Future Hi: A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before

August 30, 2004

A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before

A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before: Thoughts on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, and Collective Consciousness.

Suddenly people were stripped before one another and behold! as we looked on, we all made a great discovery: we were beautiful. Naked and helpless and sensitive as a snake after skinning, but far more human than that shining nightmare that had stood creaking in previous parade rest. We were alive and life was us. We joined hands and danced barefoot amongst the rubble. We had been cleansed, liberated! We would never don the old armors again.

This is a new article in What is Englightenment magazine, which is one of the few magazines I purchase when it hits the shelves.

Posted by paul at August 30, 2004 09:14 AM | TrackBack

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Paul I may be missing something you see with this magazine whose editor is Andrew Cohen. However, I my gut reeling about the What is Engligthenment magazine is about "gurus."

Here is a few links about the magazine's publisher Andrew Cohen that you might want to look at:

Dougluas Ruskoff http://www.rushkoff.com/2002_09_01_archive.php#85495111

Here is a short review of a book called Englightenment Blues, a book written by a disiple of Andrew Cohen

http://www2.gol.com/users/doubtboy/enlightenmentblues.html

You also might check out my briend Joel Kramer's book, The Guru Papers

Exerpts here http://www.american-buddha.com/oneness.enlight.htm#ONENESS,%20ENLIGHTENMENT,%20AND%20THE%20MYSTICAL%20EXPERIENCE
and here http://www.american-buddha.com/recog.authorit.htm#RECOGNIZING%20AUTHORITARIAN%20CONTROL

Finally, a short bit from Timothy Leary's Changing My Mind Among Others, in his epilogue to LSD as a sacrement

Talking of the guru followers of the 60's

"We were disappointed that for every new-breed, self-confideent scientist popping up on the scene, there were 99 new cult followers. There was a gloomy period when I felt bewildered guilt for having encouraged this lemminglike rush to Eastern bonds."

My impression of Cohen is that he may fall in the category of cult leader. The magazine you endorse may be a tool to find new followers.

Some stuff on cults at http://www.freedomofmind.com/

Posted by: Bruce Eisner at September 2, 2004 09:55 PM

Thanks Bruce for the heads up. I didn't know this was a front for a cult organization. I have never been vunerable to cults, so I take for granted my automatic immunity to cultish influences.

An issue that came out a few months back was devoted entirely to crossing the bridge between science and spirituality. Although this topic has been covered a lot, this issue addressed it head on in a lot of ways I had never articulated before, so after that I have been reading it - as each issue has at least one very well written article on very relevant topics.

Posted by: Paul at September 6, 2004 01:00 PM