today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

[Jed Kelestron]

Self awareness is a byproduct of thinking created by the ego to give rise to the illusion of a separate self distinct from the indivisible totality for the amusement of the indivisible totality. 



On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you think of self-awareness, you remove yourself from self-awareness, as self-awareness is prior to thinking.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 'Self-consciousness of the causes and limits of one's own culture
> seems to threaten the ego structure and is to be avoided"--
>                                 --M. McLuhan 1962-4
> 
> Another book important to the TRP of Gravity's Rainbow, Life Against
> Death is one of McLuhan's recommended readings.
> 
> There have been maybe 10-15 citations of Lewis Mumford, esp The City in History
>  in the first hundred pages....
> 
> and McLuhan, a Canadian and convert to Roman Catholicism actually uses
> a Pentecostal metaphor when he writes of computers being able to instantly translate
> between languages...'\"the computer, is short, promises by technology a Pentecostal
> condition of universal understanding and unity"---p. 80 Understanding Media
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit
> 
> Literate people think self awareness is a good thing.
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> On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > poke of their internalized sensual life....he argues their
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> -- 
> www.innergroovemusic.com
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