"This lonely organ, which has appeared to be imprisoned in the skull, tormenting intellectuals throughout history,' said Jean-Paul merrily, 'may after all be a transceiver, tuning into various types of extraphysical mind, and contributing to them with its own broadcasts.'"
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Date
2000
Metaphor
"This lonely organ, which has appeared to be imprisoned in the skull, tormenting intellectuals throughout history,' said Jean-Paul merrily, 'may after all be a transceiver, tuning into various types of extraphysical mind, and contributing to them with its own broadcasts.'"
Metaphor in Context
'The only other way out of the physicalist impasse is to plunge deeper into the immaterial, and lay claim to various forms of discarnate mind - the collective unconscious of Jung, or the inherent memory of Sheldrake's "morphogenetic fields". In such a model, the brain is not just the generator of consciousness but the recipient of consciousness. This lonely organ, which has appeared to be imprisoned in the skull, tormenting intellectuals throughout history,' said Jean-Paul merrily, 'may after all be a transceiver, tuning into various types of extraphysical mind, and contributing to them with its own broadcasts.'
(p. 72)
(p. 72)
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Reading
Citation
Edward St. Aubyn, A Clue to the Exit (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000).
Date of Entry
09/19/2015
