TWELVE YEARS OF CHAOS MARXISM
...contemporary life is locked into a situation in which it can only see its magicians as isolated hermits who withdraw into the cultivation of a superior ego, when in fact the visionary is nothing without the pack, truibe, or band - in a word, the collective he or she servces. The becomings-animal, -woman and -molecular undertaken by the shaman are not self-serving, but ultimately for he purpose of the healing and transformation of a social body, and of the earth itself. Contact with what I would call the "shamanic virtual" - a plane of consistency populated by ancestors, totems, and spirits - is not primarily for the ecstatic enjoyment of the visionary. In fact, it is much more like a hallucinatory illness that the shaman sustains for the sake of the people. And the joy of the shaman's song comes directly from the pain of the people.
- Joshua Ramey,
The Hermetic Deleuze (2012) p. 217
Aha. You finally read Deleuze then? I'd like to register my thanks for your twelve years of effort. You've touched more people than you might know.
ReplyDeleteI read a book about Deleuze, does that count?
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to ask him I think. Not that he was ever too precious about the way ideas are propagated. I'd really recommend his 'Practical Philosophy' on Spinoza while I'm here though.
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