Paradise (Where is it now?)

by George Jelliss ⌂ @, Crewe, Thursday, December 31, 2009, 00:08 (5202 days ago) @ xeno6696

I was able to Listen Again to the 1:00 News this evening (it is available for 7 days). The speaker was the Pakistani author Mohanmmed Hanif who wrote a satirical novel "A Crate of Exploding Mangoes" about the death of General Zia. There is a review here from 2008:-http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-case-of-exploding-mangoes-by-mohammed-hanif-836317.html -He was describing a wall painting found in a Taleban hideout. His actaul words were: "We don't really know if the heaven of their dreams really exists". To me this just shows how even the most intelligent people just cannot escape childhood indoctrination.-
On another matter entirely:-Matt/xeno writes: "If you ever studied Western Hermeticism, you also realize that "magic" as it is often put is an attempt to recreate an exact emotional state for another person. These are the kinds of things that for obvious reasons--materialism doesn't handle very well, because they are all arts, and not sciences."-Strangely enough I have studied Hermeticism to some extent. By coincidence I happened to be looking into "The White Goddess" by Robert Graves today, and in a discussion about the Unicorn and the White Hart (which are said by Hermetics to symbolise spirit and soul) I came across this statement: "The Hermetics were neo-Platonists who patched their philosophic cloaks with shreds of half-forgotten bardic lore."-Not relevant to the discussion perhaps, but such coincidences amuse me.

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GPJ


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