" ...the reason this movement has been so so hard to understand is that “understanding” itself, static intellect, was it’s enemy. The culture-bearing book of the period, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was a running lecture against intellect. ...Oriental religions such as Zen and Vedanta that promised release from the prison of intellect were taken up as gospel. ... Degeneracy was practiced for degeneracy’s sake. Anything was good that shook off paralyzing intellectual grip of the social-intellectual Establishment."
The Hippies have been interpreted as frivolous spoiled children, and their period following their departure as “a return to values,” whatever that means. The Metaphysics of Quality, however, says that’s backward: The Hippie revolution was the moral movement. The present period is the collapse of values. The Hippie revolution of the sixties was a moral revolution against both society and intellectuality. It was a whole new social phenomenon no intellectual had predicted and no intellectuals were able to explain. It was a revolution by children of well-to-do, college-educated, “modern” people of the world who suddenly turned upon their parents and their schools and their societies with a hatred no one could have believed existed. This was not any new paradise the intellectuals of the twentieth society were trying to achieve by freedom from Victorian restraints. This was something else that had blown up in their faces. Pheudrus thought the reason this movement has been so so hard to understand is that “understanding” itself, static intellect, was it’s enemy. The culture-bearing book of the period, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was a running lecture against intellect. “.....All my New York friends were in the negative nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tirish bookish political or psychoanalytic reasons,” Kerouac wrote, “but Dean” (the hero of the book)” just raced in society eager for bread and love; he didn’t care one way or the other.” In the twenties it had been thought that society was the cause of man’s unhappiness and that the intellect would cure it, but in the sixties it was thought that both society and intellect together were the chouse of all the unhappiness and that transcendence of both society and intellect would cure it. Whatever the intellectuals of the twenties had fought to create, the flower children of the sixties fought to destroy. Contempt for rules, for material possessions, for war, for technology were standard repertoire. The “blowing of the mind" was important. Drugs that destroyed one’s ability to reason were almost a sacrament. Oriental religions such as Zen and Vedanta that promised release from the prison of intellect were taken up as gospel. The cultural values of blacks and Indians, to the extent that they were anti-intellectual, were mimicked. Anarchy became the most popular politics and squalor and poverty and chaos became the most popular life-styles. Degeneracy was practiced for degeneracy’s sake. Anything was good that shook off paralyzing intellectual grip of the social-intellectual Establishment. > Scripture of the Golden Eternity > > Jack Kerouac > > > 1 > > Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception > in my mind I wouldnt have said "Sky"-That is why I am the golden eternity. > There > > are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one, one golden eternity, > One-Which-It-Is, That-Which- Everything-Is. > > 2 > > The awakened Buddha to show the way, the chosen Messiah to die in the > degradation of sentience, is the golden eternity. One that is what is, the > golden eternity, or, God, or, Tathagata-the name. The Named One. The human > God. Sentient Godhood. Animate Divine. The Deified One. The Verified One. The > Free One. The Liberator. The Still One. The settled One. The Established One. > Golden Eternity. All is Well. The Empty One. The Ready One. The Quitter. The > Sitter. The Justified One. The Happy One. > > 3 > > That sky, if it was anything other than an illusion of my mortal mind I > wouldnt have said "that sky." Thus I made that sky, I am the golden eternity. > I am Mortal Golden Eternity. > > 4 > > I was awakened to show the way, chosen to die in the degradation of life, > because I am Mortal Golden Eternity. > > 5 > > I am the golden eternity in mortal animate form. > > 6 > > Strictly speaking, there is no me, because all is emptiness. I am empty, I am > non-existent. All is bliss. > > 7 > > This truth law has no more reality than the world. > > 8 > > You are the golden eternity because there is no me and no you, only one > golden eternity. > > 9 > > The Realizer. Entertain no imaginations whatever, for the thing is a > no-thing. Knowing this then is Human Godhood. > > 10 > > This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the > same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is. > > 11 > > If we were not all the golden eternity we wouldnt be here. Because we are > here we cant help being pure. To tell man to be pure on account of the > punishing angel that punishes the bad and the rewarding angel that rewards > the good would be like telling the water "Be Wet"-Never the less, all things > depend on supreme reality, which is already established as the record of > Karma earned-fate. > > 12 > > God is not outside us but is just us, the living and the dead, the > never-lived and never-died. That we should learn it only now, is supreme > reality, it was written a long time ago in the archives of universal mind, it > is already done, there's no more to do. > > 13 > > This is the knowledge that sees the golden eternity in all things, which is > us, you, me, and which is no longer us, you, me. > > 14 > > What name shall we give it which hath no name, the common eternal matter of > the mind? If we were to call it essence, some might think it meant perfume, > or gold, or honey. It is not even mind. It is not even discussible, groupable > into words; it is not even endless, in fact it is not even mysterious or > inscrutably inexplicable; it is what is; it is that; it is this. We could > easily call the golden eternity "This." But "what's in a name?" asked > Shakespeare. The golden eternity by another name would be as sweet. A > Tathagata, a God, a Buddha by another name, an Allah, a Sri Krishna, a > Coyote, a Brahma, a Mazda, a Messiah, an Amida, an Aremedeia, a Maitreya, a > Palalakonuh, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 would be as sweet. The golden eternity is X, the > golden eternity is A, the golden eternity is /\, the golden eternity is O, > the golden eternity is [ ], the golden eternity is t-h-e-g-o-l-d-e-n-e-t-e-r- > n-i-t-y. In the beginning was the word; before the beginning, in the > beginningless infinite nev > erendingness, was the essence. Both the word "god" and the essence of the > word, are emptiness. The form of emptiness which is emptiness having taken > the form of form, is what you see and hear and feel right now, and what you > taste and smell and think as you read this. Wait awhile, close your eyes, let > your breathing stop three seconds or so, listen to the inside silence in the > womb of the world, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, re-recognize the bliss > you forgot, the emptiness and essence and ecstasy of ever having been and > ever to be the golden eternity. This is the lesson you forgot. > > 15 > > The lesson was taught long ago in the other world systems that have naturally > changed into the empty and awake, and are here now smiling in our smile and > scowling in our scowl. It is only like the golden eternity pretending to be > smiling and scowling to itself; like a ripple on the smooth ocean of knowing. > The fate of humanity is to vanish into the golden eternity, return pouring > into its hands which are not hands. The navel shall receive, invert, and take > back what'd issued forth; the ring of flesh shall close; the personalities of > long dead heroes are blank dirt. > > > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
