eine.
I would like to thank Sekuru Bob for the wonderful music sent to me today to hail in the new year and to push forward the agenda of freedom for Zimbabwe. You can find his work on YouTube under the name of Sekuru Bob.
two.
I think that Bataille's notion of contingency and of immanence (two very related concepts) are to be taken NOT as independent or free-standing intellectual concepts, but in more guarded neurological terms, as states of mind contextualised by the two-tiered system of the brain (with its higher and lower faculties). To spell out what I mean even more clearly: What this means is that immanence is always experienced, as it were, framed by knowledge that is already transcendent and abstract. One does not, because as a human being one cannot, actually experience "pure immanence". The latter does not exist practically, in the real world, unless the person has been rendered a vegetable.
three.
It is this doubling of consciousness -- the ability to experience two things at once -- that is shamanistic and this also relates, although in an entirely different sense, to DuBois' "double vision". The second manifestation of shamanistic doubling can still be viewed in terms of higher and lower, immediate and ego-transcendent, but it's structure is more social, rather purely psychological.
I would like to thank Sekuru Bob for the wonderful music sent to me today to hail in the new year and to push forward the agenda of freedom for Zimbabwe. You can find his work on YouTube under the name of Sekuru Bob.
two.
I think that Bataille's notion of contingency and of immanence (two very related concepts) are to be taken NOT as independent or free-standing intellectual concepts, but in more guarded neurological terms, as states of mind contextualised by the two-tiered system of the brain (with its higher and lower faculties). To spell out what I mean even more clearly: What this means is that immanence is always experienced, as it were, framed by knowledge that is already transcendent and abstract. One does not, because as a human being one cannot, actually experience "pure immanence". The latter does not exist practically, in the real world, unless the person has been rendered a vegetable.
three.
It is this doubling of consciousness -- the ability to experience two things at once -- that is shamanistic and this also relates, although in an entirely different sense, to DuBois' "double vision". The second manifestation of shamanistic doubling can still be viewed in terms of higher and lower, immediate and ego-transcendent, but it's structure is more social, rather purely psychological.
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