Devoured by God: Cannibalism, Mysticism, and Ethics in Simone Weil.(Critical Essay)
From: Cross Currents
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Date: 6/22/2001
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Author: IRWIN, ALEC
Vishnu, seeing you brush
the clouds with flames
of countless colors,
your mouths agape,
your huge eyes blazing
my inner self quakes...
Seeing the fangs
Protruding
from your mouths
like the fires of time,
I lose my bearings...
Bhagavad Gita [1]
He really appears to feel himself being devoured from within. Without doubt this is true, but he does not suspect that he is eating himself.
Anthropologist's description of a Tibetan ...
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