"Only Lacan Has The Phallus"

In a streetlight's sphere
close-pent by dark
the rain as it descends
  seems to radiate out
from the eye of the light;
  so all that occurs
in one's mind alone,
accretes to Ego
--that specter made of limitation.

The metaphor of the Spirit. Put your hand out the car
window at 90 mph. Most of the time we don't even know air is
there. The "Spirit" is simply a way of saying this about the
humanness of humans. It's really harmful to posit a separate place
(or mode of existence) where we will (or could be now) always and
necessarily fully human. Because then it becomes politicized--a
collective condition (e.g. why should salvation be the same for any
two persons--the same process or the same language--Christianity
arose when having an identity was rare; that is, when it was poss-
ible to ignore individual differences, or when they were usually sub-
sumed under sectarian names) that obviates the need for individual
effort (the doctrine of Works is almost better, ezcept it too narrowly
defines what work can be)... Gurdjieff'sconcept, however, is restricted
to building an ego. I would like to integrate this into "The Cloud of
Unknowing" (future mindscientists* may measure my folly from this),
for it matters most of all what kind of ego (and egolessness) you make
--or allow for. I think of what a wonderful house my mother's father
built. There was a pit in the garage for working under a car. There was
a receptacle for dog shit so it wouldn't draw flies. There was a foldup
drawing table by the window with the best light. --He just failed to
anticipate the disintegration of society in his plans. It left completely
isolated... --So we construct egos without considering the destruction
of the Spirit...

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*menli jenai degji fatci as i put it on #lojban recently:
the science of "mental- and not finger-reality".