Knots

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I hope they are not so schematized that one may not refer back to the very specific experiences from which they derive; yet that they are sufficiently independent of 'content', for one to divine the final formal elegance in these webs of maya. He has re turned with observations, insights and formulations which seem quite pertinent to the lives of thousands of devoted readers. And by failing and failing, again and again, to undo the Knots mean folks keep tying up again - and getting up again from the dust of our defeated rebooting each time, knowing there IS a way through it all - we WILL succeed. Actually to the already superseded and already cured, it could be embarrassing to witness those traps. If you take it humbly and try to muddle through, you will see the Light of Morning - as long as you have Hope, and Love.

Originally published in 1970 , Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. The awakening that invigorated young people around the world in the late sixties was now bearing fruit in the staid adult world of traditional disciplines.

Sometimes just being able to look from the outside and see what the pattern is can allow us to pick it apart or even to opt out. To grasp this dense and difficult book one must be willing to follow Laing in his spirals of descent.

But these poems are startling and revealing in their simplicity; in their assertion that any one of us may find themselves in situations which feel impossible because they have no right answer.He considered that in the future we would view schizophrenia as, "one of the forms in which light begins to break through the cracks in our all-too-closed minds. It also illustrates how easy mis-communication and working through assumptions can frame how we may come to catastrophic conclusions. published in hardcover in 1970, this is the First Mass Market Paperback Edition, First Printing, from Apr.

In a series of poems varying in length, Laing lays out the excruciatingly illogical thought patterns that we all go through in as simple a manner as possible, almost like paradoxical equations. I'd bet a neuroscientist somewhere has by our time used a CAT scan or some other wonder to map a human mind thinking this way thus forming what appears beautiful recursive cascades. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This particular book is unique in that it is such an accessible book of poems, yet it reveals many of the ways Laing believed ordinary people tie themselves in knots.Sometimes you are certain that you understand what he means, but after a moment you realize that it is far far away of what you thought it is, you don't know what he means, maybe he doesn't mean anything, maybe it is for you to give a meaning to the knot, and maybe only maybe you can find a way to untie that knot if only you could find it between those perplexing, mysterious, baffling lines. Be that as it may, when I ended my bitter tenure under much more experienced and cynical arbiters of law than I, I still would not recant.

Knots is a logical breakdown of every argument possible, based on how one's identity is affected by others. But I had had an ‘intuition of Being’, a vision of a Clear Space where ALL the Knots would be loosened.

But it's also got the ability to make you deeply reflect on the nature of human interaction - between you and your parents, your lover, yourself. But whole cities have fallen to the weakness of a good soul, as they fell like dominoes to little King David. So many layers are used to arrive at a single point that at a glance, the entire book would appear absurd.