lost species of people – the wise gentleman. People sometimes associate him to ‘pop-spirituality’ but i think what he has to say has equal power now [...]

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