Sunday, May 31, 2009

Thought of the Day: Why Go Alone?

I have many thoughts on the nature of my life and experiences, but I often feel I lack the frame work or credibility to voice them. Because an experience or idea is something personal, and not necessarily shared I often feel that mine lack the validity to be voiced as truth. Of course if I go back to my second post I've already acknowledged that doubt as silly. Truth, no matter where or when it is experienced is still truth. My truth is no less strong for the fact that it is only mine.

Still the desire for validity remains and I find myself thinking, why reinvent the wheel? I've done it before, with the most notable being the discovery of Jung's archetypes about five years before discovering Jung. This time I don't feel like turning off the road into the tall grass. This time I'm going to read a little. Let's see where Philosophy for Dummies can get me. Also Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Practical Kabbalah by Rabbi Laibl Wolf, The Kabbalistic Tradition edited by Alan Unterman, and the Cryptonimicon by Niel Stephenson. The last is due to using up my current vein of escapist mindrot.

Hopefully these will help give me some basis to start from, though where to start in that pile is the question...

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