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		<title>Rene Daumal &#8211; &#8220;The Prophet&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The child who was speaking in the name of the sun used to go into the streets of the dead village; rats would run towards his bare feet when he stopped at the crossroads. &#160; The child called with a voice full of ships, white sails and flying fish, and men who had turned into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/20/rene-daumal-the-prophet/</link>
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		<title>William Segal on &#8220;2012&#8243; (not that he would have put it that way)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are living in a special time.  Throughout the world there is a stirring and an interrelation of forces never before experienced by mankind.  All around us we see an unprecedented acceleration of the possibilities of change.  Power potentials have been released which threaten to upset cosmic balances. Ironically, the more gigantic and astonishing our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/20/william-segal-on-2012-not-that-he-would-have-put-it-that-way/</link>
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		<title>William Segal on Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When one first begins to work with conscious attention one discovers that the subsystems of body, feelings, and mind function inefficiently and disharmoniously.  Yet the simple awareness of misalignment may introduce an element capable of binding the disparate parts into an integrated whole.  With sustained awareness  comes a heightened sensitivity, openness, a quiet mind.  Man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/20/william-segal-on-meditation/</link>
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		<title>William Segal on the Role of the Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True knowledge, to perpetuate itself, needs living forms.  Those who seek it must assimilate it directly by participation of their whole being.  It is not knowledge but the experience of the &#8220;other&#8221; that a teacher imparts.  This becomes yours; when you receive it, you can shape it in your own way to meet your particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/20/william-segal-on-the-role-of-the-teacher/</link>
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		<title>William Segal on Dharmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watchfulness at the moment of receiving an impression; the deeper the impression enters, the greater its power to do work.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/20/william-segal-on-dharmas/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on Form, Formlessness, and Renewal &#8211; from “The Open Door” (pg 64)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is written and printed does not yet have dramatic form. If we say to ourselves: “These words must be pronounced in a certain manner, have a certain tone or rhythm…” then, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we will always be mistaken. It leads to everything that is so awful in tradition, in the worst sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/19/peter-brook-on-form-formlessness-and-renewal/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on Purity &#8211; from “The Open Door” (pg 143)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True questions are often found in paradox and are impossible to resolve. There is a balance to be found between that which tries to be pure and that which becomes pure through its relationship to the impure. One can thus see to what extent an idealistic theatre cannot exist as long as it attempts to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/19/peter-brook-on-purity-from-%e2%80%9cthe-open-door%e2%80%9d-pg-143/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on The Door &#8211; from “The Open Door” (pg 106)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great ritual, a fundamental myth is a door, a door that is not there to be observed, but to be experienced, and he who can experience the door within himself passes through it most intensely. So the past is not to be arrogantly ignored. But we must not cheat. If we steal its rituals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/19/peter-brook-on-the-door-from-%e2%80%9cthe-open-door%e2%80%9d-pg-106/</link>
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		<title>Renee Daumal – A Night of Serious Drinking (pg 109)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But what is more comforting than to discover that we are less than nothing? It&#8217;s only by turning ourselves inside out that we shall become something. Is it not a great comfort to the caterpillar to learn that she is merely a larvae, that her time of being a semi-crawling digestive tube will not last, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/18/renee-daumal-%e2%80%93-a-night-of-serious-drinking-pg-109/</link>
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		<title>Renee Daumal – A Night of Serious Drinking (pg 105-106)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With difficulty, I succeeded in reaching the room above. It was a sort of operation-cum-observation post. The only means of seeing out was provided by two lenses embedded in the wall like a pair of binoculars. The room was cluttered with levers, handles, gadgets, gauges, and dials by means of which it was presumably possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/18/renee-daumal-%e2%80%93-a-night-of-serious-drinking-pg-105-106/</link>
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		<title>Renee Daumal – A Night of Serious Drinking (pg 83)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near to the Sophers, who looked down upon them rather, stood a small band of internees grouped around a young Tibetan whom they considered their leader. This Asian was known as Nakintchanamourti, which means, in the language of Sanscruting, “Incarnation of nothing whatsoever.” I had the opportunity of taking a look at him. He did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/18/renee-daumal-a-night-of-serious-drinking-pg-83/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on Chance &#8211; from “The Open Door” (pg 143)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I say “chance”, and this could be misleading. Chance exists; it is not the same as luck, it obeys rules we cannot understand, but it certainly can be helped and favoured. There must be many efforts – all efforts create a field of energy, and this at a critical moment attracts toward it a solution. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/17/peter-brook-on-chance/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on Fishing &#8211; from “The Open Door” (pg 101)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can follow this better if we think of a fisherman making a net. As he works, care and meaning are present in every flick of the finger. He draws the threads, he ties the knots, enclosing emptiness with forms whose exact shapes correspond to exact functions. Then the net is thrown into the water, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/17/peter-brook-on-fishing/</link>
