/lit/ - Literature

>>11073766
Peterson fits the same niche as any figure in that role ever has, he just does it very fucking poorly and with such popularity because of his narrative and the utter lack in recent years of anyone else doing so. People don't want or even understand when someone like Wilber or Campbell does it because they do it so much better than Peterson and his stupid lobster analogy. Reading Campbell or Wilber won't give you the little ribbon-laced sense of pseudo-realization that Peterson does so much as just slap you wide awake and then tell you to go about making that second cup of coffee
Colin Wilson's 'The Outsider' among countless others attempts just what Peterson is after, a new "religion" for man in which his modern conception of the world can be affixed to the objective-rooting nature of the past that we lost sometime after the Thirty Years War and the backlash of "scientific metaphysics" that Kant enthroned in the western canon. That's why we're haunted by the ghosts of Marx and co. - because they tore off the curtains from the window of man's soul and have forced him to reconcile his humanness with nature's wellspring once again. The Greeks had their efforts, the Romans theirs, but sometime in-between with the Christians pulling us into the mud with their 'original sin' bullshit we fell from the ladder of gnosis that we'd been climbing since prehistory. The dichotomy of man and nature can't be "resolved" once-and-for-all and until we all learn that we're going to be stuck spinning our wheels in this muck of a worldview in which we're special creations of the universe but also nothing but its bastard children that it wants nothing to do with

>>10983172
>Gnostic media: Engineering the Deadhead
>those citations
>the implications

what the FUCK anon. what is this site?
Look I'm not one for conspiracies, I've had my fair share of trips on shrooms over the years, and I've read McKenna's books, but THAT is some fucked up shit. I remember reading about Terence's timewave theory and while I still think it's largely bullshit and a bad attempt at world-philosophizing (like some of his stuff on hermeticism) I think we can all agree post-2012 shits been getting weirder. As a history major I have no own ridiculous thoughts like McKenna on 'time waves' like history repeating itself but FUCK man, that theory is too much. I've read elsewhere about the CIA co-opting post-war French philosophy to fight the social wars of the 60's and shit
>mfw the dots start coming together

>say something really mean to my girl
>she gets mad and we don't talk for a couple days
>make my way to her house with flowers and an apology, stressed and suffering from nicotine withdrawal
>hang out, give her flowers, end up in her room after some conversation, have headache
>she initiates sex
>due to headache and general guilty feeling can't get into it, don't enjoy myself
>say I don't feel comfortable continuing
>go home
>don't talk for a week
>make tentative plans for a visit
>she doesn't get back to me on the time
>o-oh

>>6573023
>>6573077
Oh ffs this is what I get for being cocky and not reading the thread first.

>>4698704

>Neil Strauss

By lumping this lispy twatwaffle in with talented writers, you've sufficiently rustled my jimmies, so...good work?