Comments on: Podcast 17: And I’ll Form The Head! http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: This one is shooting skywards! - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-32384 This one is shooting skywards! - Pop Occulture Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:47:27 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-32384 [...] Saddam’s half-brother decaptitated in hanging. 37-year-old a suspect in the decapitation of 4-year-old daughter. Off with his head! Have you been following that thread? Dummies may like it by enthusiasm, by default. Ago, girl ago. Psychic hotline. Skype and Netflix unveil new online video services. Load up those Tubes and let’s go surfing in our Burkinis in Australia. What’s going to happen in Australia this year? Been hearing lots of strange news out of that place. Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over. Saturn vs. Earth in war as you’ve never seen it! [...] [...] Saddam’s half-brother decaptitated in hanging. 37-year-old a suspect in the decapitation of 4-year-old daughter. Off with his head! Have you been following that thread? Dummies may like it by enthusiasm, by default. Ago, girl ago. Psychic hotline. Skype and Netflix unveil new online video services. Load up those Tubes and let’s go surfing in our Burkinis in Australia. What’s going to happen in Australia this year? Been hearing lots of strange news out of that place. Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over. Saturn vs. Earth in war as you’ve never seen it! [...]

]]> By: Paul Westerberg’s Left Hand - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-30175 Paul Westerberg’s Left Hand - Pop Occulture Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:37:30 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-30175 [...] Last night I dreamt of a severed head floating in a container of liquid. The head was still lucid, still talking. To me. I don’t know what he was saying, but of the people gathered, it was my job to “finish off” this head. But I realized I didn’t have the heart for it - even if it was an abomination. I went to find someone else in my group to tell them I couldn’t do it. When I got back, somebody had started pouring alcoholic drinks (possibly including pink cosmos or martinis with olives) into the vat with the head to poison or suffocate it. Instead the head began to drink the liquid in order to keep itself from drowning. I didn’t understand where it was being expelled though. The only exit from the head was the neck, with a gaping hole in it - obviously. And yet the water line lowered regardless. But the head also shrank rapidly and became transparent. [...] [...] Last night I dreamt of a severed head floating in a container of liquid. The head was still lucid, still talking. To me. I don’t know what he was saying, but of the people gathered, it was my job to “finish off” this head. But I realized I didn’t have the heart for it - even if it was an abomination. I went to find someone else in my group to tell them I couldn’t do it. When I got back, somebody had started pouring alcoholic drinks (possibly including pink cosmos or martinis with olives) into the vat with the head to poison or suffocate it. Instead the head began to drink the liquid in order to keep itself from drowning. I didn’t understand where it was being expelled though. The only exit from the head was the neck, with a gaping hole in it - obviously. And yet the water line lowered regardless. But the head also shrank rapidly and became transparent. [...]

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28999 Tim Boucher Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:03:04 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28999 Shit! Shit!

]]> By: Rev Max http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28998 Rev Max Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:48:31 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28998 There's a great essay by Georges Bataille about a painting by Breughels IIRC - the temptation of saint anthony St ANthony's head is <em>dissolving </em>into his halo There’s a great essay by Georges Bataille about a painting by Breughels IIRC - the temptation of saint anthony

St ANthony’s head is dissolving into his halo

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28805 Tim Boucher Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:41:37 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28805 Also moving in the direction of heads and headlessness, I don't know why I didn't think of religious halos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28religious_iconography%29 Also moving in the direction of heads and headlessness, I don’t know why I didn’t think of religious halos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28religious_iconography%29

]]> By: OmegaSupreme http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28796 OmegaSupreme Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:01:08 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28796 Fantastic, great stuff :) Fantastic, great stuff :)

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28794 Tim Boucher Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:31:49 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28794 And: <blockquote>If He sever one head from the body, He at once raises up thousands of heads for the beheaded one. Rumi</blockquote> Compare that to the story of the Hydra and how to defeat the Hydra, you have to cauterize the stumps where the heads are cut off with fire so that they don't grow back double And:

If He sever one head from the body, He at once raises up thousands of heads for the beheaded one. Rumi

Compare that to the story of the Hydra and how to defeat the Hydra, you have to cauterize the stumps where the heads are cut off with fire so that they don’t grow back double

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28793 Tim Boucher Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:29:58 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28793 http://www.headless.org/english-new/experiments/the-bottom-line.htm <blockquote>How wonderful is the path of love, when the headless one is exalted. -Hafiz When thou seest in the pathway a severed head… of it thou wilt learn our hidden mystery. -Rumi I am free from head. -Rumi You have never beheld the head of Man: you are a tail. -Rumi Behead yourself! -Rumi You must choose one of two things - either have your head cut off or go into exile… He who loves Me, but loves his head better, is no true lover. -Attar </blockquote> http://www.headless.org/english-new/experiments/the-bottom-line.htm

How wonderful is the path of love, when the headless one is exalted. -Hafiz

When thou seest in the pathway a severed head… of it thou wilt learn our hidden mystery. -Rumi

I am free from head. -Rumi

You have never beheld the head of Man: you are a tail. -Rumi

Behead yourself! -Rumi

You must choose one of two things - either have your head cut off or go into exile… He who loves Me, but loves his head better, is no true lover. -Attar

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28787 Tim Boucher Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:41:55 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28787 Hey yeah the Mayan head game is a great addition! Hey yeah the Mayan head game is a great addition!

]]> By: skip wiley http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28780 skip wiley Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:04:54 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28780 How about the Mayan game/competition that Joseph Campbell talks about in the Power of Myth where the captain of the <em>winning</em> team has his head cut off immediately after the game's end? (its on pg 108 of the text version, and probably on the "sacrifice and bliss" DVD disc). Over the years that scenario was always hard to imagine (would you really want to win under such circumstances?), but after seeing the Fountain, my perspective on the matter is shifted entirely. "Death is the road to awe," indeed. How about the Mayan game/competition that Joseph Campbell talks about in the Power of Myth where the captain of the winning team has his head cut off immediately after the game’s end? (its on pg 108 of the text version, and probably on the “sacrifice and bliss” DVD disc).

Over the years that scenario was always hard to imagine (would you really want to win under such circumstances?), but after seeing the Fountain, my perspective on the matter is shifted entirely. “Death is the road to awe,” indeed.

]]> By: The Necromancer http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28777 The Necromancer Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:01:24 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28777 This is just off the top of my head, but I love the website. The post on Pinchbeck reminds me of something I jotted down a couple of days ago. This is just off the top of my head, but I love the website. The post on Pinchbeck reminds me of something I jotted down a couple of days ago.

]]> By: OmegaSupreme http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/comment-page-1/#comment-28773 OmegaSupreme Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:36:50 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/19/podcast-17-and-ill-form-the-head/#comment-28773 Idries Shah has a short chapter in his book on the Sufis called "The head of wisdom" well worth a read. The templars he says were accused of worshipping a head, sometimes called "Baphomet", sufi terminology "el-fahmat" == head of knowledge. The black head which appears in heraldry is a cursader substitute word for this kind of knowledge he says. Albertus Magnus spent 30 years making his marvelous brass head ! Idries Shah has a short chapter in his book on the Sufis called “The head of wisdom” well worth a read. The templars he says were accused of worshipping a head, sometimes called “Baphomet”, sufi terminology “el-fahmat” == head of knowledge.

The black head which appears in heraldry is a cursader substitute word for this kind of knowledge he says. Albertus Magnus spent 30 years making his marvelous brass head !

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