Comments on: Relating to Aurobindo: An Essay once called Killing the Beast http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/ ...a lonely impulse of delight Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:36:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Darrell Moneyhon http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-77 Darrell Moneyhon Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:36:21 +0000 http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-77 editing note to above comment: ..."soon to be less and less" human, that is. That is what I meant, not less and less consciousness-clouding lactic acid. Darrell editing note to above comment: …”soon to be less and less” human, that is. That is what I meant, not less and less consciousness-clouding lactic acid.
Darrell

]]> By: Darrell Moneyhon http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-76 Darrell Moneyhon Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:32:37 +0000 http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-76 Dear Steven, I enjoyed the piece. Excellent writing. I worked in prison for the last 13 or 14 years of my state employment (now retired), and worked 15 or 16 in state psychiatric hospitals, so I appreciated the descriptions of sociopathy vs psychopathy, and how these "situations" interplay with "The Beast". To me, the Beast's breath is the feel of non-integration - of energy not open to the rest of energy, but locked into action on its own, like some anerobic sprint which pumps an ultimately unsustainable amount of lactic acid into the muscles and minds of human beings, soon to be less and less. Almost all of the tragic character flaws in your piece could be seen in terms of the "short run". Interesting how sustability may be a worthy opponent to the Beast, and how going long also goes wide (ecological consciousness, including the ecology of human collectives, interdependent social paradigms). Long goes wide, because wide is required in order to achieve long. Yet this long view, and the wide view, is not what the sociopath or the psychopath or the everyday politician, or the everyday consumer, has. May we learn from your tragic characters and from the many enablers, which probably includes me and you, as we unwittingly feed The Beast. Darrell Dear Steven, I enjoyed the piece. Excellent writing. I worked in prison for the last 13 or 14 years of my state employment (now retired), and worked 15 or 16 in state psychiatric hospitals, so I appreciated the descriptions of sociopathy vs psychopathy, and how these “situations” interplay with “The Beast”. To me, the Beast’s breath is the feel of non-integration – of energy not open to the rest of energy, but locked into action on its own, like some anerobic sprint which pumps an ultimately unsustainable amount of lactic acid into the muscles and minds of human beings, soon to be less and less. Almost all of the tragic character flaws in your piece could be seen in terms of the “short run”. Interesting how sustability may be a worthy opponent to the Beast, and how going long also goes wide (ecological consciousness, including the ecology of human collectives, interdependent social paradigms). Long goes wide, because wide is required in order to achieve long. Yet this long view, and the wide view, is not what the sociopath or the psychopath or the everyday politician, or the everyday consumer, has. May we learn from your tragic characters and from the many enablers, which probably includes me and you, as we unwittingly feed The Beast.
Darrell

]]> By: jim cook http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-60 jim cook Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:48:16 +0000 http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-60 still a great piece! one thing you don't have in common with Aurobindo is that you don't have any wasted words, each one is integral to the narrative. always a pleasure to read. still a great piece! one thing you don’t have in common with Aurobindo is that you don’t have any wasted words, each one is integral to the narrative. always a pleasure to read.

]]> By: Tim Ramsey http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-56 Tim Ramsey Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:55:45 +0000 http://derechosalvaje.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/relating-to-aurobindo-an-essay-once-called-killing-the-beast/#comment-56 I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. Tim Ramsey I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.

Tim Ramsey

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