Paranada: Beyond Beyond

And now for something completely different. From “Paranada: Beyond Beyond” by Currie and Pacheco in Integral Review, 5:1, 2009, 184 – 230: 

Delphi is famous as the seat of Apollo, the god of reason, of limit. The Delphic motto is “Know thyself,” the stern injunction inscribed at its temple portal. Delphi is also home to Dionysos, the god of instinct, of un-limit, the boundless apeiron. Somehow the two gods, so seemingly opposed at a fundamental level, gained here, at the center of the cosmos a mysterious equilibrium of force-counter-force, of materiality contra immateriality, of Being contra Non-Being. 

Transcendence is the key to the tragic dithyramb of the god of frenzied ecstasy, Dionysos, the god who dies to be reborn in the trieteric rite of spring: tri-(three), e- (from) ter- (three) equals zero, i.e., is of non-existence.

Transcendence is also the key to the “far-darting” arrow of the god of order, Apollo; the key to one, and none—freed from the confines of space and time, transcendent (196). 

Now, on having finally (at least for now) settled on the final draft, I know that the reader, like my idol, Jean-Luc Godard, whose habit is first to read the last passage of a book — any book — may well be wondering “What is Paranada's ‘Big Idea’? Where does it end up?” 

Quite simply, it is to stress the discovery, that is to say rediscovery, of what Huxley (2004) called the “perennial philosophy” of the East in Pythagoras' plot, his cosmic plan, of Delphi. 

In effect, I found spiritual liberation in Delphi's rite of spring, in the mind of Apollo, and in the ecstatic heart of Dionysos (224).

Re: Paranada: Beyond Beyond

From the “far-darting” arrow of the good of order, Apollo, to the mere farting arrows of Diogenes: “Get outta my sunlight, you're ruining my sunbath.”
*pruuuuuit!*