Instincts and senses, death, Ernest Becker, LSD, God, the artist, and lost in translation

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Instincts and senses are worth nothing after death. They are death preventers. They become obsolete at death.

Ernest Becker speaks of this world of 'dignified madness', and 'Gods with anuses'.

LSD revelation of a friend: life is filled with only engagings in, and cruisings past.

The emergent properties of faith, loss of self, or Becker's multidimensional reality.

There must, every once in a while, be contemporary interpretations of truth. Words lose their original meaning (ie. God, sin, enlightenment)

Despair is profane drunkenness after enlightenment.

The artist creates options instead of choosing from them.

A translator's apology is never necessary, as meaning cannot help but be lost in translation.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.