And, with all my theosophy and woo-woo listening on YouTube he was bound to come up.
This is good. There is, for some reason, an increasing abundance of his lectures and books being made available online.
On the downside, they're largely old-timey recordings of seminars and lectures that he's given.
His voice, shrill, there's the underlying static, hiss of audio, he's a pedant, and not in a bad way. You have to respect his immense learning and accomplishments. He's wise, curious, and - more important - he has the answers, and where he doesn't he doesn't pretend.
He is, for the last century as well as our own, an Occidental master.
The lectures that I've listened to so far; on integrity, or why we should change ourselves and not our leaders (when we've changed ourselves we can better become our leaders - leadership is but a deflection for our own bad behavior), on "Secret Powers, and why we should not use them" - and here, here he has good answers. This is the Bible retold, but with an explanation - that to open these doors and go down these roads oft leads to forks and paths of no return, and that - while there are many things we do not know (and he's referring to mediumship, telepathy, false gurus) we have guides at our disposal that DO work and should not need to resort to them...and perhaps - most curious, a learned thing for me - that the oldest, the most ancient of all prayers - regardless of culture/religion/ - were to offer praise and gratitude to God/Gods/Deities/Spirits. There were no petitions, no intercessions, no - none of it.
There was simply the expression of thanks for the divine privilege of being.
Now, I've been down so many of these rabbit holes that I'm going to be forced to back-track and see who he contradicts, if any (and - probably not; these views are debauched Catholicism, Christianity. He's right without question, and intuitively we are of the same mind, not that mine is as great, merely that it's been informed by his and agrees, I can find no argument...), that every action or thought - no matter how trivial, should be considered in light of it's consequences upon others.
This, never harder than now, but he's right. Of course he's right.
Oh, and BTW, if you didn't know, he's Canadian. Or was.
Back to my listening. "An Alphabet of Dream Symbols - Studies in Dream Symbolism".
Search him out.
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Found myself listening to a lot of him lately.
He's well reasoned, reassuring, the recordings of him on YouTube vary greatly - from his younger self to older, he speaks simply and eloquently on the greater mysteries of life.
In the absence of intelligent company there's always the internet...
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Read the book, loved it. Saw the movie - not so much. And now, I've discovered the audiobook, narrated by the author, Jon Ronson himself.
Men Who Stare At Goats Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wTMSUFos3o
There's something about his narration, his voice captures it perfectly, anxiety increasing in it's pitch, his POV, trying to humour his subjects, pretend that it's normal, you can tell he's thinking - "WTF? WHO WOULD BELIEVE ME?", meanwhile retaining enough of his composure to ask the right questions and continue down the rabbit hole.
It's an enjoyable listen while I mindlessly try and perfect the art of crystal-wrapping.
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