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		<title>Peter Brook on Creativity &#8211; from &#8220;The Open Door” (pg 112-113)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art is a spinning wheel, rotating around a still centre which we can neither grasp nor define.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/17/peter-brook-on-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Rene Daumal &#8211; &#8220;Willed Fire&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The human animal is a superimposition of vicious circles. The great secret is that they are turning by themselves. But the centers of these circles are, themselves, turning upon a circle; man leaves the latter in order to enter the former. This revolution has not escaped the eyes of wise men; only they escape the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/16/rene-daumal-willed-fire/</link>
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		<title>Renee Daumal – “The Shadow&#8217;s Skin”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I drag my hope along with my sack of nails, I drag my strangled hope before your feet, you who are no longer, and I who am no more. I drag a sack of nails over the burning shore while chanting all the names I will give you and those I no longer have. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/16/renee-daumal-the-shadows-skin/</link>
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		<title>Rene Daumal on Polar Poetics &#8211; From “Keys to a Great Poetic Game #27”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two poles of poetic manifestation, male and female, are composed of Idea devoid of attributes and primary matter that contains all possible attributes. The passionless poet is impotent; the poet who only expresses his passions would make no sense and would only be able, at most, to emit discordant screams.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/16/rene-daumal-on-polar-poetics/</link>
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		<title>Rene Daumal on Creativity &#8211; from the translator&#8217;s introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Daumal, the work of art stands for something expressed, projected, as it where, from within. As a representation of an inner experience, the work of art becomes a symbol of a momentary state of being crystallized in an artistic form. Once outside the artist, it serves as a mirror in which different states of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/16/rene-daumal-on-creativity/</link>
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		<title>A Warning from Rene Daumal &#8211; From “The Poet&#8217;s Warning”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To unlearn to daydream, to learn to think; to unlearn to philosophize, to learn to speak. This is not done overnight. Nevertheless, we have little time left to do it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/16/a-warning-from-rene-daumal/</link>
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		<title>Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Gurdjieff!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, as far as I can tell, is the officially agreed-upon birthday of Mr. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.  In his honor, Reclusland will be posting quotes and clippings from three followers of his work throughout the next week.  Rather than going with the better known Gudjieffians though (Ouspensky, Orage, or Bennett), I&#8217;ll be focusing on three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/13/joyeux-anniversaire-monsieur-gurdjieff/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Digital Dharma&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know things have been quiet here for a while.  My apologies, it&#8217;s been a busy holiday season here in Reclusland.  And while I am still a bit short on the &#8220;regularly scheduled&#8221; programming I did want to take a moment and do some good-hearted shilling for some kind people who recently got in touch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2012/01/02/digital-dharma/</link>
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		<title>Jospeh Campbell on the Fountain Within (squaring the circle, or vice-versa)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“A pedagogical stunt. Plato has said somewhere that the soul is a circle. I took this idea to suggest on the blackboard the whole sphere of the psyche. Then I drew a horizontal line across the circle to represent the line of separation of the conscious and the unconscious. The dot in the center of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2011/12/08/jospeh-campbell-on-the-fountain-within/</link>
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		<title>C. G. Jung on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Know Mind&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The concept of the unconscious posits nothing; it designates only my unknowing.&#8221; (from a letter to Pastor Max Frischkeit dated 8 February 1946.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2011/12/03/c-g-jung-on-dont-know-mind/</link>
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		<title>Gurdjieff on the Fountain Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more a man studies the obstacles and deceptions which lie in wait for him at every step in this realm, the more convinced he becomes that it is impossible to travel the path of self-development on the chance instructions of chance people, or the kind of information culled from reading and casual talk. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2011/11/24/gurdjieff-on-the-fountain-within/</link>
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		<title>Reggie Ray on the Fountain Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mahayana motivation is born with the arising of bodhichitta. The Sanskrit boddhichitta is made up of two words: bodi, enlightenment, and chita, mind or heart; it may be translated as the &#8220;mind of enlightenment&#8221; or &#8220;heart of enlightenment&#8221;.  (The word chitta refers to the seat of human intelligence, which is considered to reside in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2011/11/21/reggie-ray-on-the-fountain-within/</link>
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