Melancholy Madness and Tongues of Fire

[David Morris]

Nicely put.

On Monday, August 19, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> Yes these people were and are human but there is a real danger of reducing
> something powerful and larger than human to something we can conveniently
> dismiss as "emotional" or a variety of religious experience.  It fails to
> acknowledge the power of the actual phenomenon.  If Fox  or Siddhartha
> Gautama or Crazy Horse or St Francis or John Muir were only nutty or
> schizophrenic it seems doubtful they would have had such distinct
> transformative roles in history or even been distinguished at all from
> other forgotten and nameless crazies.
>
> These people almost all gain a new language, tongues of fire rooted in a
> new experience of the universe. The next breath becomes possible.
> The empire seeks  to codify the inner language of the universe to build
> its mighty tower of control but all the time there is a movement of equal
> force toward the breakdown of pseudo- meaning, meaning  lost in the machine
> gun fire of hypocrisy into babble, babel, blah bull, bullets of   bbbbbile,
> and bubbles of poison gas. Tongues of a new fire catch, Suddenly Buddha
> Holy and Joni Donne are singing Rave On  and Rock and Roll is here to stay.
> Is the universe talking to us? Fucking everything is talking in the land of
> beating tom tom pounding skin and notes bent by breath and gut. Are them
> holy ghosts friendly?  All I can say is listen. Just quiet down the babel
> and listen down where the river is rounding the bend, down where the cool
> silky wetness is sinking into sweet black earth, down where the buried
> seeds are wresling open their hungry memory and singing about their longing
> for the sky.
>
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2013, at 2:40 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
> > I think so. And Mencken with his monkey, a hotdog to feed his belly's
> sake, a bible to wipe the juice from his grinning puss, inherited some of
> that Puritan wind though his soul less bent to serve there with.
> >
> > On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:
> > Founders of religions, denominations, sects and cults ... Many if not
> all were prone to stormy emotionality - might even be part of the
> package...Luther, constantly confessing, right?  All those prophets,
> Ezekiel et dung as Blake sez, even Jesus was prone to outbursts, divine
> discontent with the status quo is a driver of fervor, fervor is a tool for
> connecting
> >
>
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