A book by darren-allen.

Concepts

• unself

Unsels|finger-moon]] to the source of quality. What others call the no-self.

Notes from Self & Unself: A Provocation W/ Darren Allen on thestoa 2021-04-18

• literacy
  • facticity
    • thingness
    • something cause this other thing
  • this is the experience of most people
  • secondary objects are made in the mind (sound, hardness, softness, lighter, darker, etc.)
  • the primary objects
    • its properties
    • is also made by the self
  • there must be something literal in reality otherwise nothing would make sense
  • kant showed we can't learn facticity
  • The self can only experience a literal of reality??
  • thing-in-itself
  • that which the self cannot touch wich is non-literal
  • what someone really is, is completely unreachable by the self
    • the onionness of a onion
    • what is a onion beyond its secondary properties
    • you can't image an non factual onion so without its primary properties
    • if there is an unparadoxial or infinite thing about an onion the self cannot experience it
    • The Onion that can be named is not the Eternal Onion
  • all this is actually very simple and leads to a fascinating view
• There is nothing to see what is beyond the onion.
  • So if there is no reality to it why bother?
    1. The literist worldview, which is THE view currently (scientism is the most extrem version, extreme skepticisism ) a. It brings us closer to lonely and misery. It makes us trapped. i. what is the non-litery quality of things ii. that which is elusive to your programming mind
    2. It brings us closer to ignorance a. no independent access problem b. reasoning can never make arise meaning c. the insane have not lost there reason, they have lost all but reasoning d. what is the unreason assumption people have when they talk
       • Why are we even here. What is the point in this. Try that conversation in a business meeting.
       • Science just does not go there
       • The reason they don't is actually that they are ashamed.
       • You cannot proof that you exists
       • Literacy philosohpy has no interest in finding out its underlying on its own reasoning e. This is not an academic mind-game f. This is at the root of ALL our problems. g. Love is in a desperate state in this world
• Where do we find meaning if not in reasoning?
  • there is only one thing in the enirely universe with which i have access to that is my own consciousness.
    • direct access
    • no indirection
  • Now what is that which has so many names
    • If there is something non-literal then you cannot express the reality of it.
    • How can it be otherstood by us and other selfs.
    • About parasix and iternaty
      • Talking about the actual experience
      • People can get locked in literacy
        • People who are not conscious you cannot explain it. Forget it.
      • For people with a reference experience of non-literacy
        • Reason to the limit of the known
          • kant, schoppenhauen, wittgenstein
            • but that is hard work
        • You can do something
          • Practice, mediation, yoga, mindfullness
          • metaphors
            • An expression of paradox
• How can i
  • be less mediocry
  • love
  • etc.
  • If you are not restling with the above things in your life than something is up
• next meeting june 19
  • the most important questions is want is desired

Notes from Self & Unself: A Conversation W/ Darren Allen 2021-06-19

• schopenn hauer solution to evil
  • evil clearly exists if you look out at the world
    • there is suffering
  • but beyond the metaphor is IT
• things get reduced to literal fashion
• links
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Long
  • ivan-illich
  • books
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home
      • ^^^ Sci-Fi's look into a future along the lines being imagined here
    • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem_(Roman)
      • utopia
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
      • distopia
• sorting yourself out as the anigma to philosohpy
• the book is an artifact of the process of self knowledge
• the self informed self is the problem that is the ego that is the problem. not the self. the self does not have a problem with unself
  • it knows that it is an imposter
  • bullshiting itself into life
• chat
  • Empathetic means v the patriotic verse.
  • destination is overrated
  • I’m reminded of William Burroughs’ “do easy”
  • Loss of the glass wall.
  • The brain that calculates time, has a plan.
  • Tesla’s pigeon
  • can't one be with the agitation and unhapiness, much in the same way we are with nature?
  • Is professional a word for presence?
  • Pixel in a big mask is a great way to put it
  • near death experience rattles the mind.
  • Maybe mentioned on The Stoa before but Mega Churches are well positioned to take over their surrounding areas
  • Cryptocurrency offers a lot of utopian futures but they aren't necessarily realistic
  • Where’s our solarpunk romantic comedy?
  • party politics is fairly new
• if you have an up you will have a down
  • boredom will try to get an up
• questions
  • you mentioned love making as the peak of unself. can you elaborate on that.
  • why the use of the term unself instad of no-self
• if you have a sensivity to limits you have a much happier life
• autonomy/verschmelzung - self/unself
• anarchism is a move to quality and away from quantity
• non-violent-communication is just learning language