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If you believe knowledge is power, which I certainly do, then the Internet is the Dispensation, you know, the angels have landed... Now lets see if information can liberate. That's why I don't want to do something stupid like die and miss the whole unfoldment of this proposition that knowledge is power, information will liberate. And it will be settled in the next 10 or 15 years. Either they'll get a handle on it —whoever "they" are, whatever a "handle" means— or it will slip from their control and it will be clear that some kind of dialogue is now going on between individual human beings and the sum-total of human knowledge and that nothing can stop it, that some kind of renaissance, some kind of total new relationship to knowledge and possibility is put in place.

—Terence McKenna
Final Interview, November 1999
[ mp3 | text ]

this is the thing: Our psychedelic eyeballs are not
rose-colored, if anything they have been, to some
extent at least, cleared of many such tarnishing
sentiments, media manipulations, consumer
compulsions, vacuous hallmark aphorisms and wal-
mart smileys. This is a cursory, perhaps peculiarly
'western' form of the "heightened awareness"
buddhists speak so much about. And this relative
clarity of consciousness allows us to take the long
view. It also allows us to recognize the dirt and
stupid without dwelling on it or letting it get us
down... Action is not disenchantment or cynicism,
but an action of thinking may begin there. As we
develop in an action of sustained critical awareness,
the flatland of parking lots and television no longer
sets us adrift, but instead buoys us up, full of life
and edging a little more towards freedom.
(excerpt from) Notes from the Far Field 

Erik Drooker: Terminal City

Fudo (Fudo-Myo-o) is the Japanese incarnation of the Buddhist deity Acala, "The Immovable One," the destroyer of delusion and the protector of wisdom teachings.

Fudo is the central deity of the Great Myo-o, the Japanese term for the Sanskrit Vidyaraja, a group of wrathful, warlike deities known in English as the Wisdom Kings.

In contrast to the saintly images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, images of the Myo-o are ferocious and menacing; their threatening postures and contorted grimaces are expressions of the force with which they strive to dispell ignorance and strengthen the will of those who seek liberation. They are often depicted engulfed in flames, representing the purification of the mind by the burning away of all attachment and shadow.

The Myo-o carry vicious weapons to protect practitioners and destroy corrupting influences. Fudo is armed with a rope for capturing and binding demons in his left hand, and a sword of wisdom for subduing demons and cutting through ignorance in his right. From his mouth protrude two fangs, one pointing down, representing his compassion and concern for suffering beings; and one pointing upward, representing his passion for wisdom in transcendence. Centered within, Fudo embodies the seed of awakening.

Fudo expresses the ability to transform the heat of anger into the energies of excellence, an attribute that makes him immovable in his commitment to aiding all beings on the path to self-control and liberation.

Like other commodities, "identity" in our culture is easy
to buy into. Wherever you look there is a lifestyle-
formula pre-packaged and ready for your consumption.
More subtly, because consumer culture has shifted from
selling products to selling image, most of our information
channels —from advertising-saturated media to the
endless repetition of hollywood conventions— have
become a homogenous conduit for a certain narrow view
of reality and identity. Consumer culture not only
defines what it means to be cool but also what it means
to be real—even though most of what is presented is
hopelessly fake. Our concepts of beauty, success, value,
sexuality, etc., are all sculpted to re-enforce the self-
importance & conforming malaise that drives purchase...
But we can begin with this: "I am not a Target Market."
(excerpt from) Notes from the Far Field 

The idea of identity must be replaced with the idea of identification ... The idea of 'pure' identity is fascist. If you seek your identity then you have to separate yourself from others. Whereas replacing identity with identification will mean that your identity now is complex, is multiple, and you discover your human nature through the Other.

—Elias Khoury
Bookworm Interview, June 2006
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