Showing posts with label The Daemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Daemon. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Ode to Anthony Peake's Daemon: September's Windfall, 2007
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| British Binary Mind theorist Anthony Peake, as a young man. |
-- James Allen
Thy Daemon;
that thy spirit which keeps thee
is noble, courageous, high, unmatchable.
Ceasare's is not.
And the Daemon replied, "I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, it was like to that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man."~ HP Lovecraft
And the Daemon replied, "I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, it was like to that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man."~ HP Lovecraft
People were emailing me when Vanilla Sky came out and saying, “My God, have you seen this film? It’s your book!” ~ British author, Anthony Peake, 2007
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| Anthony Peake today: Some things just get better and better: On air, on one of his numerous radio spots |
One of the most important ideas which I found on this day in 2007, was Anthony Peake's concept of the "Daemon", as depicted in his first work, Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die (Chartwell Books, 2006, and originally entitled, "Cheating the Ferryman").
I actually encountered his theory via an essay entitled, "Cheating the Ferryman: A New Paradigm of Existence?", published in the Journal of Near Death Studies.
A mixture of Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence theory and quantum physics and psychology, this idea came to me at a time when I was deeply grieving the loss of my husband.
Peake's fascinating theory fuses metaphysical and empirical theory into a heady brew about the individual, and what his secret second self, residing within his consciousness, can do for him in life, and at the moment of death.
I salute Anthony Peake. To learn more about Peake and his theories, visit his website and forum. Peake has signed contracts with publishers for third, fourth, and fifth (as distinguished editor) books. One of them is with the illustrious Arcturus Publishing, Inc., and will be entitled Time, Dreams, and Precognition. Bravo to him!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday, December 12, 2008
TO ORDER FROM AMAZON: BRITAIN'S ANTHONY PEAKE's second book, The Daemon
His dyad consists of an eidolon-self (our daily and conscious self) and a daemon-self, which is supra-conscious and transendent, and remembers our returns to this life in the eternal recurrence schema which was made famous by Nietzsche. Supported by antiquity and classical philosophy, and bolstered further by quantum science and cognitive studies, Peake's theory is sophisticated and timely.
In Chapter 3, "The Voices", Peake makes the case for the Socratic daemon and its intervention in the trial of Socrates. This is a profoundly compelling and cheering passage for philosophers, and in his eclecticism, Peake is unsurpassed. I have recommended this text to an important New York philosopher, Lou Marinoff, head of the Philosophical Practicioners movement in the United States, and will deliver to him his own personal copy when time and health permit . This naming of the entity which is both part of our unconsious and yet closely tied with our daily thinking and actions is essential to both applied philosophy and psychology; clinicians everywhere ought to be informed of Peake's theory, as a tool for linking philosophy and the field of mental healthcare.
The area of Neuro Linguistic Programming and therapy has an apt field for application in Peake's unique dyad theory of binary mind, and plans are underway in Great Britain for just such an application, conducted by his colleague, Karl L Le Marcs. The Americans allied with Philosophical Practice, especially as it pertains to clinical practice in psychology, should be aware of this important development.
Chapter 10 is a marvelous analysis of Philip K Dick, the high-brow futuristic writer and Gnostic thinker. Identified with him, and bearing the name of one of his bearers of a new afterlife theory, "Anarch Peak", Anthony Peake is qualified to write on PKD not only as a meticulous scholar and talented literary man, but as a brother and co-founder of an important postmodern development in Gnostic thinking.
For those who have been wowed by Peter Novak's binary mind books - and his Lost Secret of Death and Division of Consciousness have enthralled millions - I recommend Anthony Peake as a harbringer of a theory which augments Novak's, and whose conclusions surpass his with grace, gentleness , and an offer of personal hope.
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