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    The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution
    The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution
    The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution
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    The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution

    By Lindsay Traynor

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    This eBook is a collection of poetry and prose by Lindsay Traynor, mystic and poet, who has often stated that a Liberated being is not complete until he/she address the thoroughly unfair and corrupt social and political we all live in regardless of culture religion or personal philosophy.

    It is hoped that those interested in creative and social content derive inspiration and benefit from the practical applications herein contained, overtly, in prosaic form, and by other poetic literary means.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Traynor
    Release dateSep 17, 2020
    ISBN9781005359195
    The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution
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    Lindsay Traynor

    Lindsay Traynor is an Australian poet and mystic though born in Eastern Europe. He has travelled extensively and studied under the wise instruction of some remarkable and extraordinary men and initiated into various esoteric traditions by same, which formerly secret knowledge he is now able to share with everyone, fully cognisant of the fact that only those ready would be able to recognise, appreciate and gain awareness from the experience.Lindsay is a prolific writer and has produced the equivalent in text of around 50-60 novels over the past sixteen years though mostly in the form of articles on varied topics and poetry, his favourite medium.The current book has been gathered from his many poems, essays and articles relating to Self-Realisation, Mysticism, Philosophy, Personal Growth and Social Transformation.We hope that you enjoy and derive benefit from his prodigious output as much as we have benefited and enjoyed reading, collating and presenting the material in eBook formats -- assistant editors.

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      The Poetry of Transformation and Revolution - Lindsay Traynor

      Introduction

      It is self-defeating to write reformative and/or subversive revolutionary material about any existing culture. All the great philosophical, religious and political treatises that we imagine were/are new are merely reproductions of culture as process -- Why/how? Simply due to the fact that culture resides internally as 'mind' – distinct from consciousness – and externally as a social phenomenon, though both productions are inextricably bound in an extremely tight symbiotic relationship by Language.

      Mind cannot be separated from thought and the content of thought is learned from external culture via the socialisation process, which we are all subjected to by necessity if we intend to survive in a particular cultural environment, as we are indeed a social species and therefore subject to this process.

      Whatever we think (thought content) after the socialisation process remains direct cultural content learned from external sources, primarily media, in its broadest sense today; and regardless of how many 'twists' or variations we may imagine we have created individually the process is nevertheless bound by thought (cultural concepts) and learned (superimposed) cultural values, which utilise the 'magical' medium of Language.

      Language is the dynamic propulsion engine of culture and any 'new' broadly accepted word/concept merely becomes another internalised thought concept of culture that may or may not survive depending on a number of factors, the strongest of which is widespread acceptance/Belief.

      Have you never questioned your particular status in life and why, how you arrived at your current position? If not, it's time to question the most fundamental aspects of culture and its conditions, processes and productions, freedom-slavery and all the associated unequal distributions of the naturally occurring and inequitably distributed available cultural productions and not forgetting, the concepts of appropriation and ownership. If done then it quickly becomes apparent that inequality and authoritarianism is characteristic of All cultures.

      Culture in effect reproduces itself internally in mind before it reinforces external culture by relational behaviours (working for example) -- as external culture is dependent on its subjects/slaves as a resource or source of its maintenance, production and reproduction.

      The majority remain subject/Enslaved to it by automatically sharing imposed/learned values, behaviours and beliefs, which are all text/language-based cultural products. So which/whatever 'new' direction/variation of thought one imagines one is creating it nevertheless becomes self-defeating as it is nothing more than a variation of the old as there is no such thing as a cultural void or vacuum from which to draw. All cultures are thought dependent and rely on pre-existing core value or belief systems regardless of how the 'new' variation may be 'dressed' or appear -- in the end it is simply culture repeating itself. However, if these belief systems are interrogated they All reduce to arbitrary, abstract, or imposed fictional values and narratives.

      Thought (language) or internalised culture, which is not necessary for physical survival but is essential for the reproduction and maintenance of external culture, is always behind All cultural processes, manifestations/productions -- which form the substrate structural and socially adhesive aspects of culture; and in that sense there truly is nothing new under the sun regarding man's condition.

      It, thought or internalised language, also explains why political revolutionary movements all end in authoritarian systems; for instance, the extreme 'left' and extreme political 'right' meet and shake hands in totalitarian/authoritarian oppressive regimes with minority, unrepresentative ruling elites at the top, those who have more than they need, and exploited slaves, the majority of which are fed only enough to enable them to serve elites, at the bottom; history verifies same as All cultures are essentially authoritarian structures regardless of transparent names and veneers

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