Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@leashless As Wallace Stevens wrote and as James Hillman would later be fond of quoting, “the way through the world is harder to find than the way beyond it.” Simply setting foot on the Earth might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2021

@stewartdantec "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @antoniogm As though the natural obligations and consequences of mortal existence, through and beyond the death experience, somehow dissolve in the vacant transcendence of a Promethean Rapture fantasy. The metaverse, not so much heavenly city, as concentration camp. The planet is our home.Quoted by@antoniogm As though the natural obligations and consequences of mortal existence, through and beyond the death experience, somehow dissolve in the vacant transcendence of a Promethean Rapture fantasy. The metaverse, not so much heavenly city, as concentration camp. The planet is our home.