I feel like it’s more about a between than a beyond. No one person or perspective or way of thinking can fully encompass or articulate this thing. So a spiritual insight can come through falling through the cracks, collapse and confusion, as well as soaring above or comprehension. If this sounds like total wank it’s because I’ve had a bottle of red wine
Yeah I tend to think of the magic space as being a between certainly. Mr Tea is a proper physicist and he hates it when people misuse this stuff, but I like winding him up, so I will say it is like the moment of quantum indeterminacy. Not yet this or that.
The internet, I reckon.
Surface, ego, distraction, gloss.
The internet, I reckon.
Surface, ego, distraction, gloss.
Oh and gak. For the same reasons
The spiritual life, if I can get away with using such a grand term, does come with a whole set of its own dangers. You can crash, and very, very badly. You can end up in in-between worlds, sinister and frightening worlds, and it can take quite a long time to extricate yourself.
You can feel as if you have entered a reward and punishment system that feels like it belongs to another century. It can foster paranoia. You could end up wearing a hair shirt or walking on your knees through broken glass, begging for forgiveness.
Fried discussed the oceanic mostly to say he'd never had it and didn't think it was a strong enough impulse for a religion to have congealed around it!