Adam Kadmon

"The symbolism of the muse, the goddess, is strong in our occidental tradition and it's also strong in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of India. The Chinese tradition is somewhat different but has very interesting contacts with a kind of muse point of view that very early that became covered over: It's in Taoism, and within the emphasis on the female, the feminine, the spirit of the valley, the yin. Taoism being, following Dr. Joseph Needham's assessment of it in Science and Civilization in China, the largest single chunk of matrilineal descent, mother consciousness-oriented, neolithic culture that went through the, so to speak, sound barrier of civilization in the Iron Age and came out the other side halfway intact. Thus through its whole political history it has been anti-feudal and anti-patriarchal, so much so that Dr. Needham says that in a way Taoism was a 2,000 year-long holding action for the Chinese communist revolution. Dr. Needham is a bio-chemist from England."
[Gary Snyder, The Politics of Ethnopoetics ]

"The war is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines."
[Hugo Ball]

"Many who are utterly dependent upon this dense congestion of socially useless getting and spending may never see the full context of the work they do. That is the peculiar moral dodge made available by our social complexity. It allows us to work in the blind at little, seemingly innocent fractions of big, dishonorable projects. The full extent of the culpability may be nearly impossible to delineate; there are so many degrees and shadings. But the ethical issue is nevertheless there at the heart of our economy, and it must be addressed by any honest discussion of work. There is work that is good and useful; and there is work that is not. Work that is not good and useful is work that wastes the lives of people and the resources of the Earth-and industrial society generates a scandalous amount of that kind of work. Perhaps it is what our society does most. In our search for a true vocation, here is indeed a Himalayan obstacle. For it may mean there is a prodigious amount of work we are involved in which no healthy sense of responsibility should permit us to do at all."
[Theodore Roszak, Person/Planet ]

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