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Unpublished early writings by Jack Haas:

selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.

 

author Jack Haas, Canadian, American writer, artist, photographer

 

 

Early writings

 

Baseball, Carmanah old-growth forests, emotion, DNA, oak trees, and other planet vacations

Fear, emotion, knowledge, materialism, literature, natural survival, and the body.

Money, Hollywood actors, Platonic forms, Colin Wilson, Outsiders, and wilderness

Colin Wilson, work, cops, democracy, cultural dynamics, action, and government

Great men, leaders, truth, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and social structure

Ambiguity, intention, a football game, the future, thought, and ownership

School, reality, objectivity, gestalt, and the whole being greater than the sum of the parts

A pretend friend, money, New York city, shame, work, and solitude

The state, sarcasm, the clock, thought, time, the government, and life's fertilization

Mistakes, success, the self, books, societal collapse, University, and pure thought

Social support systems, human error, prisoners of time, and evolutionary amoebas

Social ants, Phantom of the Opera, selling a sale, professors, gurus, fear, and a haiku

Aldous Huxley, society, sympathy for the Devil, agnosticism, Gurdjieff, and life as a lesbian

Behavior, Spinoza, Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, Peter Mathiesson, the Snow Leopard, Chess, and Judo

Saints, sinners, confidence, art and artist, individualism, and Marshal Mcluhan

Marshal Mcluhan, electricity, the soul, religious systems, art, William Blake, and humankind

Buddha, happiness, tradition, work, Aldous Huxley, Moksha, William Blake, and nature as novelty

Norman Kemp Smith, the divine, the creator, logic, Huey Lewis, and righteous indignation

Consciousness, evolution, war, Marshal Mcluhan, business, God, the self, and conversation

Nietzsche, aphorisms, social reconstruction, being human, Aldous Huxley, moksha, and consciousness

Copulation, smoking pot, syllogisms, anachronism, Aldous Huxley, Jesus, education, Socrates, and shit

Camus, religions, intelligence, science, and integrity

Existentialism, William Blake, salesmen, gurus, social reform, drowning, floating, and Freud

Thought, literature, freedom, definitions, reading books, war, and mascara

memory, truth, feminists, the Devil, university education, government by lottery, and gopher hunting

Sobriety, drunkenness, cause and effect, Hume, faith, love, and misogyny

Science, history, interpretation of events, panic, fear, existentialism, natural life, and the social animal

DNA, the big bang, private property, consciousness, the senses, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the divine

A continuum, indifference, DNA, survival of the fittest, the state, and reality

the Razor's Edge, ethics, social reform, the print media, and intuition

Value judgment, zen, fear, anxiety, the labyrinth of life, free will, existentialism, physical exercise, and rewards

Maniacs, psychotics, the business world, thoughts, wilderness sports, and conception

Abstraction, ambiguity, sex, poetry, freedom, and a psychiatrist

present, past, life, Aristotle, cooking, the cinema, and a paddler

Capitalism, motivational selling, personifying the state, philanthropy, misanthropy, and Camus

Illusion, chess, fear, Ernest Becker and the Denial of Death, society, and austerity

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

Choices in life's labyrinth, God within, eastern and western philosophy, and transcendence

The soul, armchair philosophers, existentialism, Camus, hypocrisy, evolution, and thought

Politicians, preachers, pedophiles, Mao, puzzles, Ursula K. LeGuin, and instant zen

Cops, free citizens, knowledge, contemplation, misanthropes, reality, guilt, and insanity

A subterfuge, third-world countries, dopamine, activists, and Icarus

Aldous Huxley, perfection, cats, choice, the will, and Colin Wilson's Outsiders

Antipodes, dopamine, death and nothingness, fashion, Aldous Huxley, and smoking

Puritans, capitalism, education, somnambulists, travel, and being unemployed

Aldous Huxley, William Blake, Lenin, Alan Watts, Socrates, Kafka, and quotes

Eastern mysticism, Descartes, Saint Theresa, action, misanthropy, and God

Insanity, makeup, nose-jobs, body hate, computers, and the Raja Vidya

William Blake, surrender, the word, newspapers, fiction, Tom Wolfe, and new religions

Determinism, free will, God, experience, happiness, and translation

Alumni, a fool, a judge, William Blake, and the absurd

To personify something, serendipity, salvation, and the self as actor and audience

The second coming, the messiah, democracy, birth, death, and value judgments

An animal, a plant, addiction, cogitation, Frank Zappa, the paranoid, and a spectacle

Christian heretics, other religions, seriousness, the game of chess, and play

Camus, the Rebel, a man's outlook, indoctrination, and the substantive verb

Pure experience, irrelevance, mortality, morality, and being here now

Intoxications, absurdity, delusion, neurosis, despair, and the existentialists

Personality, Nazies, neurosis, a confident person, happiness, Barbusse, and a myopic

Reality, Kant, the Golden rule, pragmatism, William Blake, and necessary hypocrisy

Gunter Grass, the Tin Drum, neurosis, William James, and means and ends

William James, inspiration, stoic acceptance, intuitive knowledge, and atavistic intuition

Monism, pluralism, fear, morality, enemies, logic, and intuition

 

 

 

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