Ontological Anarchy

 

 

Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey) is a genius, in my humble and correct opinion. Like most people who get to the frontiers of consciousness, he sometimes drifts off into deep space and gets ridiculous. That goes with the (lack of) territory. I don't agree with a lot of the things that he writes and I certainly don't follow him around on his various trips into inner and outer space. He's a member of NAMbLA. I do not know if he practices paedophilia or non-violent paederasty.  I have no problem with the latter. To my mind, the age of consent should be when both puberty and a reasonable awareness of what the ramifications of a pubescent person engaging in sexual and emotional intercourse with another pubescent person commences. This is obviously very individual and no law can possibly regulate it.

 

At any rate, Wilson/Bey wrote an essay entitled:

Quantum Mechanics & Chaos Theory
Anarchist Meditations on N. Herbert's
Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

 that impressed me, which is to be found on this URL:

 

http://www.hermetic.com/bey/quantum.html

While I do not agree with his timeline of human development, I think there has been a lot of overlap and at any given time all forms were present to one extent or another; I must certainly do agree with his thesis that our societal relationships impact on how and what we are able to perceive and vice versa.

 

I agree with Wilson entirely that Anarchy is Ontological. The political and social aspects of Anarchy are expressions of Ontological Anarchy on the human level.

 

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat (Safed), Israel

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