…because they were. What my reading matter was telling me was hot, which was basically the village voice back then. And I in Sartre, in is it being and nothingness? I can't remember. Anyway, makes this amazing statement. Nature is mute. This is the end of…

…to be here let's go up here has to be some kind of healing there can only be so much of this existential angst. Well you see Sartre, he came up to a tree, you said he put his finger on the tree and he says he said life is absurd because I cannot…

…your consciousness into the tree you are supposed to pay such tremendous attention to the tree that it came to find you. Yes, Sartre said nature is mute, which is to me one of the most amazing statements any 20th century philosopher has made in terms of…

…If the 10 000 things come and confirm you this is enlightenment. Now I wish one had been around to mention this to Sartre. You know in the 1930s they might have understood that the germans were at their border. Well we could have avoided a painful…

…this from my own intellectual journey when I was 14 15 and 16. The world looked very bleak and so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary French Existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms with it…

…because I was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said I can't believe it that was all I could say.…

…once during a riot people dropped a banner off a third floor dorm balcony that said it was a quote from jean Paul Sartre. We cannot transcend marxism until we transcend the conditions that have created it and in a way we cannot transcend the social,…

…denied and it reaches its ultimate culmination, just as an example, in the kind of statement such as was made by jean Paul Sartre, the French Existentialist who said: nature is mute. You understand what I mean. Nature gives no clue he tells you. Man is…

…is. And I, as I said I was raised Catholic. I spent a huge amount of time desacralizing myself reading Camus and Sartre and Nietzsche and Husserl and Merleau Ponty and positivists, and dabbled in marxism and was a hardcore materialist. But life lived…

…away that when you lift the veil then the screaming elf hordes come bounding in and when I did it I was a fan of Sartre and Camus and jean genet and situationalism, all this weird kind of European 20th century spun down, tired out stuff. I was not a…

…have mapped or been to and yet we don't have a full picture. I mean I would like to know what would jean Paul Sartre have said, what would Nietzsche have said, what would Wittgenstein have made of this? I mean all these people based their lives and…

…meaningless. That's now off the menu. It ain't meaningless. The trick is to figure out the meaning. But nature is not mute, as Sartre suggested that it was, far from it. I mean nature is the matrix out of which we come. Therefore if we can understand…

…be here let's go up here there has to be some kind of healing there can only be so much of this existential angst. Well you see Sartre he came up to a tree, you said and he put his finger on the tree and he says he said life is absurd because I…

…your consciousness into the tree, you were supposed to pay such tremendous attention to the tree that it came to find you. Yes, Sartre said nature is mute, which is to me one of the most amazing statements any 20th century philosopher has made in terms…

…If the 10 000 things come and confirm you this is enlightenment. Now I wish one had been around to mention this to Sartre you know in the 1930s they might have understood that the germans were at their border. Well we could have avoided a painful…

…into these places was as orthodox as you can imagine. I mean it went from a Catholic upbringing to an embracing of Sartre, Camus, Artaud, all those modern people in black leather and darkness who are putting out the European line. And I discovered, and…

…trip and I was trying to figure it out. Shopping in the supermarket of ideas of the time, reading Camus, reading Nietzsche, reading Sartre, and all these people are a huge downer as any of you know who've read them. The entire tone of modernity is just…

…after another. If it's not Hannah Arendt on the triviality of evil, well then it's Carl Jaspers on something else, or Sartre. It's just horrible, horrible stuff. So I became aware through Huxley that there was this other possibility and Huxley always wrote…

…bad little boys of science. You only have to avail yourselves of these shamanic tools to rediscover a nature which is not mute as Sartre said in a kind of culmination of the modern viewpoint: nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf, and the way to…

…matter, that we are lost in a universe that has no meaning for us, that we must make our meaning this is what Sartre and Kierkegaard, all those people are saying that we must make our meaning. It reaches its most absurd expression in Sartre's Statement…

…colorful bric a brac of late roman thinking, what you have is a thoroughgoing existentialism completely compatible with jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and the kind of intellectual despair that characterized the post world war Ii Generation in Europe. Heidegger…

…this from my own intellectual journey when I was 14 15 and 16. The world looked very bleak and so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary French Existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms with it…

…flat earth myth. It isn't a flat earth but a mute nature. That's the myth that the dominator culture must keep in place. Sartre Actually said this he said nature is mute. Therefore the world gives no compass for the formation of human ethics. This is…

…denied and it reaches its ultimate culmination just as an example in the kind of statement such as was made by jean Paul Sartre, the French Existentialist who said: nature is mute. You understand what I mean. Nature gives no clue, he tells you. Man is…

…streets of Berkeley and someone had left a banner down over the front of a building. It was a quote from jean Paul Sartre. It said: socialism will not be transcended until we transcend the conditions which created it. True history even more true and at…

…because I was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud I was a jerk. And I came down from it and I said I can't believe it. That was all I could say…

…then grew out of that into atheism, into agnosticism and by the time I got to College I was reading jean Paul Sartre and Husserl and these people and pretty much the main had followed my intellectual ontogeny had followed historical phylogeny and I had…

…any of these ideologies which permit this kind of thing. I mean I come out of jean genet and existentialism and Sartre, a very much more mainstream, down dreary western approach. These things do not require belief to sustain their existence. You may…

…living in cities or something like that that nature becomes silent. On the question of the transcendental, you know jean Paul Sartre, when he formulated his philosophy in the 50s, said: nature is mute. Therefore man can only look within himself for any…

…Well, so what I'm offering as a counterpoise to that is this notion of provisional models. Nature is not mute. This is what Sartre said: nature is mute. He was another one of these people who pushed this existential line in one form or another. Nature…