I have always had a powerful fascination/repulsion with asceticism, or the will-to-discipline oneself by means of regimes that come from many different places (religion most obviously, but also philosophy, art, revolutionary politics and so on). This interest was so strong that I essentially wrote a dissertation about it, albeit one that addressed the topic in an allusive and indirect way, and in a way that (looking back now) strikes me as somewhat naive. What
There is an aspect of asceticism, or at least the attraction to it, that is as focused on the attainment of SENSATION itself. One looks for wisdom, (or enlightenment, etc…), thru the feeling that one will attain by, for instance, fasting. (I’m just spit-balling here, forgive the tortured writing please!) The Ascetic has more in common with the sensualist, the decadent, even the inebriate then might seem at first glance.
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There is an aspect of asceticism, or at least the attraction to it, that is as focused on the attainment of SENSATION itself. One looks for wisdom, (or enlightenment, etc…), thru the feeling that one will attain by, for instance, fasting. (I’m just spit-balling here, forgive the tortured writing please!) The Ascetic has more in common with the sensualist, the decadent, even the inebriate then might seem at first glance.
You’re newsletter is fantastic, btw. Keep up the good work.