Post by gurthbruins on Mar 17, 2014 4:57:17 GMT
1. "Uselessly" by Aryan Kaganof
I am now reading the enfant terrible Aryan Kaganof. Brilliant humour, and hidden among the nauseating stuff (a Crowleyan challenge) I find some beautiful thoughts which I must get around to sharing sometime.
An Oration to Children - excerpt from "Uselessly" by Aryan Kaganof:
"You are yourself already. You always were. You don't have to grow up into a so-called 'adult'. That way is the way of those who grow down, who in fact cease to live. Adulthood is living death. You may as well be dead when you lose the ability to dream, when your imagination shuts down. It is only the so-called children who are really alive. When you stop being a child, you actually die.To do so is a choice. The dead people, the ones called adults, teach you to voluntarily choose death. They do this because it is what they have already done. They do not know any better. It is not because they want to harm you that they choose to teach you to kill yourself. They truly believe they are doing this to you for your own good. This is why they are your worst enemies. Precisely because they believe they have your best intentions at heart.
"Your parents and your teachers and your governments are murderers. Ruthless assassins who have been programmed to do to you what was once done to them. This is the terrible cycle of forgetfulness that has been going on for countless centuries on this planet. The history that is taught to you at school is not the real history. The real history of the world is one simple story. The story of life's battle against death. Un-knowledge is death. Real life is a creative spirit that knows no fear and fears no knowledge. Nothing is forbidden; there are no taboos in real life. You don't need to achieve anything in order to be a success. ..."
On slowness:
"...I knew right then, at that tender age, that it was my mission to SLOW THINGS DOWN! Not by preaching, mind you, and certainly not in the sense of garish activities like politics, activism etc. No, my mission was a personal one. I was sent here in order to contribute to the slowing down of the universe, which was in the throes of a terrible process of being speeded up by the forces of nescience. Nothing more was expected of me. Merely to live my life at the correct tempo - the speed that my soul insisted upon and not the pace demanded by an impatient world that was always threatening to develop into something newer, better, faster. To set an example. From that moment on, I was forever removed from the grim social disease that unites most people: the sickness of ambition. I stopped right then. Literally stopped in mid-air. I was whole. Completely happy. At one with the glorious simplicity of my destiny. I did not have to do anything. Nothing was required of me, nothing at all. It was enough that I was. More than enough."
- Aryan Kaganof, "Uselessly"
I am now reading the enfant terrible Aryan Kaganof. Brilliant humour, and hidden among the nauseating stuff (a Crowleyan challenge) I find some beautiful thoughts which I must get around to sharing sometime.
An Oration to Children - excerpt from "Uselessly" by Aryan Kaganof:
"You are yourself already. You always were. You don't have to grow up into a so-called 'adult'. That way is the way of those who grow down, who in fact cease to live. Adulthood is living death. You may as well be dead when you lose the ability to dream, when your imagination shuts down. It is only the so-called children who are really alive. When you stop being a child, you actually die.To do so is a choice. The dead people, the ones called adults, teach you to voluntarily choose death. They do this because it is what they have already done. They do not know any better. It is not because they want to harm you that they choose to teach you to kill yourself. They truly believe they are doing this to you for your own good. This is why they are your worst enemies. Precisely because they believe they have your best intentions at heart.
"Your parents and your teachers and your governments are murderers. Ruthless assassins who have been programmed to do to you what was once done to them. This is the terrible cycle of forgetfulness that has been going on for countless centuries on this planet. The history that is taught to you at school is not the real history. The real history of the world is one simple story. The story of life's battle against death. Un-knowledge is death. Real life is a creative spirit that knows no fear and fears no knowledge. Nothing is forbidden; there are no taboos in real life. You don't need to achieve anything in order to be a success. ..."
On slowness:
"...I knew right then, at that tender age, that it was my mission to SLOW THINGS DOWN! Not by preaching, mind you, and certainly not in the sense of garish activities like politics, activism etc. No, my mission was a personal one. I was sent here in order to contribute to the slowing down of the universe, which was in the throes of a terrible process of being speeded up by the forces of nescience. Nothing more was expected of me. Merely to live my life at the correct tempo - the speed that my soul insisted upon and not the pace demanded by an impatient world that was always threatening to develop into something newer, better, faster. To set an example. From that moment on, I was forever removed from the grim social disease that unites most people: the sickness of ambition. I stopped right then. Literally stopped in mid-air. I was whole. Completely happy. At one with the glorious simplicity of my destiny. I did not have to do anything. Nothing was required of me, nothing at all. It was enough that I was. More than enough."
- Aryan Kaganof, "Uselessly"