From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:02:53 EST
Subject: Re:  RE: relations (external/internal)


"[though, as both of us
have been saying all along, this mysticism has nothing at all to do with
'elfquests']"

I'm just curious as to whether anyone can give any rigorous treatment of this
particular subject. This term has been thrown around in various forms, and is
it being proposed as a serious term to denote some tendencies? If so, perhaps
it might be better to draw up a generalized critique that is not dismissive
but actually assesses real forces and tassles with them. As far as I'm aware,
"elfquest" is the name of a comic book series about elves on another planet.
Just precisely what is it you are critiquing with this notion? So-called "new
age" mysticism or metaphysics? Are you critiquing "channelling"? Are you
critiquing traditional folk beliefs in the "little folk"? Are you saying that
anyone who claims experience under these sorts of rubrics is invalid? And if
either of the latter, have you read "Dreamtime" by Hans Peter Duerr where he
engages very rigorously the epistemology of such experiences, often in a way
strikingly resonant with deleuze and guattari? A schizoanalysis of new age
cult(ure)s, psychedelia, as well as folk beliefs could be very interesting and
not dismissive, opening out lines of flight as well as bogs and traps.