#donald tyson

[nousrose]

The sole knowledge human beings have of the world is the interpretation created by their own minds. This is why eastern mystics say the world is a dream. What is usually thought of as external and substantial is actually made of the same stuff as a dream image. It exists in the same place, the mind, and is mentally projected outside what are perceived to be the limits of the body. There is no essential difference between inside the body and outside. Both exist within the mind. There is no root distinction between the mental and the physical; all is mind. To say the world is an illusion is not to say that it does not exist. This is a common error of those who are too eager to embrace the transcendent view. The salient point is that human beings can never know anything about the absolute world with their everyday awareness. Everything experienced is an interpretation, a metaphor, of something else.

New Millennium Magic

Donald Tyson

[funeral]

The sole knowledge human beings have of the world is the interpretation created by their own minds. This is why Eastern mystics say the world is a dream. What is usually thought of as external and substantial is actually made of the same stuff as a dream image. It exists in the same place—the mind—and is mentally projected outside what are perceived to be the limits of the body. There is no essential difference between inside the body and outside. Both exist within the mind. There is no root distinction between the mental and the physical; all is mind. To say the world is an illusion is not to say that it does not exist...The salient point is that human beings can never know anything about the absolute world with their everyday awareness. Everything experienced is an interpretation, a metaphor, of something else.

Donald Tyson, New Millennium Magic

[kalitera-stin-erimia]

Lovecraft and Cosmic Wonder

"But the thing is, for Lovecraft, cosmic-existential horror wasn’t the whole story. Not by a cyclopean margin. In fact, a look at his overall body of fiction, and also his personal development as an author, and his various essays about life and writing, and the teeming ocean of thousands of letters that he wrote to a vast network of correspondents, shows that his focus on the cosmic horrific theme of existence-as-nightmare was balanced and complemented by a deep craving for liberation into transcendent realms of beauty and bliss. As I observed just a few days ago in my latest column for SF Signal, “Fantasy, Horror, and Infinite Longing,” this pairing of horror or terror with sehnsucht, the emotion C.S. Lewis identified as the “inconsolable longing” for “that unnamable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves,” is quite common among authors and artists, especially those working in the field of the fantastic. <...>

So Dream-Quest is fully as much about an exquisite experience of cosmic longing as it is about a wrenching experience of cosmic horror. The novel shows Carter yearning for an escape into a dreamworld and to a dream city of eternal solace and beauty, and being opposed by all of those nightmarish figures Tyson mentions. And it’s the recognition of this fact, not just in this particular novel but as it’s threaded throughout the rest of Lovecraft’s life and work, that’s missing from so much contemporary scholarship. It’s not that Lovecraft wasn’t about cosmic horror, but that he wasn’t all about it. Cosmic horror was wedded to cosmic wonder in his psyche. The one bled into the other. They were inextricably united as flipsides or complements in his affective makeup. Their paradoxical pairing was in fact the engine that drove him, since he was perpetually poised on the razor’s edge between perceiving the cosmic perspective as nightmarish and perceiving it as beautiful and liberating. This tension channeled itself into a burning desire to capture and convey both intimations in imaginative form, and the fact that the darker aspect has gotten more press than the lighter one in the popular and even the critical imagination, and has in fact become rote, is vaguely reminiscent of the smear-job perpetrated by Rufus Griswold on the memory of Edgar Allan Poe.  But in Lovecraft’s case it appears to have happened by accident, with, perhaps, some help from unsympathetic critics such as Edmund Wilson."

From Cosmic Horror and Cosmic Wonder: Revisioning Our Vision of H.P. Lovecraft by Matt Cardin.

[siryl]

Cover art by K. L. Turner for Cruel Stories by Donald Tyson.

[relaxedstyles]

[reality-detective]

"Trump is the man!" - Mike Tyson

[pingintech]

bro you beat a 60 year old man with a leg injury by 3 points by running away the whole time and using your 5 foot reach and youre what??? proud of that??? weak ass boring ass shit man sad as hell

also shut yo ho ass mouth on that maga bullshit we get it you eat out of the garbage mans ass

[carelessflower]

the orange cheetos felon winning the election, grammy nomination snubs everywhere, people magazine selected not only non hottest man but also the one who has no notable project this year as if setting him up, jake paul doesn't get executed by mike tyson instead he win the mf thing and now we gotta hear about it by the most annoying men ever. november is on a historic flopping chart run

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth. Now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci

[sadpanda]

Donald Trump, Joey Logano, John Krasinski, and Jake Paul all within 10 days

[jelliibeanz]

first trump, now Jake Paul? this is a bad month to run out of zoloft

[bobjostarshine]

Juelz Santana — the baby of the crew, groomed to be the best of his class. A true beast on the mic & an underrated fashion icon. Peep game y’all !

[funeral]

Donald Tyson, New Millennium Magic

[phantom088]

What has this world come too?

First Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the election, now Jake Paul has beaten Mike Tyson in a boxing match.

What the literal fuck is going on rn?

[trumpdump]

[pixel-tweakers]

Meanwhile, in an alternate universe...