I don't trust GoodReads any more . The books quotes feel like they are chosen carefully for impact. The actual book is far less crunchier.

Source - was reading quotes from  Graeber, on GR. They were fire. I have also read one book. Only fire in parts.

 NFTs was the equivalent of a few hundred men locked up in individual rooms masturbating furiously, with others taking large (very large) bets on how many children would be born as a result of this exercise

 some people have a visa to the land of Denial

this person holds a permanent residency

it would be wrong to think that the world is continuous

it's natural for us to arrange things in a line, create a spectrum, a band

and so be fooled into thinking that we can traverse this band from one end to another

but there are invisible lines in the band, which are impossible to cross

We're born

We are told continuously "don't do that"

We spend the rest of our lives trying not to do much, spending half the time finding out where the lines are, and the other half trying to balance money and meaning

We die

And unless we^^ _someone else_ performs elaborate costly ceremonies , our soul won't travel billions of miles and stand fourth in line to be reborn into this morass again, and  a bull wont bring us rice balls on the way

This is infinite something , def not wisdom

Also, the things in life that are supposed to be fun, like high points in your day or youth or life, all suck

Case in point - cities ,clubs, alcohol, marriage,job ....

steve martin in pink panther : sublime

 

 reading paul brunton's search in secret india

can't help contrasting with koestler's lotus and the robot

the former is a 'seeker', and well in the scene, 

the latter is a skeptic, who never sees beyond the walls of his own cultural thought

who would've thought

but Jinns  ?!?!?!

Again the hole in the head? In a book leading to ramana mharishi ? This is coming barely a week after i heard it in TRS (Palga Rinpoche2) , and BeerBiceps himself got started on south american shaman mushrooms, like in delanda destratified and also in  be here now (leary went and got mushrooms but alpert didnt) 

And the cover is exactly the same as the cover art for gandalf, sacred river album, which i erhm got in the avaxhome days but didnt listen to

Cant help comparing to 'my journey home', which didnt do it for me, it seemed like a designer collection of whos who on the spiritual circuit

Also, hardcore zen

Lets face it, my real calling were the posts on the ranprieur website, that rdigest piece on sudden joy a la emerson/whitman, and the infinite deviceless exploration of the kannur coast, roads etc on my red hero ranger

 it's time to put this blog to rest

 one of my goldfish died. along with the three runaway zebras, the total ups to 4 now

there's a special realm in hell reserved for those who write on A4 sheets of paper with a whiteboard marker