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Re: I am stupid about blood.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C G J : .

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The later procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

“If you can instantaneously realize the truth of nonexistence without departing from lust, hate, and ignorance, you can grasp the weapons of the Demon King and use them in an opposite way..

His brain is squirmin' like a toad

the Didion woman,” described by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times Magazine as the forlorn resident of “a clearly personal wasteland, wandering along highways or through countries in an effort to blot out the pain of consciousness.”

Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71

INTERVIEWER
You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted to ask you why.

JOAN DIDION
It’s hostile in that you’re trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It’s hostile to try to wrench around someone else’s mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”

Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll and drift away