/lit/ - Literature

Redpill me on this book.

OK, I admit it. You guys caught me. I’m a little fucked in the head.

You know, Hakim Bey, modern anarchist mystic who was influenced by Sufism and shamanism, wrote a book called the Temporary Autonomous Zone worth reading. It’s about the creation of something like “sacred” places outside the boundaries of social norms, school, work, etc. Of course, in both this and his other book “Immediatism,” he stresses that this would, ideally, be a physical meeting between people. He even warns about the danger of becoming “cyber-zombies”, addicted to shallow Internet socializing. Anyway, that aside, this itself here is something of a temporary autonomous zone, outside the boundaries of the narrowmindedness of religious followers and priests, academic philosophers, politicians, and, of course, your boss. What do you think?

Hakim Bey also talks about something he calls “poetic terrorism.” This is the art of making life beautiful, strange, and interesting, even at the risk of offending others and appearing insane. He draws on Dada and situationism to develop this.

You know, in RAW’s aforementioned book “Cosmic Trigger I,” he coins the term “mindfuck,” which can be caused by learning lots of tremendously unusual knowledge (such of the world’s different religious and mystical traditions, or of possibly true political conspiracies, etc.) RAW claimed he was deliberately trying to mindfuck himself, drive himself insane by researching the strangest topics (including Illuminati conspiracy theories and aliens), believing in them, practicing them, etc. It’s not like mindfucking people could cause their idiotic brain to temporarily be silent and allow them to experience enlightenment and access supracognitive faculties, is it?

It’s not like Zen masters ever mindfucked their disciples until they became enlightened, is it?

It’s not like you should now be in an state of experimental uncertainty, not fully trusting me about everything but inspired to do your own research and also visit absolutoracle.com and investigate it, is it?

Some idiot is now staring into space about that comment I made about some readers telepathically talking with me. Instead of just sitting there like a tense stressed-out blank-minded idiot staring into space uncomfortably, he should just go ahead and telepathically communicate with me.

Anyway....

Does anyone have some more crazy, wacked the fuck out conspiracy shit like this? Please don't recommend the Illuminatus! trilogy. I've already read and loved that.