There is also the layering of paradoxes: I've always felt that Bob Marley has produced some of the most spiritual music ever produced.
Big Tree, Small Ax, Mr. Brown you may know the stuff.. The religious tradition this comes out of is a mutation of Judaism. In the field though. Rastafarians are rabidly anti-gay. It's always something. Is there some structural reason why minds can't be flooded with complete understanding? This is why I raise the issue of the Contraries, or a kind of "dialectical pluralism." Blake actually provides two models of this kind of dialogue in _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_. The first insists on the structural necessity of the "contraries" that can never be reconciled, and whose conflict is necessary to the "progression" of human existence: "these two classes of men are always upon the earth, and they should be enemies; whoever tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence." The second model is one of conversion, in which the angel becomes a devil, and agrees to read the bible "in its infernal or diabolical sense." If one uses the second sense to study the first, we make both our love and hatred of "mere images" contraries in a dialectic of iconology. Now this is the rub. How willing are we to concede that life is a "mere image." In every succeeding generation of technical innovation both positive and negative, this idea is becoming more and more the "objet petit a," to use the Lacanian term of our distress, a kind of purely paradoxical engine, a new monster, the new minotaur that we have given birth to in the labyrinth of Techne'..
